Evil Genius 2: World Domination

Tedious: defined. I really want to like this game. I really liked Evil Genius 1, and admittedly its been a long time since i played it, but the main gameplay loop of #2 just doesn't feel rewarding. All the missions are very linear and slow. The global stage/globe view is a joke: it could just as easily be a text menu with checkboxes. But sometimes the checkboxes are disabled, just to make the game feel longer. The lair mechanisms are nice, and i like the creativity of the base building, but it doesn't make up for the tedious mission mechanism. For example, when getting new minion types there is no reason you shouldn't be able to do them in parallel, but instead the game forces you to: 1) make sure there isn't heat in a specific region and/or clear it, 2) kidnap someone from the globe by sending your own minions and waiting minutes, 3) waiting minutes for the kidnapped minion to get to your lair 4) wait for you to interrogate them, 5) wait while a minion builds a new training appliance, 6) wait while a new minion of this type gets trained, 7) repeat for the next minion type. This is the general loop for every mission, and it quickly gets boring and repetitive. Fun concept, made tedious.

Its a excellent lair-builder, but it can get old very quickly with the busywork it requires you to do.

I know this will read as contradictory because I have over 150 hours here, but this is really not a very good game. The focus on operating on the 'world map' draws your attention away from the base, and nothing very meaningful happens in either sphere - this game is a series of waiting for resources to refresh, and once you're a few hours in it stops feeling like a lair builder and starts playing more like a phone game - activate a mission that sends troops to do something (no gameplay there, just click yes), wait until it finishes, then do it again. There's an overabundance of resources and space, but nothing interesting to fill it, and the pathing does not encourage sprawling bases. It just seems to miss every target it aims for. I don't regret obsessively hunting down all the achievements but this game is just below-average enough that I wouldn't recommend it.

Sehr gut

I've played this game for about 200 hours on playstation aswell as my time on steam and i cannot recommend this game enough it is my favourite game of all time. I love the humour and the graphics are great and very well optimised. The gameplay can be sluggish at times and the game is not perfect however its just got a certain amount of charm that i haven't found in any other game. Overall i would highly recommend this game especially when on sale to anyone who wants a semi-layed back game thats just fun

Great game, but with 0 updates it gets boring after you beat the game for the first time.

Love this game!