It’s time to fight back against your oppressors and install an evil dictator in Animal Farm, coming soon to mobile and PC.
Well, it is 2020, and dictators are sort of a great threat to civilization these days. It only makes sense that a game would come out touting the cautionary tale of Animal Farm so that we all make the right decisions. You know who you are.
But in case you skipped high school English, Animal Farm is the 1944 book by George Orwell, the same English author you might remember from 1984. Animal Farm tells the story of a group of farm animals that rise up against their human oppressors with the intent of creating a fair and just society where nobody gets eaten, but instead they wind up with a brutal dictatorship.
The story is an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917 that led to Joseph Stalin becoming de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. Which, y’know, didn’t exactly turn out all that great for your average Russian.
Anywhoodle, now there’s a game about Animal Farm that’s coming later this Autumn. It was first announced way back in 2017 by The Dairymen, a brand new publisher composed of industry veterans like Andy Payne, founder of Just Flight and AppyNation, and Imre Jele, founder of Surgeon Simulator’s Bossa Studios. Helping on the development side is Nerial, best known for their Reigns franchise of medieval ruler simulators that boil down government to a series of yes/no questions.
Animal Farm is described as an adventure game where you choose which animals’ advice to follow and which to ignore. In this way, players influence the series of events that will later define how the farm turns out. You might end up with Napoleon the pig in charge (as happens in the actual book–spoilers) or you might actually get the happy utopia that the animals long for.
There’s no release date yet, but we do know it’ll come out on PC via Steam and mobile later this fall.
Source: The Dairymen
