Evil Genius 2: World Domination

14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.

14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask

The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 18: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 843 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

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.