Half-Earth Socialism

I cannot for the life of me figure out if this is a good critique of socialism, by making it seem like a good idea, or if it is just a game which thinks socialism is a good idea, and the gameplay presents the opposite. The political parties in the game all have terrible viewpoints, from consumerists to environmentalists none of whom are nessacerily trying to bolster your cause. There are also no elections in this game and the parlament never changes with your policies, meaning there are no reprocussions to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ people over until they are ready to revolt. The emissions system is poorly explained, the projections for emisions have no time scale so you cannot plan around the future, and the production methods are pretty terrible at showing you what the impacts of your actions are. The bar system for the impact of each production methos is also unclear, and the resources in the back sometimes change the outcome overall. The game is also littered with the developer's (or original bookwriter's) politics, and has very limited options on social/economic policy besides "one child policy". It also disregards labour as a resource overall, and industry in general is not a factor, meaning that constructing mega projects is only dependent on political capita, which is often gained through reducing the population. This game gives the sense of socialism being good by avoiding any uncomfortable topics related to a command economy, and misrepresents the largest causes of climate change, while ignoring any ways to fix it besides "men bad" and "fuel bad". While the negatives of fossil fuels are everpresent, the game gives no option towards synthetic fuels, and treats biofuels like they are the devil. Production methods never improve, or are made more efficient, and their innate characterists never progress with any techological changes. Overall this game has a clear ideology it supports, and ignores any possible counters, both environmentally, economically, and politically. Art is cool tho, well done on that. I also did play it to completion in 2.7hrs so not that much gameplay either.

Its a negative review because the whole experience is badly programmed and very unfactually biased. Regarding the bugs: - no matter wether you abolish oil or dams early on...for some reasons the negative effects may still trigger. -space is....gamebreaking? The fuel demand is so insane that it will decapitate you towards the end. Not going to space is the only way for me. -the terrorist attacks, once triggered, never cease. Which is feeling way off. Regarding the non-fact based bias or alternative facs or how you wanna call it: -nuclear is apparently too complex for humans. The fusion project will fail. You will use floating windmills no matter what. -feminism is a cornerstorne to saving the climate and men are destroying it. i dont know what the common perspecive here is but i deem men and women equally responsible for both the destruction or the preservation of earths natural recources. general: -the premise is interesting, thought a lot of things are rather clunky to use. -the graphics are nice and fit the setting, thought they are absolutely underutilized. -Its a railroad towards a windmill/hydrogen society that does not leave earth and is too dumb for certain technologies. -the message is obviously intended to be "empower women and protect the climate" but the result is more that we can either choose between becoming a spacefaring civilisation with room to grow or a stagnant one that sticks to earth.

Fun political sim, tricky to get the hang of at first but once you've got it down it feels pretty natural. Not to mention an EXCELLENT soundtrack. A few suggestions on how to make it even better: -Allow the player to keep playing, even if they achieve all of the climate goals early. This is my #1 wished-for change, and I think others would agree. -Fix certain world events occurring even after their root causes have been rectified - ones that come to mind are the +5 Biodiversity Pressure event as a result of lots of dams, multiple cycles after hydropower production has been turned down to zero; and the events noting the waning supply of oil and uranium popping up when the world does not rely on either (although, the latter event is useful if you want to research thorium power) -Maybe provide the player with a mini-tutorial on how to re-implement/upgrade completed cards (it's not super intuitive without one) -Maybe a more climactic end/victory screen? -Fix fullscreen (on Linux) -Fix the Posadist's graphics not loading (could just be on Linux) -Fix things like negative fuel demand and integer underflow bugs Additionally: -Fix it so that the simulation can't be hilariously compromised by the player repeatedly re-executing finished projects (doesn't always happen but can occur occasionally)

Pseudointellectualism isn't cutting it anymore. There is a level of signaling on display here that is blush inducing. This feels like a collection of philosophy majors (at best) cobbled together a haphazard collection of historical/theoretical social projects and made a fairly linear strategy game out of it with a surprisingly large amount of RNG that kind of adds nothing gameplay wise. Are we subsidizing our tuition when we found out the job market is garbage? Perhaps. Look I am a socialist. I am very liberal. I consider myself woke. I feel capitalism is a detriment to society and I want the individual to be treated with fairness and compassion despite race/gender... But not 2 sentences into this game and we are already acting like capitalism is this alien other force "inflicted" on humanity. Like it was a demon from another realm. Not a machination of man or a fundamental force of the natural world, but some sort of unnatural evil conjured by what I can only assume is Illuminati demonologists. It's failings are many: - Socialist Utopia? Where? This is just a deus ex machina for not dealing with global politics. This is entirely a haphazard collection of social/ecology projects presented with vary degrees of care. (i.e. all the care went to philosophy) - There is no real research on display here. CO2 emissions (by industry) do not seem to be linked to reality. - There is a heavy leaning on ancient concepts that have long fallen to disfavor for very real reasons (why are we talking about population control?). - I don't think the group knows what an accelerationist is... They are not "just" tech bros... also what do you imagine freeing industry from capitalism means? makes absolutely no sense. I think you mean freed from regulation but that also isn't what an accelerationist is... I just don't even know where to go here it's just so fundamentally misunderstood. In this case the accelerationists already achieved their goals... - Please take a single course on globalism. I feel like 90% of these games coming out with globalist concepts seem to not understand what it means to have a world spanning society. Why are we talking about Fanon? Many of these concepts are decentralizing and de-homogenizing humanity, but also somehow contributing towards your global suprapower's success... - Ah yes, you addressed the patriarchy by pretending females hold access to exclusive science the male mind can't grasp. Truly profound. - Hydrogen (eff off with this crap) - Space elevator (eff me how lazy can we get) - Space colony (eff me more what are we doing... so lazy) Look Beecarbonize just does this better, is more engaging and better communicates objectives and concepts. Sure they aren't the same but... this game has the bones of a crunchy sim but really just plays like a card game. There isn't really any crunch here. They both are activism sinkholes that do little to educate and mostly act as a vent for the anxiety of a confused generation. They are also both free might I add. If the gameplay were better and there felt like something big to explore here, I'd have probably given it a recommend. As it is, it's a mid little puzzle with an unappealing UI and a confused understanding of it's own material.

Good game that shows some of the many options we have to fight climate change, assuming the main barrier of capitalism is removed.

this game is simultaneously extremely good and interesting, and also so cryptic that it is driving me mad. It actively feels like the game is fighting against me, random events will trigger when i'm not using the processes they are tied to, i cant get into the puzzle because i cant even know what something i do is going to actually do. the game will say i'm decreasing emissions with every action i take, the game will give me a pretty little graph that says "hey look you picked good options" and then with no explanation emissions shoot through the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ roof with no way of fixing it nuclear power just isn't an option for some reason, despite real life nuclear being like the only viable way to solve the brownout issues the game seems to also care about outside of magically inventing a super-battery i wanted a cool puzzle, and the game failed to deliver. this isn't a fun puzzle, its a weird cryptic puzzle with a solution you need to either brute force or look up, that hides most of what you actually gain from any technology or political alliance it feels like they sacrificed the actual gameplay for the sake of promoting political ideals. which pisses me off because i agree with Socialist ideals, i think Capitalism provably sucks and we need to change things, but packing your ideals up in a wonky puzzle game that has no grasp on what is actually feasible IRL just isn't the way to show people how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the current system is 9/10 game in concept, would have loved if it actually delivered on any of its gameplay as it is 4/10, go play https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593030/Terra_Nil/ instead

LibSoc slop with a weird hate-boner against nuclear energy for no reason

Before playing this game I saw a review which said that this game was the epitome of champagne socialism and dismissed it as an overreaction after playing this game I would like to apologise to this person. Somehow every single resource including ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ water somehow goes extinct the moment the world began warming, there are no viable alternatives to fosil fules and the moment you agree with an accelarationist an eco-terrorist is going to come into your room and rape you over the desk. 5/10

Game is completely balanced around being communist propaganda. Every single thing is completely ridiculous, and playing it is actually quite strongly like a fever dream. None of this stuff would work the way the game indicates it would, quite literally everything is completely incorrect in terms of what the consequences for decisions would be. Reminds me of a satirical game where the entire point is that none of the decisions do what you would expect them to, except the game tells you what the author evidently expects it to. Honestly, was pretty sure this was satirical at first. An argument could be made for playing it just for the humour of how ridiculous it is.