Despotism 3k

4.88K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 16
100K+
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Content rating
PEGI 16
Strong Violence, Strong Language
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About this game

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 indie resource management sim with rogue-lite elements, dramatic plot, and an abundance of pop culture references. Also, humor. 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!
Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on right side!
Updated on
Feb 10, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

4.64K reviews
Rebecca Watson
October 1, 2022
At last, a strategy management game worth the time you put in! Very tough, but if you pay attention, you can learn very quickly. Finished the first campaign with the easy chip and lots and lots of pause! The story was an absolute delight as well, with all the Easter eggs for those in the know. No IAPs either, which is sorely needed in today's game market. Overall it's a gem of a game for any serious and casual gamers a like. Give me moooore. Or is the butter a lie?
11 people found this review helpful
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konfa games
October 2, 2022
You want more? Try "Despot's Game" ;)
A Google user
November 20, 2019
Funny but difficult, sub texts are fun to read but when it comes to the resources and how they're made and used isn't very clear. One minute your fine and then the next all your food and energy have gone. This does need to be revisited. Other than that, it's pretty great, haven't been able to get use to it to be able to unlock the other game types.
15 people found this review helpful
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konfa games
November 25, 2019
Is a "Easy" chip available to you? It opens after several losses. It's much easier to play with him.
A Google user
July 12, 2019
love the game, its fantastic. I will say though that I can no longer play it. Im burned out! I've now perfected the first 5 days, can blitz through them easy. however theres 2 hurdles i cant get over - level 5 upgrades (the 1400 one) and random events. The level 5 upgrades take so much energy that getting them is almost impossible. The random events are brutal and while they were hilarious at first too many of them are unavoidably bad and mess you up.
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konfa games
July 13, 2019
Puny human! If it's hard for you, use a "Easy" chip. No need to scare players, the game is not as difficult as it seems ;)

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