Nuggets build their own homes, but most buildings need to be placed manually. The narrator-who-is-also-a-dick setup is pretty tired as it is, and it’s only made worse by repetitive and sophomoric jokes about Nuggets knocking boots. The tone of the narration is curiously reminiscent of Dungeon Keeper, which isn’t a comfortable fit for a game that is otherwise light and, typically, optimistic. They build a home and then, with some divine intervention, they start making babies, all too frequently accompanied by the increasingly exhausting narrator’s commentary. After picking a spot on the map, this duo sets about giving birth to civilisation. By the time they build their first Tudor homes (I knew the Tudors were aliens!), you might have already started work on devastating the environment. However! The technology tree is a bit of a mess, making you discover batteries and gas mines before your Nuggets - the species in your charge - even consider moving out of their stone huts. Right now, it only goes up to the Medieval era, slightly limiting the global impact of your civilisation. So while a single planet might not show off the game’s potential scale, it does reveal a little bit more about its depth. In The Universim, there’s still the threat of scarcity, but that’s also accompanied by ecological disasters. Oh, you chopped down all the trees? Now you don’t have wood. The environmental cost of civilisation doesn’t typically get much of a look-in, despite the vast number of games being churned out that focus exclusively on people building massive cities and empires. Mining gas causes smog, animals can be driven to extinction and the weather can become more and more unpleasant. Chopping down trees and expanding your city pushes the wildlife back and, if it continues unabated, can cause global warming.
If you spend hundreds of years pumping water from a lake, it could dry up. It’s arguably the simulation, not the size, that’s the real draw here. Those opening moments hint at its grand ambitions, of space travel and alien planets, before returning somewhere more familiar.ĭeveloper Crytivo is promising more than scope, however. Now, though, The Universim’s attractive galaxy is a backdrop for a single, randomly-generated, Earth-like diorama.
YOUTUBE UNIVERSIM LETS PLAY FULL
From that press of a button a brand new cosmos springs to life - a huge galactic stage full of worlds and civilizations for you to manage. It’s a god sim with more than a hint of Spore and good old Populous. This week, Fraser has donned the mantle of ‘deity’ in The Universim. Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access.
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