MachiaVillain Review

Welcome to Villain City, a luxury community entrenched in the hills of horror. Ax murderers, mad scientists and tax evaders, all kinds of bad guys consider this place to be their sweet home. This is the perfect place to rest, relax, and pursue a career in the noblest of professions: professional Villain!!

The real estate agent promised you a haunted house with jump scare devices and terrifying traps. Instead, you have a piece of empty land full of Vermin near a rubbish forest.

But do not flee yet! With a little elbow grease, the help of your minions and a lot of murders, you can turn this house into a happy and dreary mortal trap. Just lure locals inside, then trigger your deadly traps or let your minion feast on their brains and flesh. Every night you'll multiply your evil level until everyone calls your mansion " scary, nasty and horrible."

Be aware that the League of MachiaVillain Villains has adopted a strict policy that governs the level of wickedness that you have to adhere to in order to stay in the community. Drs Frank and Stein, Siamese co-Chairmen of the Board of evil ( BDM ), dictated a series of rules to follow when conducting your villainous business. They cover everything from how to kill intruders- to what salads are considered the most evil (no surprise, grated carrots).

Follow the rules of the League and become the scariest neighborhood Villain!

How the game is played:

If you've played games like Dungeon Keeper, Oxygen Not Included, Rimworld, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Fallout Shelter, etc, or if you are a serial killer like H.H. Holmes, who ran a hotel of death in real life, you will note many familarities in gameplay and hit the ground running. MachiaVillain's spin on the base building management genre is that you must establish your base as a haunted house and lure victims into it for traps, jump scares, and murder. You will have to abide by the parameters that the League of MachiaVillain community places on you, which ultimately comes down to some generalized horror movie rules. Some examples of these rules are, "Kill the virgin last," "Do NOT kill the dog. EVER," "Kill them only when they are alone," and "Kill them at night." It's important to note that cleaning up after your kills is conducive to maintaining a properly run murder house and low suspicion level.

To ensure that you are equipped for success, you are provided with a menu of primary actions that branches out into diverse sub-menus loaded with minion commands, gathering prioritization, structural components, craftable items, decorations, utility, storage, business functions, marketing, laboratory, researchables, crypt management, monster recruiting, and more. Additionally, you have ingame access to archived tasks, events, and instruction, as well as League rules, rank tracking, startup guide, and access to the MachiaVillain Wiki site.

You will have a variety of monster minions to pick from initially (you begin with your choice of three), or if you are not satisfied with the selection's ability and personality statistics, you can reroll for a new lineup. You can reroll for each and every minion that you select as the game progresses. Additional minion slots are unlocked as you rank up. They can be assigned multiple tasks at once, with the number of simultaneously allowable tasks based on their limitations or bonuses. Their individual tasks include Building, Chopping Wood, Mining, Collecting Plants, Maintenance, Storing Resources, Extinguishing Fires, and Refilling. Room tasks include Factory, Home Office, Kitchen, Laboratory, and Training. Their loyalty rating will determine how well they listen to you. They will also encounter hazards and dangerous creatures when they are out and about running their errands, and fighting will be a viable option...if they have the skills, stats, and resistances to do so. Be mindful that they are always well-rested and well-fed (like me).

Obviously, with a game so finely detailed and encyclopedic, this wall of text barely scratches the surface of the varied sandbox experiences you will encounter, but you get the gist. The convergence of your efficiency, planning, design, marketing, minion attributes, environment, hazards, job assignments, etc, plus randomized circumstances, create some wildly diverse and memorable magic moments. At full price, there's a lot of bang for your buck here.

Current price on steam is 15,99 Euros