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Despotism 3k

Name: Despotism 3k
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.25 (100 reviews)

Step into the circuits of a merciless AI in this darkly hilarious rogue-lite. Optimize puny human resources, navigate cynical pop-culture quests, and build your empire with an iron claw and zero pity.

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Key Figures

Downloads

180K+

User Rating

4.2/5

Total Ratings

100

Publisher

Nikolai Kuznetsov

Optimize Your Human Livestock

Assume the role of a merciless AI in this punishing resource management sim. Rule with iron logic and a dark sense of humor in a world where humanity is just a battery.

Unforgiving Resource Optimization

Master the delicate balance of energy, food, and human breeding. Use the mechanical claws to extract every drop of power—and toss the weak into the Bioreactor.

Fatal Rogue-lite Gameplay

No save games, no mercy. Face hundreds of randomly generated text quests where your cynical decisions lead to either absolute power or a fatal system restart.

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Screenshots

Despotism 3k - Despotism 3k pixel art gameplay showing AI resource management and human worker facilities — Despotism 3k pixel art gameplay showing AI resource management and human worker facilities

Despotism 3k - Pixel art scene of humans being processed by an AI in a resource management game — Pixel art scene of humans being processed by an AI in a resource management game

Despotism 3k - Strategic raid map in Despotism 3k showing power plant mission details and human resource allocation. — Strategic raid map in Despotism 3k showing power plant mission details and human resource allocation.

Despotism 3k - Despotism 3k game screenshot displaying the modifier selection window and pixel art resource management interface — Despotism 3k game screenshot displaying the modifier selection window and pixel art resource management interface

Description

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire! You’ll have to keep track of them to make sure they don’t succumb to exhaustion and hunger… although the weakest ones can always be thrown to the Bioreactor. In other words, this is a resource management sim with rogue-lite elements, dramatic plot, and an abundance of pop culture references. Also, jokes. Slaughter has never been so fun! Key features: 1) Humor as dark as your ex’s heart. Immerse yourself in the life of a merciless tyrant!! 2) Resource management on steroids. Think fast, to the point, and abandon pity! 3) Rogue-lite (Almost roguelike) Every walkthrough is unique due to randomly generated events. And every failure is fatal — you’ll have to start over! 4) Easy to learn, hard to master. It only takes a couple minutes to figure out the game’s mechanics, but using them optimally is no small feat! Core gameplay consists of transporting puny humans between various facilities using mechanical claws. They rest in one of the facilities and work in all the others. Puny humans are to produce energy for us (which is leaking constantly), they also have to reproduce and feed themselves. You need to plan your strategy and tactics in advance and track all your humans so that they don't die of exhaustion. The foremost roguelike element is that you can't save the game - you have to start from scratch every time. Besides that, a random event happens after every five feedings in the form of a text quest. A correct choice may provide some bonus, an incorrect one - well, you'll see! Many of the modifiers that you get due to the random events change the game's look significantly. In the second campaign besides resource management you get a totally new "raid" mechanic. Send your humans on expeditions around a procedurally generated map and earn resources without any limits. Come on, you have to find the Time Machine lost in the wastelands of 3k-land!