Indie game developer Serious Brothers announced that the ecological science fiction city-building game ‘Imagine Earth’ will be released on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4&5 on May 2, 2024. It has already been released on Steam and Xbox and has received rave reviews from critics and won several awards for its combination of leisurely strategic play and sustainable themes.
Additionally, Serious Brothers is selling ‘Imagine Earth’ at a 30% discount from April 22nd to April 29th as part of the Earth Day celebration held on Steam. 100% of the proceeds from Earth Day will be donated to global afforestation organizations, and 10% of the proceeds from the rest of the year will be donated to global afforestation organizations. This is the company’s pledge to support the sustainability and environmental protection of ‘Imagine Earth’, and detailed past donations are described in the annual impact report.
‘Imagine Earth’ is set in the not-so-distant future of 2084. Players become space colony managers and take on the responsibility of building a new home for humans. After corporate greed and resource exploitation bring ruin to their home planet, players explore healthy planets with the goal of building and growing cities in a more sustainable way.
In ‘Imagine Earth’s’ story-based campaign mode, players must explore and mine resources to build a civilization on 11 diverse planets with resource-rich blue oceans, snow-capped mountains, and lush green fields.
Using the profits from trading natural resources with space merchants, you must build power plants, farms, and factories, creating an expanded capitalism that satisfies both corporations and civilians. We must transform technological advancements and profits into research to find a direction for sustainable social development. The economic war to prevent corporate domination on the discovered planet is also fought through methods such as stock borrowing and hostile takeover of rival colonies.
Corporate greed is not the only threat players face in ‘Imagine Earth.’ If urban expansion is not balanced with the ecosystem, natural disasters may occur. Through real-time planetary simulation, players can see the consequences of exploitative development, with natural disasters such as forest fires, volcanic activity, radioactive contamination, and rising sea levels collapsing civilizations and leading to citizen protests and riots.
‘Imagine Earth’ is scheduled to be released on May 9th for Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4&5, and Mac OS. Currently, ‘Imagine Earth’ is being serviced on Steam and Xbox. More detailed news about the game can be found on developer Serious Brothers’ X (Twitter) , Facebook , YouTube , and Discord communities .
