Dystopia Inc.

A deck building anti-city-builder developed for the 2023 GMTK Game Jam. Inspired by the long history of exploitative real estate development practices.

Controls

• Left Click to select cards and targets.
• Left Click and Drag to pan the camera.

How To Play

Your objective is to own everything, even if you have to tear down the whole city to do it. You win when you own 100% of the tiles.

Cards

Each turn you'll draw 3 cards from your deck, and you may play as many as you wish. After you select a card you can afford, targetable tiles will be outlined in green.

Buildings and Ownership

Placing and maintaining buildings grants you ownership over their respective tiles. Buildings you own are indicated by a colored ring on the tile, green for your buildings and blue for buildings owned by the city. 

All buildings have an Upkeep value that lowers by 1 at the end of each turn. Building Cards will have a number on the bottom right corner to indicate their Max Upkeep. If a building's Upkeep reaches 0, it'll be cleared and replaced with a Vacant tile. New buildings can only be placed on Vacant tiles.

Financing

You start each game with $10, and most cards and Buildings cost money to play. To gain more money, create buildings with Revenue, indicated by the number on the bottom left corner of a Building Card. At the end of each turn, you gain money equal to the total Revenue of buildings you own.

After turn 5, you will begin to lose $1 each turn and this amount will double every 5 turns after that. If your money ever drops below $1, you lose the game.

Credits

Background music from PlayOnLoop.com
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0