Our latest coverage of Eco. 1r635m
It’s been six years since Eco launched into early access and opened its environment-friendly world to everyone willing to pay the $30 box price. Since then, it’s continually been updated with new content and features, including a garbage decomposition system, furthering developer Strange Loop Games’ goal of teaching players how to take better care of our planet. The studio is [...]
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Climate change MMO simulator Eco just got a “massive upgrade” as it nears its sixth year in early access. Developer Strange Loop Games rolled out Update 10 earlier this week which introduced a wide range of new features and mechanics that significantly expanded the game’s core gameplay loop. Players can now establish towns and countries, and come together to form [...]
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Voxel-based ecosystem simulator Eco from indie studio Strange Loop Games has emerged from Alpha into Beta and Steam Early Access today. “Enter the world of Eco, a fully simulated ecosystem bustling with thousands of growing plants and animals living their lives. Build, harvest, and take resources from an environment where your every action affects the world around you. An imminent [...]
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Eco is a survival MMO where players team up to build civilization and prevent disasters, using natural resources from the fully simulated wilderness. Balance the progression of society with the health of the wilderness, with the ultimate goal of keeping the ecosystem thriving while preventing disasters with increasingly modern technology. Publisher: Strange Loop Games Playerbase: Medium Type: Simulation/Survival MMO Release [...]
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Kickstarter-funded MMO Eco will begin its first test for alpha-tier backers beginning on November 23, 2015. The announcement is packaged with a series of gameplay changes, such as skill mechanic integration into crafting and basic farming mechanics. The laws system and crafting table models have also been improved. Eco introduces a fascinating concept that embeds player in their environment rather than [...]
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Ecosystem Survival MMO, ECO, has announced a Doomsday Device tier for their Kickstarter and have already rescinded it. The new tier allowed players who paid for it at $750 USD to be the sole holders of a power that allows them to effectively steal technology and trigger the apocalypse— making themselves into possible villains for the game. This met [...]
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Ecosystem Survival Simulation MMO, Eco, is nearing their 150,000 USD milestone for land ownership, taxation and building rights. In light of this, they've updated their 200,000 USD milestone to include a PvP Criminal Justice System. It's an interesting system that brings consequences to a genre riddled with "no-consequences"— players will create laws, and rather than automatically disallowing players from breaking [...]
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