Truly all-timer videogames let you do three things: Toil under the yoke of an oppressive overlord, pioneer new frontiers, and eat enough cheese to feed Whitstable. With those facts in mind, consider me very curious to get my hands on Whiskerwood, the new city-builder/elaborate production chain sim from Minakata Dynamics, maker of Railgrade.
Revealed today, Whiskerwood is a sort of colony-management sim that replaces the age-old conflict between proletarian and bourgeois with the age-old conflict between mouse and cat. Your job is to oversee a load of rodent serfs—called Whiskers—who have been press-ganged by a bunch of cats (the Claws) into shipping out to the New World, where their job is to generate as much delicious profit as possible from the colony's exploitation. Oh, and, you know, keep themselves alive in the process. I guess. If they can help it.
