# Fate of the World?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fate-of-the-world/580751>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 4, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fate-of-the-world/580751 "2011-05-04T21:17:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fate-of-the-world/580751/1 "2011-05-04T21:17:28Z")

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Anyone tried this other than me? I picked it up a couple of weeks ago after hearing about it on [Extra Credits](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/3080-Games-You-Might-Not-Have-Tried-or-Heard-Of), and, truthfully, a game about desperately trying to rescue humanity from global collapse has no business being this engaging.

I just beat the third scenario (“Fuel Shortage”) after a LOT of tries (Probably on the order of 20 or so?) and it was a darn near thing, featuring frantic Sulfate Aerosol deployment in 3 or 4 regions in 2015 to keep us from creeping up the last few fractions of a degree to 3 degrees of warming.

While I don’t feel like I’m precisely GOOD at this yet, everytime I play, I learn something new about how things connect together. Even if some of those plays do involve massive global famine (“Millionaires starving in Europe!”) or thermonuclear discharge (That’s the last time I let stability slip in Russia!).

Maybe I’m the sort of liberal hippie this game is aimed at, I dunno, but I’m sure liking it a lot.