Like Austin Powers and No-one Lives Forever, Evil Genius is both homage and satire of the 60’s. Build a secret base, gain notoriety by completing daring missions, repel the forces of justice in real-time combat, and develop evil super-weapons to complete your nefarious master plan. You’re a malevolent mastermind bent on achieving global domination through the construction of the ultimate doomsday device. “And I thought Christmas only comes once a year!”Ĭertainly the most impactful $2 I’ve ever spent. I was hooked: 19 hours later I finished it (no, not all in one sitting, but about as close as one can get without eschewing other obligations).
A few days ago I finally got around to playing it. Some years ago, I bought Evil Genius from Steam during a holiday sale for $2.