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Apocalypse Inc. – Simulation Game Review
Apocalypse Inc. is a Simulation/Strategy game from PLAYESTA LIMITED, first launched in 27th August 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 953+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Apocalypse Inc. Stand Out
The time of the apocalypse has come!
Decide the fate of the planet.
Your goal is to destroy all of humanity in a hundred different ways!
● Collect sins on the planet
● Uncover disasters by reading their description and
● Choosing the strongest
● Summarize the destructive power of disasters
● Stop mankind's rescue operations.
● Be the best destroyer!
The game contains the ability to create an apocalypse at different times of mankind in 14 scenarios:
2020
► Ecology
► Space
► Wars
2013
► Monsters
► Mystic
► Anomalies
2113
► Technology
► Globalization
► Astronomy
► Food
1666
► Diseases
► Time of kings
► Magic
Make your choice wisely!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Apocalypse Inc. is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd January 2021
Recent improvements include:
Fixed minor bugs
Download & Availability
Apocalypse Inc. is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Apocalypse Inc. on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Still holds up to this day and we first downloaded this app in 2020.
Great game but give it another update.
Fun game great time killer with lots of thought put into it.
Didnt mean to buy but its fun.
We wasnt expecting this much strategy to be involved.
Lol kinda fun youre like a minigod.
This game is lots of fun and has a great concept.
This is probably one of the best apps that we have played. We love how it kills time and boredom.
At first we thought this was just going to be a Plague Inc ripoff, but its very different with a lot more scenarios. Nice way to pass the time.
The game is super fun and has TONS of room to grow and we love it love it love it.
It's a great game deff worth the money even tho plague inc is only .99 but it's challenging and fun we recommend it.
Of if the best games Id have the pleasure of playing. Way too much fun -RF HONTS.
You can pick how you want the world to end you make a decision it closes other options and you can sabotage the relief effort its really fun and it is incredibley easy at least for us.
Its a tough game u have to make the right choices and we like that good job on the game make more like this if you guys can we would really appreciate it.
Though the basis of the game is morbid its fun to play and pass time.
Its good we do like it but we dont like that its kind of copying plague inc.
We like the concept that it has and we like that the game is improving it definitely added way more scenarios than the last version and we like the concept.
We really like this game although we think animations for things like metors should be added besides that the game is great.
We personally enjoy this game thought-provoking exciting intriguing and choice driven amalgam of pure fun if you like to have a game, which we do and we recommend this game thoroughly enjoy it.
So we just beat the game and its amazing we love it but there isnt enough levels, we beat it in and hour and it would be awesome if there was a sandbox mode too.
We little bit to hard levels like we cant even past the first one but, other than that its awesome.
Ive tried so many ways, but it DOES NOT WORK.
As a fan of the other games by this creator we were a little disappointed in this one. Dont get us wrong its still good but its very simple.
At face value; the game gives you extreme plague inc vibes. You collect bubbles on the planet and then invest them in different categories just like plague inc and try to destroy the world before humanity saves itself. The similarities completely end here. Dont get us wrong, this game is a good game to just turn your brain off to and play around with various scenarios of how an apocalypse would impact the world except you could hardly call it a game. The core mechanic of the game is selecting what you want to happen for the apocalypse, which has pre-determined effects. What we mean by this is if you go down one path, it is literally exactly the same every time you go down it 5 million people die for example, but people do not continue to suffer from the effects of the disaster. Furthermore, this means you can spend 10-15 minutes in a game and find out the path you went down doesnt kill 100% of the people needed to win, meaning you have to restart and do something else, because once you reach the end of the path, there is no way to go back and there is nothing to do but wait for humanity to save itself. However we must admit we have played this more than we thought we would, which still isnt a lot mind you but we have. Dont look at this as a game, look at it as just looking at interesting and creative scenarios someone made for an apocalypse that may or may not kill everyone. There is realistically zero gameplay.
The idea of this game intrigued us, so we had a bit of an impulsive decision to buy this game. Im having a few regrets with it, though. The game feels very linear, and although you do have choices, they really do not have any different outcomes. With every new event, x people die, and your goal is to kill y number of people. Its a nice concept, but it would be better if the game was more similar to something of Plague Inc. Im not saying to make a copy, but at its current state, the game is honestly not worth paying for.
Its good but the time span needs to be slowed down on their defensive and more sins need to pop up quicker but still good just takes forever and tons of trys to beat a level.
When we explode a continent, we wanna see that continent go BOOM.
Great game but need more control over which branch to select.
The game has potential but unlike Plague Inc. You feel burnt out by the 4th level. Monsters, Aliens, Disease, Zombies are locked way to deep into the game and it just doesnt feel rewarding or worth the time to unlock them. The branching path systemis a JOKE. You will end up in situations that will automatically end the branch and all options to where you cannot do ANYTHING at all and will automatically lose. Also unlike Plague Inc. Theres barley any relevant news in the game to the chaos thats happening nor is there real indicator of how well youre doing besides some countries turning red and a population meter. Gameplaytheres really nothing besides the Branching Path system we mentioned earlier. You cant view countries, progress, make your own disaster or really anything to keep you invested. Besides collecting Sins to unlock more paths there really isnt enough to really say anything. Overall Apocalypse Inc despite being a good attempt and concept just fails to capture what makes Plague Inc. Fun and doesnt innovate anything into the Destroy the World formula. The game needs to be free to play and its just not worth the money.
We started playing as it seemed interesting, but the concept quickly seemed to fall apart. If you chose the wrong path do you just fail? We got enough sins to get the path we wanted complete on all three sections, however as they have a set kill count instead of over time we just got stuck and could do nothing but wait to lose.
We dont recall there being satellites in the 1300s correct us if Im wrong. The storylines are good but we would like to see the effects on earth, not it turning red as people die.
We thought this was a game but its essentially just a pick your own adventure book.
Times are not running at the same speed at the end of the game.
You used to be able to win but now it has become impossible since the AI slows down the death rate the closer you get to zero while speeding up the cure rate exponentially.
We have done every path on war and it still wont let us get passed it.
Doesnt give you options to pick other branches, results solely based on RNG.
The older version of game allowed for much more creativity and in this version the rescue scenarios are super overpowered and too fast even after you supposedly sabotage them.
We cant imagine why this app costs money. Its a terrible knock off of plague inc except there is less randomization, only a few scenario paths you can go down, and not really much variety. We wish we could get a refund.
Not worth the price tag. The game is trying to be Plague Inc. Without all of the charm and challenges that made Plague Inc. Successful. A basic game session of Apocalypse Inc. Involves you tapping on icons that randomly generate on the globe to farm sins. You then invest sins into various nodules to advance your apocalypse scenario with the goal of reducing the human population to zero. However, the game provides little to no information on how you are doing. It is impossible to judge which of your decision will reap the most benefit to you. Youre left to test out all options until you hit the right path that will net you human extinction. There is no skill or decision-making invoked. Just pure brute forcing the system until you win. Unfortunately, the game does not let you refund or re-do your path. Once you select a path, youre stuck on it until you reach the end as the game locks you out from all other decisions for the rest of the session. If you choose a path where it allows even a single human to survive, you will lose the game and youre forced to wait until humanity beats your apocalypse. An unnecessary waste of time. This is most apparent, and most aggravating, in the third scenario of the game, War. Many of the options will not be enough to let you win the scenario. When you do manage to pick the right scenario there is still a chance youll lose the session because its so late into the game when you achieve the winning result that the game is near to beating you and the population is not falling fast enough. The game is also riddled with typos and grammatical error, which honestly gives us a dim view of this game and developer. To us that reeks of laziness, that the developer was trying to jump in on the Plague Inc. Name to make a pretty penny. Atheist people is such a ridiculous phrase. Do yourself, your wallet, and the App Store a favor by skipping this game and letting it fade into obscurity.
Do not buy this game, it has no real choices. The game feels more puzzle-like, as there is only one correct sequence of choices to win each scenario. Your money would be better spent on anything but this.
Not enough options, pretty restrictive gameplay. Total waste of $1.99.
The might a good board game, but as an app it's a bored game.
Do not spend the $2.17 after tax on this game. We were expecting a better version of plague inc with more plans for devastation and different a much bigger broad on routes. First off the 3D view of rotating earth is nice but why are you gathering sins and theres a limit to those sins you gather. You have to spend them fast and spin the earth around to collect the sims faster just to hit the cap at 16. You cant take the time to see the earth coming to an end because you are so focused on watching out for the sins that pop up. All to just hurry and pick the next drastically zoomed in scenario tree to choose from. Games easy to win and not complex. Dont waste your money.
Really no reason to buy this game. The ads will have you believe there will be some greater depth of visuals but its beyond boring. In the relatively extensive amount of time Ive been playing this it just occurred to us that Im literally just spinning the globe around and there are no exciting events happening at all. Game looks good though, just wish the ads were a little more honest about the true content.
3rd level (War) the counter for the population glitches and stops. Therefore making its unbeatable. Even with the news stories indicating imminent doom. Thanks for stealing $2.
This was so fun to play , need to make more scenarios we already beat the game Couldnt stop playing it! Please make more scenarios so we can keep playing.
Apocalypse at first seemed like a rip off of other games (only because we saw it on facebook) but thats not the case, its actually a very fun game that has many scenarios we can all enjoy, 10/10 would recommend to friends and anyone else wanting to experience a end the world type game.
Cool concept with simple/fun gameplay. Hopefully there will be more scenarios coming soon.
Bruh you dont see them go away or anything but its fun to control the world in different ways makes u think about the pandemic were in now.
Honestly when we saw this game we thought, ok, another plague inc. Copy, then we realized its not, even if a lot of elements are similar different modes allow different strategies that are similar to it but seem much different at the same time.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.3
- Size: 266.27 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: [PLAYESTA LIMITED]()
Last updated: 22nd January 2021 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: PLAYESTA LIMITED