Depopulation

Depopulation is a turn-based strategy game about responding to pollution that threatens life on Earth. You play as a highly intelligent person with psychopathic tendencies, employed by a billionaire and tasked with saving the environment by any means necessary. The game examines humanity’s connection to the environment and the cost of ignoring it.

Choose your approach

You can pursue depopulation through invasions, hunger, disease, nuclear weapons, intensified natural disasters and civil wars, targeting the most adaptable and clever animal on the planet. Alternatively, you can take a peaceful but harder route: use politics to persuade countries to join you, build environmental wonders and infrastructure, and reduce the birth rate to create a sustainable future. In either approach, the survival of Earth’s environment is the priority.

Earth and its environment

The game renders Earth as a way to show the world and the environment at risk. Its ideas include sustainability, biodiversity and how species that fit their environment survive; being strongest does not guarantee survival if resources are exhausted. Turns resolve instantly, keeping play fast, while saving the world is difficult. The game is fairly short but highly replayable.