History VideoGame / Reus

''Reus'' is a 2013 [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] game by Dutch indie developer ''Abbey Games'', later ported to UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne in 2016. The game mixes elements of puzzle and god games by having the player try to make a planet as habitable as possible for humans. This is achieved by controlling four Giants that can essentially shape the environment at will. The Giants are, for all intents and purposes, PhysicalGods; they raise mountains, dig deep oceans and create plants and animals with little more than a wave of their hands. The Giants are:

* AGodIsYou: Technically, the player is addressed by the game as the planet itself, which controls the Giants.

* SuperWeight: The Giants should be about World Weight 5 or 6, with the player (as the consciousness of the planet itself) at least one order of magnitude heavier.

** The Forest Giant will use a hand to comb it's hair (which [[ShapedLikeItself is made out of forest]], or sneeze [[SneezeofDoom a whole bunch of leaves out]].

* TheMaker: You, through the agency of your Giants.
* PhysicalGod: Each of the Giants, basically.

''Reus'' is a 2013 video game made by Dutch indie developer ''Abbey Games''. The game mixes elements of puzzle and god games by having the player try to make a planet as habitable as possible for humans. This is achieved by controlling four Giants that can essentially shape the environment at will. The Giants are, for all intents and purposes, PhysicalGods; they raise mountains, dig deep oceans and create plants and animals with little more than a wave of their hands. The Giants are:

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* GreenEyes: All of the Giants have them.

'''Reus''' is a 2013 video game made by Dutch indie developer ''Abbey Games''. The game mixes elements of puzzle and god games by having the player try to make a planet as habitable as possible for humans. This is achieved by controlling four Giants that can essentially shape the environment at will. The Giants are, for all intents and purposes, PhysicalGods; they raise mountains, dig deep oceans and create plants and animals with little more than a wave of their hands. The Giants are:

''Reus'' is a 2013 video game made by Dutch indie developer Abbey Games. The game mixes elements of puzzle and god games by having the player try to make a planet as habitable as possible for humans. This is achieved by controlling four Giants that can essentially shape the environment at will. The Giants are, for all intents and purposes, PhysicalGods; they raise mountains, dig deep oceans and create plants and animals with little more than a wave of their hands. The Giants are:

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Are the villagers getting too greedy? Making war with their neighbours? Have the Ocean Giant come over and re-enact the story of Atlantis.

* GodJobs: Each of the Giants has a particular role and certain specialized abilities.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Oftentimes, the only way for one village to prosper is by you destroying another. One villager project will require you to destroy a specific other village in order to succeed with it (in addition to its other requirements).

* InferredHolocaust: Each tutorial level ends with your inner consciousness going to sleep, hoping that the next time you wake up you'll find things running on its own. Every time, you start the next level awakening to a dead world, devoid of even the slightest of evidence of life having ever been there.

** The Rock Giant does something, but this editor hasn't seen them.
* InferredHolocaust: Each tutorial level ends with your inner consciousness going to sleep, hoping that the next time you wake up you'll find things running on its own. Every time, you start the next level awakening to a dead world, devoid of even the slightest of evidence of life having ever been there.

* UglyCute: The Giants.

* GaiasVengeance: You can invoke this once the puny humans get on your nerves too much.

* AGodIsYou: Technically, the player is adressed by the game as the planet itself, which controls the Giants.

* SuperWeight: The Giants should be about World Weight 5 or 6, with the player (as the conciousness of the planet itself) at least one order of magnitude heavier.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Are the villagers getting to greedy? Making war with their neighbours? Have the Ocean Giant come over and re-enact the story of Atlantis.

* GaiasVengeance: You can invoke once the puny humans get on your nerves too much.

Reus is a 2013 video game made by Dutch indie developer Abbey Games. The game mixes elements of puzzle and god games by having the player try to make a planet as habitable as possible for humans. This is achieved by controlling four Giants that can essentially shape the environment at will. The Giants are, for all intents and purposes, PhysicalGods; they raise mountains, dig deep oceans and create plants and animals with little more than a wave of their hands. The Giants are: