Evil Genius
Evil Genius focuses on building an island lair and the management of minions that are employed by the Evil Genius, allowing the player to progress through the main storyline with achieving world domination as…
Evil Genius is a puzzle developed by Elixir Studios, released 28 September 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.74 at Fanatical.
What Evil Genius is
Evil Genius is a puzzle game developed by Elixir Studios and released in 2004. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Evil Genius is a single-player real-time strategy and simulation video game developed by Elixir Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Games. It was released on 28 September 2004. The game is inspired by the spy thriller genre, and is set in an alternative 1960s–70s era. Most closely resembling Dungeon Keeper, the gameplay puts players in charge of a villainous force attempting to achieve global domination whilst fending off the forces of justice; to this end the gameplay is split between management of a base and the completion of "acts of infamy" in the rest of the world. The game has stylish, cartoon-like visuals and contains a great deal of…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Evil Genius holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium® III 800MHz processor, 128MB RAM and GeForce2 16Mb or equivalent. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.74 at Fanatical, 93% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Evil Genius launched on 28 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Evil Genius yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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