Reus (Game)

Reus

GAME » on May 16, 2013

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A 2D god game for PC and Mac. It is the debut game of the Dutch independent studio, Abbey Games.

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Overview

In Reus (Dutch for 'Giant') players control a a planet who has control over four Giants: Rock, Forest, Ocean, and Swamp. Each Giant has a set of abilities that can alter the planet in various ways. At the beginning of the game, the entire planet's surface is a wasteland. The goal is to use the Giant's powers to cultivate life and civilization. The Giants can transform the wasteland into other biomes (Ocean, Forest, Swamp, and Desert) and then use other abilities to place plants, animals and minerals in those biomes to attract humans who will create a village there. The villages will build projects--a Granary, for example--which the Giants can help the humans to achieve. Completing projects unlocks an ambassador from the settlement which can ride on a Giant's shoulder and confers further powers.

Developments

Reus has a concept called Developments which works as an internal achievement system and also offers potential direction to the player. For example, one of the Developments is "Forest Tribe" whose unlock condition is: "Finish an Era with a Forest Village which has 100 Village Prosperity." At the end of a game, the game provides a list of unlocked Developments which count towards increasing the player's level. Many, if not all, of the Developments are Steam Achievements as well.

Giants

Each Giant can create a specific kind of terrain as well as add animals, plants, or minerals to existing terrain. Some also have destructive powers which can destroy villages. They also have several Aspect powers which are generally modifiers to an animal, plant or mineral patch.

Forest Giant Powers

Raise Forest
Fruit Plant
Leaf Aspect
Fruit Aspect
Hunt Aspect
Fertility Boost
Migrate

Ocean Giant Powers

Create Ocean
Domestic Animals
Growth Aspect
Herd Aspect
Crystal Aspect
Aurora
Monsoon

Rock Giant Powers

Raise Mountain
Precious Minerals
Advanced Minerals
Exotic Aspect
Noble Aspect
Seismic Aspect
Earthquake

Swamp Giant Powers

Create Swamp
Herbs
Exotic Animals
Toxic Aspect
Predator Aspect
Reaction Aspect
Muck Bomb

System Requirements

PC

Minimum

Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX10(R) compatible card with 512MB of memory
Hard Drive: 500 MB HD space

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