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Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life. From the lowly tidepools of your home planet, you will rise to cosmic dominance. At every step, powerful creation tools and deep simulation mechanics will aid your species’ development. Revolutionary Games is the open-source team of dedicated volunteers aiming to make Thrive a reality. Our team seeks to accomplish two major goals: create engaging, compelling gameplay that respects our players’ intelligence, and remain as accurate as possible in our depiction of known scientific theory without compromising the former. Thrive will encapsulate the player in the wonders of science and the universe, allowing them to manipulate the virtual world around them with editors to modify technology, culture, organisms, and entire solar systems. Seven stages are planned, Microbe, Multicellular, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial and Space, though for the moment we’re only focusing on the first of these.
Features
- Thrive takes many games as inspiration, from roguelikes to grand strategy games
- We aim to explore the possibilities of simulation within a game context
- Players will create and edit an organism on its journey from insignificance to the stars
- By collecting substances from the environment and processing them with a simulated metabolism, you can increase your species’ fitness rating
- Less successful evolutionary paths will vanish, and only one may progress through every crucial transformative step
- Thrive is an ongoing development project, and has already seen several releases of the first microbial game stage
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