Gremlins, Inc.

About

Gremlins, Inc. is a turn-based strategy game where players control tiny capitalist gremlins in a steampunk world. Compete to amass wealth, political clout, and prestige by stealing resources, bribing officials, and sabotaging rivals. Each move involves calculating risks like arresting opponents or launching grandiose engineering projects to boost your standing. The game blends resource management with tactical deception, all set on a pocket watch turned into a bustling gremlin town. Available on PC, Mac, and Linux, it supports solo, co-op, and multiplayer modes. The game’s cutthroat mechanics and whimsical art style stand out. Players navigate a corrupt corporate landscape where backstabbing is both a necessity and a joy. With 72% positive reviews from 10,000 Steam owners, it’s praised for its clever strategy depth and replayability. The mix of direct competition and indirect sabotage ensures no two games feel alike. Co-op play adds a twist, forcing teams to balance collaboration with self-interest. It’s a sharp, cheeky take on board game strategy that rewards adaptability and cunning.

Storyline

You think that’s just a pocket watch in your hand, a watch that’s a bit late because you keep forgetting to wind it up? No, no and no – you couldn’t be further from the truth! What you carry around is a whole gremlin town packed into this tiny mechanism: a town with its own bank, its own casino… and even its own jail! Gremlins are the microscopic creatures that inhabit any mechanism that they can possibly infiltrate. If a watch or a telescope malfunctions, then it’s probably due to gremlins who took up a residence there. More than anything in life, gremlins value money, political power and prestige: prestige that one can claim after completing some sort of a grandiose engineering project. Aside from working on their own projects, gremlins mostly spend their time preventing other gremlins from building something even more grandiose. This they achieve through bribing officials and lying to the electorate, as well through stealing from their competitors - and outright arresting them.