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• gamedeal user

  Sep 16, 2014

  This is a pretty faithful reproduction of the old school game Populous, with the addition of worlds that brings in a touch of Populous: The Beginning. For new players, this is a God game. You can manipulate the land to allow your autonomous citizens to build bigger houses, generating more mana and allowing bigger God powers, such as fire, lightning and marshes. The general idea is to collect totems containing new powers and to wipe out your opponent! There are plenty of islands to keep you occupied and you are even able to partially amend the way later levels start once you complete them (this affects the islands for everyone as the changes are saved online) You don't directly control your people. In fact there are only 3 actions they can perform: Settle (where newly 'born' people create buildings to increase population growth & mana rate), Gather (they head to the marker that you place as one of your powers), Fight (pick a fight nearby). Combining gather with the other two actions gives you enough control as you need. You can also force people out of houses, but this leaves the house open for invasion. The game is much harder than I expected. The AI seems to very rapidly build up it's strength (I'm not sure how, but expect I'll learn with time) and begins attacking early. Thay naturally also have access to God powers and can lay waste to your houses if you're not careful. I've just started a world with all 4 tribes on it (apparently all against me!) and it's pretty much chaos! Fun, but chaos! The new update has introduced the option to turn off the 'kindle' option (which allows you to produce people from houses early), this makes the game much more playable and less of a click frenzy. The latest update has also improved the UI in terms of allowing edge scrolling (phew). In addition there are some keyboard shortcuts but only for high level selection of the group of spells, not individual ones. Click sensitivity also seems to be a bit off, if you don't click the upper part of the spell icon it doesn't register. One gripe is that the ESC key turns off fullscreen mode, rather than the expected standard of opening a menu and skipping the intro (which you apparently cannot). The terrorforming tool (which you use constantly) is normally available and automatically selected (e.g. launch some fire and you switch back to terrorforming immediately), except sometimes it's not (e.g. lay some marsh and you apparently have nothing selected). So there's a bit of inconcistency which may just be a bug that gets fixed later (hopefully). The graphics are simple pixel art, but nice to look at, check out the pics & video! It can be unclear at times exactly which square your cursor is on, due to its shape, and as a result launching powers at exact points can be tricky (although exact aim doesn't really matter *that* much. The map edge is tricky to visualise because there is a blurred effect, particularly at the bottom of the screen, and anything built there is slightly obscured (again not *that* bad but could be clearer). The power effects are fairly reasonable although things like fire and lightning storm can obscure things behind them. The sound effects are basic but well suited to the feel of the game. There is no music, surprisingly, but I never have the music on anyway. Find yourself some good tunes to listen to and forget about in game music! So in summary, it's a good remake of the classic Populous game, fun and challenging, looks and sounds ok. The latest update has made the game more playable, with the edge scrolling and no kindle option. For the price it's definitely worth it. I expect it's going to bring many hours of fun and frustration and what more can you want!!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2015

  I am the god of flatness. Both the sea and the mountains are an abomination. My people worship me because they know I will bring prosperity. Fertility in flatness. My people are a people of order. They spread my cities of flatness across every corner of every world and I flatten the way for them. Soon the entire universe will be my flat shade of blue-grey.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 18, 2015

  I wanted to play more before I gave a review but since the sales is gonna end in two days, I'm just gonna yell out to my friends. THIS GAME IS ONLY 0.69$!!! (so get it cause it's better than a TF2/CSGO skin X3) ----------------- OK now. This game is super confusing....like for a while I was even stuck on the tutorial. Why? Well, I must say this game has a beautiful interface with nice looking colours and smooth menu animation...but, as our teacher would say, there is no focal point. Like everything is the same, white lines white words.... I mean it looks great, but for some reason I get lost in on the page, not knowing what to click on. Sadly , this is a confusing game with a not really reliable tutorial and there is no guides in the community to teach how to play. So far I can tell you this you click on the ground to make new soil. ----> bigger houses Bigger houses -------> stronger people put a "way point" -------> on enemy's house stronger people --------> go to "way point" stronger people --------> take over enemy house click on the captured house ----> bigger houses Bigger houses -------> stronger people REPEATS WAY POINT you make a "way point" (which basically gathers your people to a place you point out) Point at enemy buildings ------> people walk over there Now make sure you change the "gather to waypoint" to " look for fight" Or else, your people "betray" you , and go to the enemy side. They will also betray if they are weaker than the enemy. ABOUT THE GROUND (They dont tell you, but the land has to be FLAT to expand your houses) SO DAYMN!!!! LIKE If you click by accident the wrong place, your palace turns back into a ****ing hut, alright? AND now I'm getting dizzy trying to tell the difference between low land and high land. ----------------- My Main point is.. Who gives a **** It's ONLY 0.69$, so JUST BUY THE ****ING GAME :3 Thankyou
• gamedeal user

  Nov 14, 2015

  For heaven's sake, if you loved Bullfrog's Populous series throughout the 1990s you absolutely must try this. It's a faithful adaptation of the original; essentially a fan remake for modern PCs. Give it a whirl, it's on sale at 90% off (until 16th Nov), or try an early version for free online: http://www.reprisaluniverse.com/site/playreprisal/
• gamedeal user

  Nov 18, 2015

  Picked this up because of the parallels to Populous. Looked really fun to play, but the controls are awful compared to any modern RTS, even for an indie game. -Scroll speed is extremely slow -Screen size too small/can't zoom out -Base building is counter-intuitive (you have a choice between building and attacking. That's it.) -You need to have a flat area to have a base expand, but the terraforming tool is so hard to use when shaping a mountainous region. Just give me something that says "MAKE THIS PART FLAT" -No hotkeys -After using a spell/waypoint, the cursor goes back to terrraforming immediately, making you accidentally terraform all the time.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 10, 2015

  Take Populous god-game design and merge it with the artistic pixel graphics of a Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery. I am very happy I picked up this little gem. Pros: Slick modern retro design Solid gameplay Tiny game (space wise - takes up less than 200mb) Nice touch of story Good sound effects Fun
• metalmeal

  Jun 4, 2022

  It's fun for a bit, but once you figure it out the game becomes very formulaic and you find yourself wasting 20 hours just for there to not really be an ending. The end of the game feels the same as beginning except you have more tools that allow you to end things pretty much instantly. I bought it because of nostalgia for the flash game and I played and completed it for the same reason. I don't regret the time I spent on the game, but I don't think I'd ever do it again. It helps I got the game on sale.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 14, 2019

  Want to like, but can't. The gameplay does remind me of Populous, but only enough to wish I still had a pop.exe even if I had to run it in a 320x200, 16-color EGA video mode. It sticks close to feel of the original, rather than introducing any new "quality-of-life" features. • Rough, sharp graphics can be hard to look at. • Unclear graphical elements confuse gameplay. • Abruptly and without notice, tutorial switches from hand-holding to hands-off. • Unskippable intros and animated menus feel very slow. • Running under Linux with Proton gets horrible lag (2-5FPS) on level 5 . It seems like there's a lot of potential here, though. These could be superficial issues, patched away. But with no updates for 4+ years...