http://godvillegame.com/Simply put, this game is more or less my childhood. I made an account when I was 11 years old,(I found it on Magistream - It's still going, apparently) and enjoyed it all the way until now.
What is Godville? Well, from the title, you will obviously expect gods to be main characters of the game; They are!(Sorta) - You are a deity in this game.
But Ghuz, there are hundreds of games where the player is a god, give us something new!Remember the "Sorta"? Because there is another crucial main part of the game - your hero. Yes, the game is an RPG-
Great, another MMORPG, you had us excited. But you said you made an account when you were 11, so it must have a catch to it so that it survived until now.You didn't let me finish. It's also an idle game.
*Audience sighs audibly. Someone is loudly banging their head against the wall. People are starting to pack up*
An idle game AND an RPG. Have you found the most overdone game ever? Hell, from the -ville name, it might as well be P2W.Not THAT kind of idle game, mind you. Those are called "incrementals"; This is a game where the Hero is absolutely controlled by the AI and does his own business as long as you log in once every week.
*People turn around and decide to remain to hear what is left of the presentation*
Sounds original. But why would we play this game if it plays itself?It's puntastic; Deliciously so - Terry Pratchett on a bad trip levels. Everything from monsters or artifacts is a pun, reference or joke. And all the content? By now more than half of it has been created by players; And growing - Players are actively adding their own humorous content every month(More or less) Heroes are alcoholic idiots who will spend thousands of gold coins on stupid things without a second thought; Don't get tricked, though, the game is laughing with you, not at you.
*Audience grows interested*
Interesting. But puns and all, if it's just another parody of an RPG, what will keep us interested for more than a month?The game puts Olympic objectives for your hero to complete - A temple made out of pure gold bricks, and ark made of gopher wood, getting your animal to level 30 and building up a retirement fund - The game unironically takes years to complete.
*Audience starts to get excited*
Cool! But what does the player intervene in all of this?The deity can actively pursue either encouraging or punishing the hero - the former making the hero lean towards "good" personalities while the latter makes him become more "evil" - Yes, an alignment system - with in-game effects. Evil heroes do more damage and good heroes heal themselves. The more long-term objectives the hero completes, the more things the deity can do.
*Audience starts to lose their minds*
Is it all free?The game does use a resource called "godpower" - which is burnt up easily. A player can buy more godpower for a price, but the godpower is not guranteed to give the purchaser a huge advantage. It's more of a gamble than P2W.
*Audience goes hyper*
THIS IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUEBut wait, there's more! You can actively add your own lore to the Godwiki, provided it is silly. Simply pick a monster that's not been described and go wild.
*Audience starts yelling incomprehensibly, suddenly, a blue flash of light engulfs the room and all present are now dressed in togas, have olive wreaths around their heads and float*
Presenter: Welcome to godhood!
Audience:
EEEEEEEEEEEEKPics to build up hyp:
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- There, is however, a very small problem with the game.
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