It's a shame, because Godus is otherwise quite riveting on an iPad. After that minute is up, there is literally nothing you can do without spending real money. Without paying, you can play the game for about a minute at a time, at one-hour intervals at best. However, the time it takes to construct a building, or generate belief, or harvest food and other resources is utterly unmanageable. It's got all the trappings of a really good, classic game. There's a lot more to the game over time - you'll need to build farms and collect food, and you keep unlocking technology using stickers you find in hidden treasure chests - you also need to do things like plant trees and build fountains to keep the people happy, or they might start worshipping a rival god. When you have a temple ready, your believers will pray to you, and that belief is what allows you to flatten mountains and raise lakes. Soon enough, you learn that you can sculpt the land, and when you make flat land, you can send some of your believers to build houses, and later farms and more complex settlements. Godus starts with you, a nebulous undefined God, rescuing two villagers from drowning, a nod to Black and White. Unfortunately, Godus is not one of the games that gets freemium right, and instead it ends up feeling like a cash grab. And done properly, it's actually not a bad thing from a gamer's perspective either. The decision to make the game free makes a lot of business sense - most games on the App Store are following the freemium model now. Godus is a charming mess that could have easily been amazing, but it's still a mess. It's out now and you can download it for free on an iPad or iPhone.Īfter spending nearly a week with the game, we have to say that it is a mess.

The latest game from Molyneux is a God game for iOS devices, called Godus.

Most gamers know the name of Peter Molyneux - the man practically invented the 'God Game' genre with Populous.

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