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Sixty Four is a very elegant abstract factory sim with sinister depthsOut today
Out today
Image credit:Playsaurus
Image credit:Playsaurus
It starts, much as when writing articles for videogame websites, with a blank page. More accurately, a white space of indefinite extent. In the middle of the white space there is a curious little yellow machine, a kind of motorised plunger akin to an oil derrick. In the story ofSixty Four, you’re late to some kind of social engagement, somewhere beyond that beaming expanse of whiteness. But there is time, even as texts from a friend appear down the lefthand margin, to mess around with the strange yellow machine.
Even as you create and burst more of these cubes, and even as the friend you’re texting grows increasingly exasperated, a store tab appears on the righthand side, where you can trade the smaller cubes for other machines. One machine makes the big cubes break up faster. Another stops the plunger on the first machine resetting between pushes. Some of these additional machines need to be fuelled using yellow and purple cubes that fleck the surfaces of the big black cubes. The fuelling element transforms a game about the tactile gratifications of popping geometric objects into more of astrategyexperience, with production and supply loops and, yes, there it is - the beginnings of full automation.
Sixty Four Idle Game TrailerWatch on YouTube
Sixty Four Idle Game Trailer
I haven’t played much beyond that, and frankly, I’m afraid to, but suffice to say that Sixty Four is an idle clicker about building abstract factories that may yet prove to be a very good existential horror game. Tonally, at least, it reminds me a little ofVoid Stranger.
If you need more sense of the scope, the trailer above includes scenes from much later in the game, when your cube extraction facility should have swollen toFactorio-esque proportions. Perhaps you’d like to give it a play, and let me know how things pan out? Sixty Four is out onSteamtoday for more or less the price of a takeaway coffee, and possibly also your soul.
