But at least you have numbers. As a land animal, you’re allocated a certain number of family members for your pack, and they’ll do whatever you do, be it eat, attack another species or move to a location. So you aren’t stuck running from larger, deadlier things like in the cellular level. On land, players have backup.

This whole section, however, is not very enjoyable. It revolves mainly around creating a strong enough creature to take on whatever adversaries lie in the way or missions there are to perform. Point and click is the all there is. That, and hoping that you can run away faster than more powerful stronger enemies.

 

 

After successfully learning communication, player’s species becomes capable of fighting other evolving species in tribes. This section is very similar to the previous one, where the tools (in this case, weapons instead of claws) you have make little difference. It’s possible to make friends with all the opposing tribes or to destroy them. Either way, only one type of weapon or musical instrument is necessary. After building up your tribe’s numbers, it’s easy to take out opposing tribes. It’s almost not worth it to be diplomatic because that is more work and less fun.

The civilization stage is the first that requires some strategy. It begins by asking what type of capital building players want, which has no relevance to anything except aesthetics, and then has the city mine for dust. Collected dust acts as currency for the cities, allowing the building of homes, factories to produce more mines, entertainment centers to keep the city residents happy, and military power.

 

 

That military power is what’s really needed. In order to succeed past the civilization stage, you must take over the world, either by diplomacy or force. Like the tribe stage, diplomacy takes a lot of work and reaps little benefit over time while full-scale war against single cities is highly effective. Over time more advanced weapons and vehicles can be used to take out the enemy faster, but in the end its about how numerous your forces are verses theirs.