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![]() Spot a market inefficiency, such as the price of water edging above the price of food? Turn off your farms, start selling the excess water instead, buy food directly at the lower price, and pocket the difference. ![]() Perhaps everyone else builds powerful Geothermal Plants, ensuring that the power market will always be over-supplied? Just skip power entirely and jump ahead into more lucrative resources like chemicals and glass. ![]() Further, the best players will adapt to how their opponents play: The randomly-generated terrain and resources ensure that each map is a new game board that rewards certain play styles. What makes Offworld special is that each playthrough is entirely unique. Ultimately, it’s all of these things and yet something else too: a strategy game full of simple and familiar elements that are combined in a way never before tried. It feels like a board game but one which could never exist outside of a computer. It’s a real-time strategy game, but you don’t control units or directly attack other players. Although I have worked on Offworld Trading Company for over a year now, I still struggle to know how to first describe the game.
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