Trivia / Rebel Inc.

• Colbert Bump: A rather nasty one. The game surged in popularity after Afghanistan government and army collapsed within few weeks of fighting against Taliban forces once the American military contingent left the country in 2021.
• Creator-Driven Successor: To Plague Inc.. A game about counter-insurgency operations and nation-building might not seem like it has anything in common with a game about eradicating the world population with disease, but the mechanics and goals are remarkably similar. Both games involve the player trying to change members of regional populations to a certain state (dead or supporter) in order to completely dominate the map with zones of a certain state (dead countries or stabilized regions). To this end players must strategically purchase modifications to their disease/operation which modifies one of three core variables (severity, infectivity, and lethality vs support, inflation, and corruption) and which spreads outward from a single starting point (operation HQ or starting country). In addition to having mechanically identical win states, failure comes when a crucial variable (cure progress or reputation) reaches a certain point. Though, Rebel Inc was thought up by the developer before they'd started on Plague Inc.

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