Eden Industries’ political RPG Citizens of Earth might have failed to make its campaign goal on Kickstarter, but it’s still going to see the light of day thanks to publishers Atlus, who’ve picked up the title for downloadable distribution. There’s a new trailer out now.
Citizens of Earth casts you as a vice-president of… somewhere, who’s forced to recruit his constituents in order to combat a threat to the planet Earth. Here’s how Atlus described the game in a press release yesterday.
The retro-inspired Citizens of Earth pits players as the second-highest-paid bureaucrat in the land. The game begins just after winning a long, drawn-out candidacy, and the VP returns to his hometown for some taxpayer-funded rest and relaxation. But after just one night passes, the VP awakens to find the world gone berserk! As elected official he has two responsibilities: investigate what’s caused people to go crazy… and delegate as much of the dirty work as possible. Citizens of Earth has 40 wacky citizens to recruit and send into battle.
No release date yet, but the game is apparently coming to Steam, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U sometime this year.
