Absorbia
A downloadable game for Windows
You are the ruler of a mighty kingdom of the ancient times. Your people thrive in prosperity, until a cosmic entity arises to disrupt the peace, creating a hole into the oblivion that yearns to engulf the whole city.
Now you must lead your people, defining the best strategy to craft enough magic runes to sate the everlasting hunger of the abyss before the realm is devoured.
How to play:
When you start your game you'll be able to see in the top right corner all the resources of your city. This includes 5 different runes, which serve as currency, and the happiness counter of your citizens.
At every turn there are three actions you can take:
- Ask the oracle: The oracle will tell you what the whole will require of your city at the end of the turn. Knowing this can help you be prepared to fulfill its wishes. But the oracle requires a price, displayed at the action button, and that price will be paid in the current rune currency, displayed at your top left corner.
- Improve the infrastructure: Improves your rune crafting infrastructure, making your craft more runes of all types at the end of each turn. Building that improvement will also have a cost, of the same day currency shown at the top left corner.
- Make workers work more: As a desperate measure, you can try motivating your workers into producing more runes. But beware, differently from the other actions, the cost here will be of citizen happiness, as they will get more worn out.
After doing all that you want, which can be nothing too depending your on your strategy, the "End Turn" button can be pressed.
Before you start the next turn the entity will require of your city a sacrifice. Your kingdom will have to feed it with a set of magic runes, in a quantity to be specified by the whole's hunger.
Every time you fail to meet the required amount of runes to feed it, it grows even larger. If it grows 3 times it will get big enough to engulf the city, causing your realm to fail.
If you wear out your workers too much and they get unhappy, they might also throw you out with a rebellion themselves.
If you manage to keep peace in the city until the 5th turn, you win, for now, as the entity will retreat satisfied.
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Install instructions
Download .EXE file and run to start playing.
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