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sistersorrow · 6 months ago

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Populous, the progenitor of the god game genre, came out in 1989

35 years later, in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-four, the genre hasn't evolved much beyond either being a wizard mayor or a cosmic baby sitter

#it's hard to really articulate what I mean #but god games don't make me FEEL like a god #instead I feel like I'm a sorcerer city planner who also has to run a daycare for little creatures too dumb to survive on their own #in the current year with games like Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld focusing so much on emergent gameplay and storytelling #it feels like the modern state of gaming would be fertile ground for a game designed to be a sort of myth generator with the player as God #also really odd that for a genre called “god games” religion barely exists beyond a few ways to harvest prayer mana #really feels like there's a lot of potential there but I have no clue what that would look like #games #god games #basically I want a game that allows me to larp the entire Old Testament #and end up with the sort of stories that would get posted to an r/shit[GAME NAME]says subreddit

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