Screeps: World

Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you.

Screeps: World is a programming, strategy and massively multiplayer game developed and published by Screeps and LLC.
Released on November 16th 2016 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 1,931 reviews of which 1,691 were positive and 240 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Screeps: World into these genres:

Programming Strategy Massively Multiplayer Open World Sandbox Logic Base-Building RTS Minimalist Difficult Economy Hacking Indie Colony Sim Idler Simulation Artificial Intelligence Building Asynchronous Multiplayer Management

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space

MacOS

Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space

Linux

Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Aug. 2024

The best part about this game is that it plays itself. The worst part about this game is that it takes a lot of effort to make it play itself.

Jan. 2024

Apparently this gem of a game suffered review bombing recently by players who got banned due to using an major exploit lately, so I'm leaving this review to counteract that; don't trust "recent reviews: mixed".

Jan. 2024

This is a great game. You get to code your guys and then watch them build and fight. It's an excellent skill-builder for coders, and there's a welcoming community of players who are eager to help new people get into the game. And no, I haven't played this game for 22 hours. I've played it for years. I just seldom use the Steam client to connect.

Dec. 2023

So, the 0.6 hours played are because the macOS version is broken and doesn't run, and you have to do so through either the website *or* run a community-provided client. Then it's okay, though you must buy from Steam instead of through the game's website, because the community client needs the official client installed. The game provides such a very large breadth of topics, from general program architecture to performance optimization, market efficiency to combat strategy and tactics, pathfinding to optimized creeps (your "agents" in the game world) configuration. that if you're like me and enjoy problem-solving it'll definitely scratch that itch. It is a bit on the slow, grinding side, given how the game process every player's actions, but you can always run your own private server and have that as your own scratch space for playing around with your bot before you publish it to the main servers to take reap the benefits of your hard work. As a reference, it took me around 2 months to get to RCL 8 (the highest room level in the game), but I was starting from one of the… *hem* dreaded open-source bots to which I made several improvements, some of which are public. Another thing that's really important is that your code is your progress , not how many rooms you have, not how full your storages are. You *will* have to start over multiple times at first, just to find a spot where you don't accidentally spawn into a neighbor's territory and get wiped, but there are places like that (hint: they're not the large swaths of empty rooms, those usually mean there's another bot keeping them that way). I've bought the lifetime unlock, since the prospect of the game seemed good enough to me and I wanted to support the developer, but there's also a free tier (a whole shard) where everyone is limited to 20 CPU, which makes the game fair to everyone. The three other shards are more… delicate to get into, as there's no limit there except for the game's processing and how high your control level is, and you can jump from one to the other through portals. The community has been great, there's a couple yearly events where various bots are pitted one against the other in various matching styles and goals, so I'd definitely recommend checking the Discord for help or just hanging out. TLDR; it's great, but definitely requires programming skills or at least willingness to learn them, it's definitely more of a "I'll hack on it for a couple of hours then see in a few days how it goes" than something that's immediately rewarding.

Dec. 2023

I've been playing the game for a long time, and it's a good challenge. It makes me think, and my javascript skills are getting better. There's some bitter players that got busted for running exploits and got banned, but the devs are quite fair.

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-50% 14.99€ 7.49€

8.4

1,691

240

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Developer

Screeps, LLC

Publisher

Screeps, LLC

Release 16 Nov 2016

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