Despotism 3k

4.87K reviews
Content rating
USK: Ages 12+
100K+
Downloads
€0 with a Play Pass subscription Learn more
Content rating
USK: Ages 12+
Violence, Scary Content, Explicit Language
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About this game

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire! You’ll have to keep track of them to make sure they don’t succumb to exhaustion and hunger… although the weakest ones can always be thrown to the Bioreactor.
In other words, this is a indie resource management sim with rogue-lite elements, dramatic plot, and an abundance of pop culture references. Also, humor. Slaughter has never been so fun!

Key features:
1) Humor as dark as your ex’s heart. Immerse yourself in the life of a merciless tyrant!!
2) Resource management on steroids. Think fast, to the point, and abandon pity!
3) Rogue-lite (Almost roguelike) Every walkthrough is unique due to randomly generated events. And every failure is fatal — you’ll have to start over!
4) Easy to learn, hard to master. It only takes a couple minutes to figure out the game’s mechanics, but using them optimally is no small feat!

Core gameplay consists of transporting puny humans between various facilities using mechanical claws. They rest in one of the facilities and work in all the others. Puny humans are to produce energy for us (which is leaking constantly), they also have to reproduce and feed themselves. You need to plan your strategy and tactics in advance and track all your humans so that they don't die of exhaustion. The foremost roguelike element is that you can't save the game - you have to start from scratch every time. Besides that, a random event happens after every five feedings in the form of a text quest. A correct choice may provide some bonus, an incorrect one - well, you'll see! Many of the modifiers that you get due to the random events change the game's look significantly.

In the second campaign besides resource management you get a totally new "raid" mechanic. Send your humans on expeditions around a procedurally generated map and earn resources without any limits. Come on, you have to find the Time Machine lost in the wastelands of 3k-land!
Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on right side!
Updated on
Feb 10, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

4.63K reviews
Tobias Holmer
September 4, 2023
I really enjoy the game. It is pretty hard and you got to adapt fast and have a decent frustration tolerance. I like when games are simple but complicated. In also enjoy the humor. The only thing I would like to see if there was ever another part of the game would be some kind of rouge like elements, that would ease the pain of losing without making it too simple if the scaling just ramps up hard enough.
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Vas Vadum
August 18, 2026
I'm inclined to agree with several reviews that this game has roughly only one path to victory that requires you to figure out the exact strategy the dev intended and memorize which events are bad. I also don't like this drag up/down to send remove units, and the button version is too small to for mobile. Maybe if this had a slow mode so I can think and stuff I'd be less annoyed. I'll keep trying though. I wishlisted on steam to see if pc version may be better.
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Vivek Tiwari
August 8, 2026
This looks like a very poorly made game. I played it using play pass and I still do not think it's worth it. It's unintuitive and difficult to manage. But not difficult in a gaming sense but rather it's just poorly designed. Even the initial intro campaign is pretty messy and events as already mentioned could make or break your run instead of any actual gameplay
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