Power to the People
Rhombico Games · 2022 · Management, Economy, Building, Resource Management, City Builder
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 468
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About Power to the People
✦ AI summary
Build and expand power grids across five continents to meet soaring energy demands while managing multiple power sources and battling unpredictable disasters like storms and blackouts. Navigate strategic resource management, automated power routing, and 30+ technologies to design the perfect energy system, then test your skills against weekly challenges and leaderboards.
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population - all while fighting off potential disaster - in this thrilling resource management experience. Sell energy and earn money in order to expand your company. Provide more power to existing customers and supply it to newly constructed cities. It's time for you to give Power to the People!
Feature Summary:
- Multiple modes (Main Campaign, Sandbox Mode, and Weekly Challenges)
- 14 missions spanning 5 continents
- Varying levels of difficulty
- 20+ unique buildings to utilize
- Extensive research tree with 30+ perks to discover and influence point management
- Different weather conditions, each providing its own challenges to the player
- Random events
- Leaderboard
Challenge yourself and provide electricity to constantly growing cities, all while the demand for energy increases. Utilize more than 20 buildings and their upgrades to achieve your goals and keep the power running. Remember, if there are blackouts and your customers are not satisfied, you’ll be out of a job! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Do you believe in nuclear power as the solution for humankind's energy production problems? Or are you more of a renewable energy fan? Perhaps you’d prefer to go old school and stick to fossil fuels? Power to the People offers you a wide array of power plant types and energy storage solutions so you can design your grid exactly how you want it, all while taking advantage of the local resources and climate.
Each continent has its own challenges and weather conditions. You will have to employ both strategy and judgement to select the best energy plants, providing the most benefit for current conditions. Don’t forget to automate how power flows through your grids by using switching stations. Switching stations will allow you to adjust power flow based on weather conditions, power usage, storage, etc. Create the most robust system possible and thrive!
Research more than 30 different technologies in order to improve your substations, power plants, and power lines. Don’t forget to spend some extra influence points to research new marketing techniques to boost the economy of your company.
Each day, you’ll see new challenges thrown your way - be ready for anything! Sometimes, Mother Nature will surprise you with lightning bolts, solar flares, and falling trees which can put both your power lines and power plants at risk. In other cases, cities might experience increased power usage due to events like football games, the arrival of influencers, or the hosting of an extremely popular TV show. Make sure you provide a smooth experience for everyone involved and keep the people happy!
You finished the main campaign and played around in sandbox mode, and now you want more? Every week, a new set of challenges will be presented to players. Play maps that have special conditions and specific restrictions, earn points, compete against other players, and climb your way to the top of the leaderboard!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
incredibly fun game it starts simple and easy but you need to progressively optimize in order to keep the evolving cities running so there's never a dull moment If i have to criticize something is that the energy times don't vary much, you could play every single map with only wind power or only solar power despite being on different continents without major drawbacks but it's up to you1 found this helpful
It starts off okish but the gameplay loop quickly becomes a chore and given that every map is 50 days that too quickly feels as an obligation rather then a challenge. The core issue I am having is that rather then challenge the game gives the illusion of strategy masquading busywork with not quite sensical rules.
its pretyy addictive, but i find ill play it for 5-10 hrs over the span of a few days then get bored for a while then back to it lol...
You'll manage an electrical utility, providing power to settlements of various sizes and composition, helping them grow and prosper to the point where it becomes difficult to feed the hungry populace enough Watts while also managing the bloating infrastructure costs and lopsided time-of-use schedules. Graphics are sort of cute and voxel-y, and the UI is pleasing and polished. I think it was worth the time I've spent playing, but I'll say there's not enough novelty in the gameplay and content to play it much more.
Not Recommended
Generally fun, but most maps play almost exactly the same and it runs out of meaningfully new content fast. Buy it on sale.
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