Dumbocalypse
Why We Picked Dumbocalypse
The premise is an app for people who lost their wits, and your job is to answer their questions without wrecking the species. Dumbocalypse hands you four dials to hold: population, extinction, misery and joy. Answer badly and one of those dials falls off the board. That is a strange brief for a browser game, and the four-way balance is what turns each reply into a real decision.
How to Play
Three things decide whether a run here goes well:
- Read each posted question, then pick the reply that keeps all four measures level.
- Hold four measures in balance: too many people, extinction, misery and joy are all failures.
- Answer the difficult questions first, while the numbers still have room to recover.
Editor’s Note
Comedy premise, spreadsheet spine. Sessions run short, the game asks for reading rather than reflexes, and the four ways to fail are listed before you answer a single question. Ranked 132 of 183 in Adventure. On the record: 132 of 183 on the adventure shelf, 4.7 out of 5 from 37 ratings, and 1,008 plays.
Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.
Publisher Description
Supplied by the game’s publisher; reproduced as-is.
Professor Brain was experimenting to create waves that increase the brain power, like it can make you really smart, but his experiments went horribly wrong (as always) and made every person that came in contact with the waves DUMB.
Now they don't even know what to do and how to survive in their daily lives. In this disastrous situation professor got an idea to make an app where people can post their questions and get replies for their problems. Don't look surprised there is an app for literally anything these days. So he quickly makes an app and puts YOU in charge to answer all the questions.
Your job is to reply people the best you can in order to keep the balance of this planet. Just be cautious
Don't populate the earth too much
Don't make the humans go extinct
Don't make them too sad
Don't make them too happy
See how simple this was. Now go on help those poor souls and don't forget to have fun!
