A downloadable game

Earth has become a hot and dry place. The struggle for food and water has led to a breakdown of civilization and caused devastating wars and destruction. From the ashes of modern society, the survivors have organized themselves into tribal structures and are fighting each other for survival in the barren wastelands.

Devolution - Global Warming is a real-time strategy game that requires quick tactical decisions and a good long-term strategy.

Your goal is to unite the survivors of the apocalypse. But there are others who are trying to do the same. To win, you have to defeat all your opponents or at least stay alive longer...

System Requirements:

This version of game was created for the Commodore 64. If you're playing on real hardware, you'll need a 1541/1541 II or another drive and a joystick.

The game can also be played in a C64 emulator like Vice. There you can play the game with many different controllers or a keyboard.

The game is also available for MS-DOS on itch.io here

Features:

  • Real-time-action with adaptive game speed
  • 1-2 human players, up to 4 players in total
  • 7 unique maps
  • 3 different difficulty levels
  • PAL/NTSC support

You can download a digital version of the full game and the manual here for free (see downloads below). The digital version of the game is available in two formats:

  • Disk Image (.d64)
  • Single File (.prg)

Each download contains the exact same version of the game.  The disk image also includes a loader, but you will need a real disk driver or an emulator with true drive emulation to play the game. If you want to play the game from another media such as an SD2IEC, please use the .prg download.

In addition, poly.play is releasing a limited collector's edition of the game. The collector's edition consists of a beautiful cardboard box containing a printed manual, a poster and other extras. There are three versions available:

  • 5 ,25" Disk
  • Cartridge
  • 3,5" Disk

For details visit: https://www.polyplay.xyz/


For some extra information about the game and upcoming projects visit our site: https://www.windigo-design.de/wp_projects.html

Download

Download
devolution.d64 170 kB
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devolution.prg 49 kB
Download
devolution_manual_all_systems.pdf 846 kB

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Fantastic, right up my alley.  Was looking for post-apocalyptic desert survival and here it is.  Just ordered the Collector's Edition boxed with ... cartridge~!  Best part about it is the aesthetic - it doesn't do that "modern retro" look - feels like a late-era released C64 title.

You're welcome ;-) Thank you very much for your feedback.

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beautiful graphics and music and good game-play, massive well-done.

Those physical boxes look lovely too!

Thank you for your nice feedback :-)

Nice graphics and decent music. Sadly the game genre isn't to my liking but it was worth checking out. Still a very good effort, and I am sure many other gamers will probably enjoy your game. :)

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Thanks for trying anyway :-D

Awesome C64 game about a modern topic!

Looking great!

Very Nice, thank you. ;-)

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Very good new game, thank you. I also added it to my November's new Commodore 64 games video too.

Thanks! :-)

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The game might be ok/good, but the propaganda behind it is not - "global warming" is a socialist fairy tale, it does not exist. ignoring this game as propaganda has no place on the c64. think about what you play people. think!

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It's just a game in a completely fictional setting. Nothing else.

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You might be right, It just touched a sore spot. I am dead sick of all the propaganda surrounding this topic so I might have over reacted a little, that's all...


I agree with you but the game's creators were most likely not really thinking of that.

Who knows why the "global warming" happened, could be the result of a crazy billionaire Gil Bates seeding the atmosphere with particles to reflect the sun gone wrong ...  Or solar flares burning away the atmosphere, etc.

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Awesome new RTS game! Just what the C64 needs. Almost unbelievable that you packed such nuanced gameplay (exploration, resource management, fortification, battles) in just one PRG!
I recorded some footage from real C64 hardware:

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Thanks for the video. It was actually a lot of work to get everything into one file. I'm very happy that you like it :-)

Good job!

https://c64universe.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/devolution-global-warming-2023-wind...

very good

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Awesome game!

Great video. Thank you!