The Underground King Demo

Every sim game must provide the players with some kind of objective to work toward, otherwise things get boring in a rush. Whether it’s to build a great city, manage a factory or take care of a family, it’s the challenge to do better that keeps you coming back for more. However, there’s a dire need of new ideas in the genre, because people are pretty tired of medieval strategy games in which you have to build empires.

The Underground King is a very intriguing racing/strategy game in which you have to build a racing team from the ground up and use all sorts of unusual vehicles to compete in even weirder competitions. It can be a bit disorienting at first, but after you understand the general idea and start to work toward victory the mechanics become very engaging and enjoyable.   As such, you have to recruit unstable individuals around town, build racing vehicles using scrap from the junkyard, and then use them to compete in silly tournaments that take place in a variety of interesting situations. Whether you use tractors across crop fields or rudimentary drag machines around actual roads, there’s always something new to compete in.

Since a big portion of your time is spent looking at the overall city map, there are many random events that diversify the experience, including some that allow you to choose the best strategy. Speaking of which, most of the content is procedurally generated anyway, which means that no two playthroughs should be the same, so the replay value is through the roof.   As far as the graphics are concerned, the hand-drawn artwork is very smooth and enjoyable, especially if you do not mind the silly characters and bright colors. Given the theme of the game, on the other hand, they are very well-chosen to help with the atmosphere. The same can be said about the interface, although the font can be a tad difficult to read sometimes.

It’s always nice to see new ideas in the video games world, The Underground King comes with plenty of them. Hence, if you want to see the project reach its conclusion as quickly as possible, you can contribute to the Kickstarter project and speed things along a bit.