Religion inc. God Simulator

First up the obvious and unpleasant: this game is clearly “inspired” ( to put it mildly ) by Plague Inc. On top of that I could swear the map uses elements from Godus. Ok, now for the game. The premise is mildly interesting, but it doesn’t feel fully ready/ balanced. It took me several tries to win a game on the lowest difficulty. I found the active powers to be confusing and not super easy to use. Some of the in game mechanics feel like a mystery to me. The distinction between fanatics and enlightened is also not clearly explained, and to be honest I’m still not sure what it is. There is also a concept explained in the tutorial that conflicting ideologies will increase tension, but I have no idea how to tell if that has happened. There also appears to be some missing text in power descriptions based on what I saw in the update log, where some powers should boost “superstition” ( Plague Inc mutations ) and others should reduce it. Beyond polish and balance I think this game could set itself apart by leaning into the knowledge aspect. Showing historical tribes and cultures on the map is a nice touch. Pairing these and powers with blips of historical context, or even just Wikipedia links, might help that aspect shine.

Could be a bit better. It is a bit of a copy of pandemic and plague inc. I might get bored after a while. Also the term Eskimos is racist and outdated for sure. Perhaps you should do research on proper terminology. Hopefully you don’t offend anyone. I also notices some other names for states that are a bit iffy and might offend some people. Luckily I am not easily offended. But it is a game about religion. Some people who play this might actually be religious. And if they are of a certain ethnic background they might take offense. I hope the game improves. It is a bit to tappy tap like all those other app games for me. It has enough entertainment value to maybe replay once or twice. Then I would probably move on to something more entertaining and unique.

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My opinion on this game is a little off balanced due to the fact that the map is the only thing in this game that was truly spent on. I would like to have more diversity and color to the home screen, or maybe have different modes to simulate other religions like Judaism Christianity Roman Catholics and Muslim beliefs. Due to this game being directional hitting the main points of belief within the first 3 minutes of me playing I was able to get about 5m. people supporting my religion. I was on the hardest difficulty. But as I was saying this game is based on religion and the devs could get a lot of flak about it from other people from other races and specific religious belief systems, so in my case you should watch out for that. Other than that this game needs more updates and more details than from what it has.

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Converted world to 45% Fanatics/55% Enlightened - lose. Converted world entirely - no result. Added beliefs to increase F/E - ended up losing to Atheism despite complete absence of atheists in the world. Additionally, beliefs seem lousy compared to preaching - similar benefit, but beliefs cause atheists to start up, which is obviously much worse. Transmissions are also odd - this is obviously in the genre of Pandemic 2/Plague Inc, but I can have multiple countries 100% converted and the neighboring country won’t get ANY converts for a little while. That is NOT the case in the aforementioned Pandemic 2/Plague Inc. It also makes it much more difficult to combat Atheism when it can spread linearly, but my growth rate may hit a hard wall while my idiot converts try to get ONE person in a neighboring country to try out my religion. Good graphics and interesting mechanics, but the tutorial needs to be more detailed to explain the actual victory condition.

I’ve been playing for a whole day now and still haven’t won a single time, even on the lowest difficulty it’s as if it’s a puzzle constantly trying to find out which skill not to use and how to slow down atheism, I’ve gotten the world almost 100% converted but the rate of atheism would increase so fast I couldn’t acquire enough points to counter in time, I enjoy the gameplay and pace but it shouldn’t be this difficult in my opinion