Mobile Game of the Week: Pixel People (iOS)
Can humanity be engineered from the ground-up? Can genuine human experience be recreated through artificial simulation? These are some fascinating questions for a game to ask, especially for a free game on your cell phone like Pixel People. But even more fascinating is that the tools that the game gives you to answer those questions come in the form of a freemium city-building management simulator.
If you are privy to the genre, Pixel People won’t surprise you much. There are in-app purchases, meaningless button pushes to keep you busy, and an inevitable end-game scenario of you being bored. However, the real guts of Pixel People, which are most certainly the first couple hours of play, have enough artistic spark and charm to make this a real standout in the dark and depressing world of freemium iOS games.
As per usual, Pixel People puts you in the role of some kind of unknown planet-controlling management power. Usually we would attribute that character to a god of some sort, but here our mission is to build a society from the ground-up through good ol’ fashioned cloning and gene splicing. One by one, you’ll construct the necessary buildings of a society and populate them with competent employees who have the skills to make you money. The cool part is that in order to turn your shipments of clones into functioning members of your economy, you’ll need to splice together the genes from workers of two different occupations. So mixing an artist with a mechanic makes a photographer, a photographer and a detective makes a CSI agent, and so on.
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