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2012 · God game · Indie

WorldBox

WorldBox is the ultimate god simulator and sandbox game. Create your own world or destroy it using different powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands and sail to far continents. Towns will rebel, empires will fall. It's your choice to help or watch them fight.

Released
24 September 2012
Platforms
AndroidLinuxWindowsiOSmacOS
Genres
God gameIndieRole-playingSandboxSimulation
Developers
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Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Sandbox
Languages
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and 13 more
Time to beat
6.5hmain story36hcompletionist

About

WorldBox is a 2012 sandbox game by Maxim Karpenko. The game allows the use of different elements to create, change, and destroy virtual worlds as well as civilizations using powers given to them. In the game, players can make and destroy while handling the "politics" of the world.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The game's main feature is the ability to create worlds with different creatures and landforms, using godlike tools known as "God powers" provided in the game. These are divided into several groups: World Creation, Civilizations, Creatures, Nature and Disasters, Destruction Powers, and Other Powers. Conversely, the game also allows the destruction of worlds, ranging from explosives to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and acid rain. Populations can also be reduced with hostile entities, illnesses, etc. Worlds can also, as of version 0.21, go through "ages", which can affect biomes and creatures, both negatively and positively.

Many creatures are able to create civilizations (humans, orcs, elves, dwarves, and humanoid animals). Such civilizations can grow, declare war on each other, make alliances, and suffer rebellions. In the game you can force different kingdoms to rebel, ally, or go to war.

Development

Russian game developer Maxim Karpenko started working on the game back in 2011, and published the first prototype on Flash in the same year. In 2012, he released it on Newgrounds. He continued working on the game for several years, and released it on Android in December 2018, with the IOS version coming in early February 2019. He proceeded to work on the game and released it for Windows in October 2019 and in December 2021 it released on Steam.

Reception

Graham Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun wrote: "I'd probably had my fill of WorldBox after around 4 hours, but it was a happy four hours." Joseph Knoop of PC Gamer wrote: "It's funny how much WorldBox shares with big strategy games, despite not presenting an ultimate goal to the player, and almost always ending with a boredom-killing nuclear bomb. Watching the borders of a kingdom stretch, retract, and suddenly disappear tickles a part of my brain that really likes to be tickled. Considering WorldBox is about to become an Early Access game on Steam, I'm eager to see what other maniacal tools get added to the toybox."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Android2 October 2018Worldwide
iOS2 February 2019Worldwide
LinuxAlpha10 October 2019Worldwide · Worldwide 2 December 2021
WindowsAlpha10 October 2019Worldwide · Worldwide 2 December 2021
macOSAlpha10 October 2019Worldwide · Worldwide 2 December 2021

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