A downloadable game

Earth has become a hot and dry place. The struggle for food and water has led to a breakdown of civilization and caused devastating wars and destruction. From the ashes of modern society, the survivors have organized themselves into tribal structures and are fighting each other for survival in the barren wastelands.

Devolution - Global Warming is a real-time strategy game that requires quick tactical decisions and a good long-term strategy.

Your goal is to unite the survivors of the apocalypse. But there are others who are trying to do the same. To win, you have to defeat all your opponents or at least stay alive longer...

System Requirements:

This version of  game was created for MS-DOS.  It can be run in MS-DOS either on a real machine or an in emulator like DOSBox.

Although not the minimum requirement, for the best gaming experience we recommend at least 486DX-33 MHz and running the game from a hard drive.

The game requires a graphics card that supports VGA and a Sound Blaster or Adlib compatible card for music.

The game was ported from the Commodore 64 to MS-DOS. The C64 is available on itch.io here

Features:

  • Real-time-action with adaptive game speed
  • 1-2 human players, up to 4 players in total
  • 7 unique maps
  • 3 different difficulty levels
  • An additional game mode / more customization options
    (compared to the C64 version)

You can download a digital version of the full game and the manual here for free (see downloads below). 

In addition, poly.play is releasing a limited collector's edition of the game. The collector's edition consists of a beautiful cardboard box containing a printed manual, a poster and other extras

For details visit: https://www.polyplay.xyz/

For some extra information about the game and upcoming projects visit our site: https://www.windigo-design.de/wp_projects.html

Download

Download
devolution.zip 244 kB
Download
devolution_manual_all_systems.pdf 846 kB

Comments

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Looks good, reminds me a lot of Burntime. I found that after a few minutes it stops responding to all keyboard input so I need to kill it. Playing in DOSBox Staging.

Burntime was actually an inspiration for the development of this game :-) We tested the game on real hardware running Ms-Dos and in Dosbox 0.74-3 without encountering such an issue. Maybe you can try it in classic Dosbox?

Great game, addictive and simple but challenging gameplay. I just predordered the DOS-version on Polyplay. :)

Thank you for your feedback. It's always nice to see when someone enjoys what we do. And especially that the extra effort for the DOS version was worth it :-)

very good