Post by Lord Ba'al on Oct 11, 2013 22:19:07 GMT
Though I have no doubt that people will want to leave their own (witty) interpretations of what Godus is in this thread, I shall start it off by presenting a somewhat official answer to the question.
Godus is a game currently in development at 22Cans. It is the new brainchild of Peter Molyneux who has the intention of reinventing the godgame genre with it. The project was crowdfunded through Kickstarter around the end of 2012. At the moment the game is in the beta testing fase. Recently it has been released on Steam early access. In the game you play a god having various spells/powers at your disposal. You have a certain piece of terrain over which you have influence and within which you can use your godly powers. There are also other gods/players who are in a way competing with you. Your main power is to shape the land as you see fit. To be able to gain power you have to receive belief from followers. There are also powers like meteor strikes, tidal waves and other natural-disaster-like events.
That in a nutshell is Godus. I shall leave it up to others to present a more detailed analysis.
Godus is a game currently in development at 22Cans. It is the new brainchild of Peter Molyneux who has the intention of reinventing the godgame genre with it. The project was crowdfunded through Kickstarter around the end of 2012. At the moment the game is in the beta testing fase. Recently it has been released on Steam early access. In the game you play a god having various spells/powers at your disposal. You have a certain piece of terrain over which you have influence and within which you can use your godly powers. There are also other gods/players who are in a way competing with you. Your main power is to shape the land as you see fit. To be able to gain power you have to receive belief from followers. There are also powers like meteor strikes, tidal waves and other natural-disaster-like events.
That in a nutshell is Godus. I shall leave it up to others to present a more detailed analysis.
It's like "Spore 2" for me. Great potential but really bad implementation. By the way, Spore was the game that completely changed my gaming behavior - since then i never bought a game full price. Then came kickstarter and finally Godus.
