Earth Must Die

It was a pleasant surprise for me to discover this game right when it launched, even though I only managed to finish it recently because of real-life responsibilities. I fully recommend it—it’s fun, genuinely makes you laugh, and it’s exactly what you need at the end of a long day, no matter how busy you’ve been. Overall, it was a really enjoyable experience and a lovely surprise as a game. Highly recommended!

This is a playable critique of post-Brexit Britain, the US, and demcratic backsliding in Europe and beyond under 21st century technofascism, aided and abetted by brainwashing media empires, technobajillionaires, depraved functionaries, servile apparatchiks and, well, the proles, who are always up for another round of: "this guy says it like it is!" My problem is that the satire often falls flat, and the main character does not undergo any character development, which is definitely something the game hinted at, thanks to Milky's insistence at, maybe, just maybe, reforming the Ascendancy. But in the end, the writers must have decided that a happy end shall not be had. Earth does indeed die. This makes the game punk, I suppose, in the very facile, "no future" kind of way that is egregiously irresponsible, given the fact of what we are up against, IRL. Which is fine. It's a vision for what an anarchic comedy game can aspire to. Is the actual critique that people who think they are the Main Protagonists who should be on the chopping block first? Or that robots that nurse our egos are working for the downfall of the human race? I mean, "No More Robots" sure sounds like a dead simple slogan. Ultimately, it would have made for a better game if VValak did go on a journey that changed his POV and governance practices. Because it sure as hell looks like we won't have the same thing here on actual Earth unless unite the planet. Under human, non-machine rule. Democratically controlled, of course. Whatever that democracy might look for eight billion people...

Absolutely Amazing! I am so grateful for the way the newer Adventure Games like this one are using the right kind of whatever you use that makes the game operate so smoothly once it is all loaded. No glitching, no lag, no worry that I will have to open it from my documents files, haha. As for the game and storyline, I was sad it ended. It was a really great story. Funny, too and yes, I got the references. There were a few issues, but they were being tweaked as I played so that will be no problem in the future, I'm sure. One thing, though. If you decide not to have the comments autoplay, when you open the Milky guide, you have to leave the guide and click all of the dialogue off the screen so you can read the whole page.

This was so much fun to play. I could have been waaayy more chaotic with my choices, but that just means a second playthrough in future. Twist of an ending. A lot of tongue in cheek perspectives. Loved it.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong with this game, but it feels at best .. unfinished. Not sure if that's what the low price is meant to reflect? Anyway. As a fan of point-and-click games, the controls were the first unpleasant surprise. Then, there's the definite lack of rhythm, animations, and proper transitions between anything, to the point where some cutscenes look like stiff rehearsals / become downright uncanny. I don't usually mind this too much, but the cartoon style definitely shifts expectations in this regard. Finally, add to that the lack of interactive elements and puzzles - I won't comment on the rest, as that's more a matter of preference - and you get a game that I can only stand to play for 15 minutes every few days.

The writing is pretty funny at most times, and the puzzles are good... MOST TIMES. The protag won't touch anything, making the point n' click unique, but as the puzzles get more complex, you can see the flaws, specially for timed based puzzles. The games "Milkapedia" systems forces you to "read" entries to solve puzzles, but just opening the entry is enough. In the end, it's an overall good experience, even though I did not like the ending.

It's a dark comedy satire point and click adventure game. That being said, its not funny. The satire is either too on the nose or too over the top to be clever. The jokes revolve purely around either: 1) Profanity 2) Sex 3) LolRandom 4) Gore It's not that those four things can't be funny, in fact, they usually are. But this game tries so hard to make you laugh that it just feels... aged? Like this would maybe be funny to a middle schooler in 2016. It can't decide if it wants to be gross-out funny, just gross, or just funny, so it falls short on everything and feels like hearing a juvenile make a sex joke. It's just gross and weird. The story is nonsensical and underwhelming. The only character who isn't over the top annoying is the companion, Milkie, and the devs knew that when they made you do the ending. Which is a really, really bad ending too. The art is almost fun, but the aspect ratios and stretching and, again, grotesqueness of it make it just fall short. Some characters are fun and stylized like a 90s cartoon, most are just downright ugly, and have no thought behind them as their animations clearly display. There are numerous issues with asset layering throughout the game (in the naughty store in the microworld you can see the stairs before you open the door to the stairs, mosquitoes phasing through poles). For a point and click game also, you do need the keyboard an unfortunate amount. Even further on the controls, it's astonishing that a game that is only point, click, and move in cardinal directions is this clunky and generally just frustrating to control. It's a minor inconvenience in the early game, but quickly becomes the only gameplay loop the game has: ♥♥♥♥♥♥ controls that make you need to redo puzzles over and over. Looking at all the positivity this game has received genuinely has me thinking I missed something. The voice acting is... alright, I guess. The MC is over the top annoying to listen to and the only person I want to hear more from is, again, the companion, Milkie. Overall, the comedy is bad, the artstyle is kind of gross, the story is awful, the voices are okay. At least you can 100% it relatively quickly (even though the achievements are rather... unintuitive. You'll need a guide). Not worth anywhere near $16, I somehow feel scammed even though this was 1/12th of a Humble Bundle purchase of $12. Do not recommend unless its sub $5 or in a bundle with other, better games.

I tried hard to like this game, but it's got too many problems. The scaling of the art assets looks quite bad at times. The humour is hit and miss. And it doesn't help that the timing is often off, with lines delivered with a slight delay spoiling the jokes. Trying to play over Steam Link with a controller was clunky and not worth the bother.