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Everlasting Corporations - Spinnortality

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In a future of megacorps and artificial intelligence, it is your job to bring immortality to the board of directors. Spinnortality is a cyberpunk management game that was developed and published by a single man. In it, you run a global corporation that sells products in the hope of learning how to live forever and eventually ruling the world. The game is fun for a quick jaunt but is riddled with tedious micromanagement that hurts the late game. Despite that, I thought that Spinnortality was a fun take on the cyberpunk genre. Being a global corporation, the main mechanics of the game regard researching and selling technologies. The player will start by learning about social media and eventually be selling products that tell you exactly when you will die. To effectively sell the products they have to be marketed in one of the various regions. The key to making money is to link the right slogans with the right cultural beliefs. For instance, a slogan that promises a quick and eas...

Dreaming of Cults - Cultist Simulator

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Sometimes the world is not what it seems to be. A little digging shows that there is more to the world then you would ever expect. Cultist Simulator is a resource management, digital card game that was developed by Weather Factory studios. In it, you explore the occult as you juggle making enough money to live and avoiding being noticed by the authorities. It is a deceptively simple game that is enjoyable if you are willing to put in the time and effort. Cultist Simulator is a resource management game where each resource is a card. The player starts with some of each of the four main resources: health, reason, passion, and funds. Each unit of the resources that the player owns is represented as a card that they can move around the table. From such humble beginnings, the player can use action modules to interact with their cards. Combining cards in different ways and with different actions can produce new cards that the player can use. You continue to advance your resources unti...