Games Revue

Superstruct: Join a Mass Experiment in Futurist Speculation with the Game “Superstruct”

The year is 2019, and a report has just come out proving that the Earth’s population is likely to suffer catastrophic collapse by the 2040s. Energy costs are rising, a new pandemic called ReDS is devastating the globe, homelessness has reached epic proportions, and the internet has become a miasma of spam that prevents everyone from communicating. Now it’s up to you and a few thousand other futurists to save the planet by quickly inventing new social structures that can stop all our civilizational “superthreats” before it’s too late. This is just a broad outline of the rewardingly complex plot of a new MMO called Superstruct that the Institute for the Future launched last week.

It doesn’t sound like the kind of game with a lot of pretty graphics, but for a change of pace it certainly looks interesting.

More of a thinking man’s MMORPG than a poopsocker’s one.

Serious dedication from gamer Prepared who plays 36 world of warcraft accounts at the same time

This man certainly is dedicated to his “craft”, with a multi machine setup, dozens of accounts (36 to date) he’s a one man raid waiting to happen (And in fact this seems to be his goal) who spends thousands of dollars a year on his “habit”.

Well, as long as he’s having fun…

Travian – Browser Game – Romans, Gauls, & Teutons

Travian is a browser game with a world full of thousands of users who all begin as the leaders of small villages.

Here is how it plays out

Your village could look like this later

At the start, you have only a small village with a single building.

You will find out how you upgrade your village to become a powerful and flourishing city.

The game plays directly from the browser without any downloads, and is a live persistent world with thousands of active players . Give it a try!