If you're a fan of city builders, then buckle up, because we can exclusively reveal that Imagine Earth, a sci-fi city builder from indie developer Serious Bros. is heading to the Switch on 9th May, 2024.
Originally released on Steam and Xbox to positive reception, Imagine Earth combines laidback strategic gameplay with themes of sustainability as you look to establish new homes in the cosmos in the year 2084. Corporate greed has led your own planet to ruin, so it's your job to build propserous cities in a more eco-friendly, sustainable manner.
You'll be dealing with meteors, space pirates, assimilators, and your own cities' pollution and emmisions which, if left to run riot, may lead to dire natural disasters. It certainly sounds like a good alternative to the likes of Cities: Skylines, Airborne Kingdom, and SteamWorld Build, and we love just how many potential threats you'll need to juggle to build a working, living city.
Let's check out the features:
- Go Beyond: Complete the multi-mission story and embark on fresh space colony adventures, including a competition mode against up to five AI factions and a freeform mode with procedurally generated planets
- It’s Not Easy Being Green: Face a range of ecological challenges, from chemical spills and oil slicks to melting polar ice caps and terribly destructive natural disasters caused by the player’s planetary exploitation
- Space Invaders and Traders: Make friends with cooperative colonies and alien tribes inhabiting some discovered planets and fend off hostile alien invaders using shields and lasers in tower defense gameplay as they try to wipe puny human colonies off of the map
- Sustainability Among the Stars: Successfully fight corporate greed and civilian demand for growth and resources by researching new technology and maintaining a healthy ecosystem to become a sustainable civilization
What do you make of this one? Will you be adding it to your Switch library? Let us know your thoughts with a comment in the usual place.
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Here's the link to the eShop Page of Imagine Earth: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/imagine-earth-switch/
Sounds really preachy, wow. I don't think I want lectures in my 4x game.
I think it's more realistic than preachy. You just can destroy or evolve planets like in the real world
Not into these science fiction builders and still waiting for a type of town builder with cozy graphics that's a mix between farming sim and city builder. Instead of a person taking over a farm, you arrive as a kind of Sheriff in this small run down town that's full of litter and kind of depressing. Your aim is to bring back beauty and find the balance between nature and town living. Every time you catch someone behaving bad, you get nature and building points to improve the town. It could start with kids spraying graffiti on walls and when you catch them, they have to do community work like planting trees, repainting walls etc. Then you have residents dumping litter and when they are caught they help clean up and so on. Eventually the run down town is turned into paradise.
I would love to see a new Sim City that has all the options the last Sim City had as well as the option for larger maps ala Sim City 4. Want to throw a world with other city lords and a congress set up for diplomacy, trade agreements and the like? sure. it would just add an extra dynamic to the game.
Imagine this, build a city but you also have to do resource management ala command and conquer 3 along with city defense and troop deployments when needed. Or you can turn off military and go full city management mode or turn that off and go RTS mode. That would be the dream game.
StarCraft 2.0 Switch????
It saddens me to see this, of all things, be called 'preachy'. Glad to see this coming to Switch and that there are game devs out there that care enough about building a better world that they make a game about it.
What better way to make a difference than doing what they do best - making great games?
@FantasiaWHT Agreed, the whole trailer was about sustainability. It doesn't seem like you can play without being "green", which limits your play options. It did have some interesting things you have to defend against.
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