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Overthrown is a city builder where you can throw your whole city at the sky because secretly, you hate city buildersAlso supports six player co-op
Also supports six player co-op
Image credit:Maximum Entertainment
Image credit:Maximum Entertainment
Overthrown - Gameplay Teaser TrailerWatch on YouTube
Overthrown - Gameplay Teaser Trailer
The crown doesn’t just give you superhuman strength. It also lets you sprint so fast that you can run on water. Combine your superhuman speed with your superhuman strength, and you have the means to accelerate the generic business of, say, turning trees into lumber. All you have to do is heft your sawmill over your head and run through the woods, screaming in exhilaration and despair as an entire forest ecosystem disappears into the building’s whirling blades.
The only problem with that framing is that the actual combat side of Overthrown looks pretty leaden and uninspired, but you don’t necessarily have to fight the mutants and outlaws who raid your town. You can just pick up the mutant lair and place it next to the outlaw camp, then watch them murder each other.
The last twist in the tale here is that Overthrown is a co-op game, with room for up to six players (there’s a moment of throwback joy in one trailer where it looks like they’re advertising six-way splitscreen, but don’t be fooled - it’s online co-op only). Your friends all have magic crowns of their own and as such, are to be regarded with deep suspicion. They will throw your buildings away! Better throw their buildings away first.
All told, Overthrown feels like a great fit for the kind ofSimCityplayer who’s always itching to push the Godzilla button.It’s out in early access this year.
