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• metalmeal

  Jun 4, 2022

  It's fun for a bit, but once you figure it out the game becomes very formulaic and you find yourself wasting 20 hours just for there to not really be an ending. The end of the game feels the same as beginning except you have more tools that allow you to end things pretty much instantly. I bought it because of nostalgia for the flash game and I played and completed it for the same reason. I don't regret the time I spent on the game, but I don't think I'd ever do it again. It helps I got the game on sale.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 16, 2014

  This is a pretty faithful reproduction of the old school game Populous, with the addition of worlds that brings in a touch of Populous: The Beginning. For new players, this is a God game. You can manipulate the land to allow your autonomous citizens to build bigger houses, generating more mana and allowing bigger God powers, such as fire, lightning and marshes. The general idea is to collect totems containing new powers and to wipe out your opponent! There are plenty of islands to keep you occupied and you are even able to partially amend the way later levels start once you complete them (this affects the islands for everyone as the changes are saved online) You don't directly control your people. In fact there are only 3 actions they can perform: Settle (where newly 'born' people create buildings to increase population growth & mana rate), Gather (they head to the marker that you place as one of your powers), Fight (pick a fight nearby). Combining gather with the other two actions gives you enough control as you need. You can also force people out of houses, but this leaves the house open for invasion. The game is much harder than I expected. The AI seems to very rapidly build up it's strength (I'm not sure how, but expect I'll learn with time) and begins attacking early. Thay naturally also have access to God powers and can lay waste to your houses if you're not careful. I've just started a world with all 4 tribes on it (apparently all against me!) and it's pretty much chaos! Fun, but chaos! The new update has introduced the option to turn off the 'kindle' option (which allows you to produce people from houses early), this makes the game much more playable and less of a click frenzy. The latest update has also improved the UI in terms of allowing edge scrolling (phew). In addition there are some keyboard shortcuts but only for high level selection of the group of spells, not individual ones. Click sensitivity also seems to be a bit off, if you don't click the upper part of the spell icon it doesn't register. One gripe is that the ESC key turns off fullscreen mode, rather than the expected standard of opening a menu and skipping the intro (which you apparently cannot). The terrorforming tool (which you use constantly) is normally available and automatically selected (e.g. launch some fire and you switch back to terrorforming immediately), except sometimes it's not (e.g. lay some marsh and you apparently have nothing selected). So there's a bit of inconcistency which may just be a bug that gets fixed later (hopefully). The graphics are simple pixel art, but nice to look at, check out the pics & video! It can be unclear at times exactly which square your cursor is on, due to its shape, and as a result launching powers at exact points can be tricky (although exact aim doesn't really matter *that* much. The map edge is tricky to visualise because there is a blurred effect, particularly at the bottom of the screen, and anything built there is slightly obscured (again not *that* bad but could be clearer). The power effects are fairly reasonable although things like fire and lightning storm can obscure things behind them. The sound effects are basic but well suited to the feel of the game. There is no music, surprisingly, but I never have the music on anyway. Find yourself some good tunes to listen to and forget about in game music! So in summary, it's a good remake of the classic Populous game, fun and challenging, looks and sounds ok. The latest update has made the game more playable, with the edge scrolling and no kindle option. For the price it's definitely worth it. I expect it's going to bring many hours of fun and frustration and what more can you want!!
• gamedeal user

  Sep 22, 2014

  Better than any recent god-games, lovely pixel graphics with beautiful sound effects
• gamedeal user

  Sep 23, 2014

  If you're craving a God game that is a spiritual successor to the 1980s hit "Populas", then Reprisal Universe is what you're looking for. First, and most importantly, the programmer is actively monitoring for feedback and tweaking the game to improve the overall experience. Secondly, it provides interesting innovations that warrant grabbing this instead of just going back and playing the original Populas game. Third, and most important, it's not by Peter Molyneux. (That may seem like the least important element, but go give Godus a look over and really dig into the commitment and how many of those commitments have been broken-- then come back and compare against this game where the developer is actively engaged with his community. The difference is night and day.) The game ramps up steadily in difficulty. (plus) The game is at its core a God game. (plus) The AI is not overwhemling in any map, yet offers a decent challenge in the latter maps. (plus) This was not always the case (in the initial release, the AI over utilized one of its free powers resulting in an unplayable game-- but the dev fixed this in the first week of player feedback.) It's inexpensive (plus) It has a lot of campaign content (30 maps, plus.) It has an even larger number of "Universe" maps (not sure about the total, plus) Some of the negatives: This is a retro pixel game (negative for some, not for me) You have very limtied control over your populants/peeps (negative for some, not for me) No music (but new sounds that go with the game play, and you can always use the Steam Beta Music Player to play the original Reprisal Soundtrack, if you like. Negative for some, not for me.) Scrolling is rough (keyboard tapping required, or a newly introduce mouse scroll which still needs some work. This is a negative but the dev is working to improve the overall experience so a plus for me.) Map visibility is limited (this is a negative, but it is an homage to the retro Populas UI. There are some differences. Some find this frustrating. I can let it go.) The only item that is a real negative for me, the author has committed to working on a fix. (The most likely is center-mouse-button-click-and-drag to move the camera around.) So I don't really have any problems with the game. I'd give it a 8.5/10 personally. And, I expect further development will be done to address remaining issues. If you're looking for the spiritual successor to Populas, or just looking for a God game to scratch that itch... Buy this, it'll be a number of hours of retro fun. (If retro is not your thing, give it a pass... but I'm telling you, you're missing out.)
• gamedeal user

  Oct 12, 2014

  Never played Populous before, but got into the web version of Reprisal back in the before time. The graphics are what first pulled me in, It's just so beautiful to stare at. Pixelated landscapes and Tilt-shift? You're god damn right I'll give you my $10. The game is quite difficult if you don't know what you're doing, which you won't until you trial-and-error your way through your new powers for a while. After that, it's smooth sailing (I imagine.) Try out the web version, if you like it, you'll enjoy this. If not, don't bother as they're basically the same game. This is just [b]more[/b] of that same game.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 1, 2023

  Ridonkulously easy once you know the way to tackle EVERY MAP. There is almost no variation, even if the maps are laid out differently. You just pursue the same steps and you are guaranteed to win. If you want a really high score, you need to keep the enemies hobbled but alive for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to let your people cover the entire map. This is a pretty faithful reconstruction of Populous from the golden days of gaming. However, Populous had many hand-crafted maps that you'd play (every 5 levels) with procgen levels sprinkled between. In this, the levels are all just higgledy piggledy. Because players can "leave a legacy" (i.e. use their 'legacy points' to alter the map for the next person), the maps swing from maddeningly easy (the previous player flattened half the map for you) to stupidly hard (the previous player left you on top of a mountain, while the opponent is on a flat plane). But... No matter the layout, the process to win is the same... Once you figure it out, the game just becomes a cakewalk. When that happens, it can be quite zen.. You just follow the pattern and win. In some levels you can win in under 60 seconds if you're REALLY fast on the clicking and accrue enough mana points in the first 30 seconds to unleash a firestorm on an enemy.. HOWEVER, THE GAME (AS OF 1/4/2023) IS BROKEN. IT IS NOT COMPLETABLE. * The universe ranking is broken, so your score doesn't matter. * If you save and quit midway through solving a planet, you end up being given the levels you already finished to play again when you next re-load, but you don't get to play the other ones. So, say if you save and quit at level 4 of 8, then you play levels 1,2,3,4, save and quit, and then when you reload you play levels 4,3,2, and 1 again in that order... weird bug! * Sometimes the screen just goes blank except for the minimap and UI... At this point, the only thing you can do is resign the island and start over and hope it doesn't break again. This happened five or six times to me. Annoying, but not catastrophic. The dev has recently updated the game, so it's possible (s)he broke it when they migrated to a new server, but if you're planning on playing this game... wait until you see some news to say that the above issues have been resolved. For that reason, I'm giving a negative review because I put in almost 70 hours to see the conclusion to the story, to find that the game's difficulty remains completely flat all the way through, and there IS no endgame because I never reach 100%, so I'm really disappointed. If the dev fixes the issues and I can get to 100% and see the ending, I'll change to positive.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 28, 2014

  Dare I say it... This game is BETTER than Populous. It does drop you in it at points, but not like a roguelike, where yo are supposed to figure stuff out, more like it has a basic campaign that teaches you the mechanics of the game, then the next time you log in, with no warning, you are faced with the "universe" screen. When you start in the universe, you have a new ability set, 'Rage' that you only discover a bit later on, it's based on aggro against you, and is different to Mana. I think that Amulets (items found in the world) may unlock it's abilities. XP is added, too - levelling up the destructiveness of your abilities. I 'think' it mostly gives them a bigger AOE, and gives your Heros more health, not that they need it. Bigger buildings spawn new tribesmen faster, and they are stronger. building size is purely dependant on the amount of clelear space around them, if they have room to grow, they do, instantly. So, The Review; I can't be botherd reviewing this. If you're after a God Game, to replace Populous, this is it. Just buy it. **The only real thing that annoys me about the game is that it doesn't introduce all the mechanics properly, and that the screen scrolling can be laggy, so I use the minimap instead.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 18, 2015

  I wanted to play more before I gave a review but since the sales is gonna end in two days, I'm just gonna yell out to my friends. THIS GAME IS ONLY 0.69$!!! (so get it cause it's better than a TF2/CSGO skin X3) ----------------- OK now. This game is super confusing....like for a while I was even stuck on the tutorial. Why? Well, I must say this game has a beautiful interface with nice looking colours and smooth menu animation...but, as our teacher would say, there is no focal point. Like everything is the same, white lines white words.... I mean it looks great, but for some reason I get lost in on the page, not knowing what to click on. Sadly , this is a confusing game with a not really reliable tutorial and there is no guides in the community to teach how to play. So far I can tell you this you click on the ground to make new soil. ----> bigger houses Bigger houses -------> stronger people put a "way point" -------> on enemy's house stronger people --------> go to "way point" stronger people --------> take over enemy house click on the captured house ----> bigger houses Bigger houses -------> stronger people REPEATS WAY POINT you make a "way point" (which basically gathers your people to a place you point out) Point at enemy buildings ------> people walk over there Now make sure you change the "gather to waypoint" to " look for fight" Or else, your people "betray" you , and go to the enemy side. They will also betray if they are weaker than the enemy. ABOUT THE GROUND (They dont tell you, but the land has to be FLAT to expand your houses) SO DAYMN!!!! LIKE If you click by accident the wrong place, your palace turns back into a ****ing hut, alright? AND now I'm getting dizzy trying to tell the difference between low land and high land. ----------------- My Main point is.. Who gives a **** It's ONLY 0.69$, so JUST BUY THE ****ING GAME :3 Thankyou
• gamedeal user

  Nov 10, 2015

  Take Populous god-game design and merge it with the artistic pixel graphics of a Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery. I am very happy I picked up this little gem. Pros: Slick modern retro design Solid gameplay Tiny game (space wise - takes up less than 200mb) Nice touch of story Good sound effects Fun
• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2015

  I am the god of flatness. Both the sea and the mountains are an abomination. My people worship me because they know I will bring prosperity. Fertility in flatness. My people are a people of order. They spread my cities of flatness across every corner of every world and I flatten the way for them. Soon the entire universe will be my flat shade of blue-grey.