Despite my love for management sims and all my best intentions when playing them, something always ends up going wrong. The real game isn't to see how long I can keep the charade up, but how much I can manage to get done within the relatively short window of peace before everything goes to Hell.

The fact that Sintopia takes place in Hell half the time probably should have warned me about how well my antics would go, but I didn't take the hint. Instead, I started my new job as manager of Hell and overlord of the humus, a sentient population of chickpeas.

Sintopia is kind of like two games in one. The overworld plays like a god game that has you casting spells to influence the humus. They go about their daily business with pretty limited intervention from you, farming crops, cutting down t

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