World Process

World Process is a card-based game about influencing the course of the world and exploring possible futures for humanity. You play cards to direct actions in different countries, changing their attributes and potentially affecting how the world develops.

Cards and countries

The cards represent the next actions taken in each country and come in three types: ideas, technology and engineering. An environmental-protection idea card can increase a country's natural resources attribute and may unlock related technology cards. A new-energy technology card starts research into new energy, while a lunar-probe engineering card starts construction of lunar probes.

The game begins in 2011 and ends automatically after 100 years. If human society survives for the full century, you get a continuation ending; if it does not, you get another ending. An option can be turned on or off to avoid accidental destruction of the world.

Endings and cards

There are 18 endings to unlock: 7 continuation endings, 5 half-destruction endings and 6 destruction endings. The game includes 19 idea cards, 20 technology cards and 19 engineering cards, for 58 cards in total. Each run takes 10 to 60 minutes, and random events can make the process both realistic and absurd.