Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim

I wanted so badly to RP as an evil corporate overlord who's only goal is profit and domination, but the idiotic public relations system makes it impossible to truly do that. It's not even the profits that suffer, its your approval from the games board of directors. Unless you go with a management approach with the liberal options thrown in, it's incredibly hard to recoup public approval losses because having them enters you into a negative feedback loop that makes the board kill you, ending your playthrough. If there's one thing I hate management games doing, it's pigeon holing you into a specific starting strategy, and the dev clearly wants you to interact diplomatically until you have an inordinate amount of money, however that isn't clear until later. cringe game, kind of repetitive, save your time.

This is one of the few indie games which I randomly found back then while sailing the high seas. I loved the release version and I kept in my external HDD to have a run of it every couple of years. And the time to replay it has come again and I said, you know what, let's buy the game. The developer deserves it for the hours I have passed playing it. The GUI,sounds and all the technical stuff are rather basic but the theme as well as the dystopian cyberpunk mindset which oozes from every decision is SO addicting if it clicks. The game isn't a masterpiece by any means, but it provides food for thought through the game events and it gives a nice POV of how it would feel to run a Megacorp like Umbrella Corporation. A solid 7.5/10

More flash games grown up. It is simple game play, however the theme carries it. So if you can play text games, and liked playing pandemic, you will love this game. However if you are a AAA player, not for you.

Spinnortality is a turn-based management game in which you try to control the world as a company with bribery, black ops and media. You have a choice of different victory options and strategies, so you usually play several rounds. The game system is fun and somewhat addictive. I don't agree with the author that capitalism is evil in itself and that the world can only be saved by introducing an unconditional basic income and collecting lots of taxes. A different future may look bleak in the eyes of the somewhat socialist author, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. In this game, it is only possible to have a girlfriend if you leave your company and do anticapitalist things. Which is a shame, as you are more or less immortal as long as you are in the company. A few more balanced characters would do the game good, but then you may wouldn't be "evil" any more, but just a normal human being, something that a CEO cannot be ;) Dominate their minds, before they dominate you.

Beatiful game cannot explain how much i enjoyed, a bit lefty/socialist in its understanding of things but then again that is what makes the ciberpunk genre works lol, remember folks companies make products that are consume in the ent by the people/consumers thats why more companies with less taxes are always better for the world and the general prosperity, otherwise we are back in soviet russia or the middle ages. cheers!

Example situation from my actual game: The board wants you to increase your public opinion, time limit 5 turns. To do that, you need an unlocked "perk" that allows you to convert media influence to public opinion bonuses. To unlock that perk you need corporate authority. To get corporate authority, you need to fulfill the random board quests. Hence, you can't fulfill the quest, and lose board rating (your "hit points", go too low and you will get [strike]shot[/strike] fired), also preventing you from accumulating the needed corporate authority to unlock these perks in the first place. You need to fulfill 3 or 4 quests to gain enough points to unlock one perk. None of these steps has any other way of being achieved, save random events. I couldn't really get into the politics part of the game because I was forced to minmax my income each turn by checking all my products in all countries and relaunching them if their revenue becomes too low. It's almost a spreadsheet simulator. As someone else said in their review: The game is fun while you learn the workings in the tutorials. Playing the game itself is tedious.