Darwinia

Omegaman

<div class="IPBDescription">Game of the Freaking Year</div> <a href='http://www.darwinia.co.uk/' target='_blank'>DARWINIA</a>

Dowload the demo and prepare for the best PC game since Uplink. It's made by the creators of Uplink too.

Pulse

I tried the demo when it first came out. Aside from the graphical style, it was average at best.

Rellix

Got it when it came out, played through, definitly worth a good look.

I did find some rather easy ways to bypass a lot of difficult things in it tho, without cheating....more using my head.

It comes with full mod tools so should be some interesting mods out soon.

DY357LX

Is this actually out yet? I think I saw it on a store shelf somewhere but part of my brain is telling me that what I saw was in a dream........ odd.

DiscoZombie

I definitely love the style. I don't know how to get my darwinians to collect minerals to power the primitive refinery thingie though.

Sky

Promote one of them to be a leader guy, then make your darwinians follow him to a mine place. Remember that it's not enough to just right click next to the mine; the leader has to walk with the darwinians, or they'll just stop moving once they move away from him. The darwinians will automatically man the mines when they get close to them.

The demo was....interesting. Figuring out how best to fight the spiders and flying dragon things was fun, as was the "OH I get it" moment of inspiration when you realize the only way to expand to other "islands" is to sneak an engineer to set up the beacon thing without getting killed by the viruses.

Pulse

I actually might buy this game if I get confirmation that they actually fix some of the things that were broken in the demo (like most of the tutorial). While the "shooting things" aspect of the game isn't fun at all, I love the style of the game and I'm sure there's more to it than there was in the demo.

DiscoZombie

I agree. this is a good independent game company to support - Uplink was also really innovative and fun...

Cold_NiTe

Yeah I remember looking into this when Penny Arcade linked to it. Always nice to support independent games.

Sky

I think it's worth the $20.

Scythe

I got the full version and holy crap, it was worth it.

Such a great game, so many little nerd references, so original.

--Scythe--

Rellix

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The demo was....interesting. Figuring out how best to fight the spiders and flying dragon things was fun, as was the "OH I get it" moment of inspiration when you realize the only way to expand to other "islands" is to sneak an engineer to set up the beacon thing without getting killed by the viruses. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That level in the full game was made harder, thigns throw eggs that hatch to the bigger badder monsters....