You’re doomed from the start in ‘merciless’ survival city builder Dotage, but trying to survive the apocalypse is all part of the fun

As a city builder enthusiast and horrible mayor I’ve paved the way for plenty of disasters in my cities, like neglectfully letting peasants freeze by the dozens, losing my honey fortune to a heist, and chopping down a friendly enchanted talking tree just to get an amulet.

But in new turn-based roguelike city builder Dotage, your game ending in ruin is all but assured before you’ve even placed your first foraging hut. The elder of your village has delivered a prophecy of doom—and predicted a bunch of smaller catastrophes that are headed your way, too. Worse still, the old coot won’t shut his damn mouth about it so your industrious little peasants have to live and work in constant fear of the approaching End Times.