A new odd city-building survival game has come out on May 1st, and it is called World Turtles. In it, the player is in charge of establishing a civilization of peaceful people who live on the seas and continents that are placed on the back of a giant turtle swimming through space.
A Civilization on a Giant Space Turtle
Players have to convince the Meeps, a people in the game, to join the cause of feeding and caring for the giant turtle. They have to unite the Meeps into a peaceful and sustainable society capable of carrying out the task. According to the developer, what was needed for success in the game was cooperation and not conquest. Apparently, the turtle would wander into the more treacherous parts of space and even meet others of its kind.
World Turtles was created by a single developer out of South Africa, and it is clearly a passion project by a person who wanted to see this specific game made. The game is a wholesome colony builder focused on sustainability, where the goal is to help the Meeps organize. The idea of a world turtle is familiar to many and is common in mythology. Some kind of a world turtle myth can be found in Chinese, Native American, and Hindu mythologies.
Turtles All the Way Down
World Turtles has a big goal and starts with the Meep tribe the player controls, exploring the turtleback and striving to unite the other tribes under a single banner. The Meeps have to establish economies, build a society, and figure out how they are supposed to take care of the Turtle as it swims through the universe. That’s not all, though, because once the turtleback knows world peace and the turtle is safe, the player launches the Meeps Space Program. From there, the Turtle can be directed through space to explore new sectors of space that also impact the conditions and climate of the world.