These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended4 hrs
No, this isn't like playing a saturday morning cartoon, or an old school adult swim series. Maybe that's what it tried to be but it failed. The writing sucks and isn't funny at all and the gameplay is even worse. There's no way I'm going to finish this and I don't know how I even sat through 4 hours of it.
If you've ever wanted to play a game in which you take the part of Nandor the Relentless from What We Do In The Shadows, this is the closest you're going to get for now. It's like an interactive late-night Channel 4 comedy show. Brilliant voice cast, hilarious script, great tweaks to the standard point and click adventure formula. Can't wait to play more, but more than happy to give this an enthusiastic recommend already.
EDIT: Finished the game. Enjoyed it a lot. Many memorable moments, and it's interesting how the game manages to still have some decent puzzles despite no conventional inventory and the main character not being willing to use his own hands for anything. Adventure game veterans will probably breeze through it, but that's no bad thing when the main attraction here is the story, voice acting and animation.
It's not a "choices matter" game, but there are some notably different scenes if you play things a bit differently at certain points. Just go with your gut when you first play, though -- there are no "wrong" answers!
Big thumbs up overall. Here's hoping Size Five is able to do some more similarly ambitious titles in the future, because this was very successful at what it was doing -- and if this kicks off a trend of adventure games with all-star British comedian voice casts I am 100% on board.
Irreverent, Puerile, and very, very British. The game shoots for the writing of Douglas Adams, the hand-wavy science of Red Dwarf, and the comic timing of both. And it comes within spitting distance of both. VValak is a vile and unlikable toady, and so makes for a perfect adventure game protagonist. The world is brought to life by an art style that is simultaneously garish and wonderful, and through a who's-who of great voice actors who will prompt a "oh it's THAT one from the telly!" reaction.
The progress throughout is fairly linear as VValak's insistence to not carry anything requires most puzzle solutions will only require what is present on the screen at the time to complete, and the narrative through-line finds itself exploring long cul-de-sacs that don't particularly mean much in the grand scheme of things. But neither of these things is a particularly difficult thing to get past and the jokes consistently are thrown at you at such a relentless pace it's hard to not get dragged along on whatever nonsense it throws at you.
A firm contender for the best point and click game of the year.
Hi everyone!We hope you're all having a great time with Earth Must Die!We just wanted to let you know that there's only a few days left until you can grab the game for 25% OFF, so be sure to grab it if you haven't already!Be sure to check out our handy walkthrough too if you need a bit of help while playing:Thank you again for the laughs & great reviews you've given Earth Must Die - we've been thoroughly enjoying the positivity you've been giving the game, so for that, thank you!We'll see you soon!
Hi everyone! We've been listening closely to your feedback & thoughts since we launched Earth Must Die, and we're very happy to be dropping our very first update, with some bug fixes & quality of life changes! Here's what you can expect: Fixed an issue where opening the main menu while dialogue choices were being displayed could cause them to be off-centreAdded the ability to control VValak's interaction UI with the right stick on controllersIncreased the size of the Simplified Chinese font atlas to fix missing glyphsFixed an issue that could cause the cursor on the Map to stop showingFixed some hyperlinks in the Milkipedia entry for PhysusTweaked some timings in the puzzle where the Mayor drops his grotty novellaThanks for sending over your feedback & reports, we wouldn't be able to lock down these changes as fast otherwise! Please keep sending over anything you might find, or just general feedback too!We'll see you soon!
Hi everyone! We've loved seeing you all have a great time with Earth Must Die, especially seeing what choices you've made & all the different routes you've been taking while playing! Did you know there are some choices and dialogue which will influence some events in the game? It might be worth going back & having a replay to see what could turn out differently... Here's a few things that you might have missed: You can actually disrupt Skwid's presentation by moving Vvalak to the Skwidbot, which will disrupt the presentation & alter interaction with Skwid on his yacht later If you choose to defund the guards or drop the rebel storyline, they will not be available at The Spire & you'll unlock the chandelier puzzle, with the choice of deciding the fate of your father and changing some of the events that follow If you choose the nasty options with your interactions with Betsy, she'll try to kill you Speaking to the soldier in the tutorial, after Allus and Physus have arrived, using the communicator, will give additional dialogue in the earth attack sequence Just something to leave with you all, in case you want to go back and try some stuff again 👀 Thanks again for giving us a great launch with Earth Must Die! If you haven't already, be sure to leave us a review & let us know how you're finding it! We'll see you soon!
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