Evil Genius 2: World Domination

Gud Game

After 46 hours, I finally pushed to complete the game.. and what a fun addictive game it was. I've had it in my library for a couple of years and only now in August 2025 gave it a chance. Definitely worth whatever they're charging for it these days. There is plenty of game play to keep you entertained for many hours. I will probably do another play through with a different genius and play a different type of build. I played Emma on Normal and stuck to a deception heavy playstyle. Definitely research things as fast as you can. Start with multiple whiteboards and research everything that requires using those. Then get rid of them and move on to impact analyzers and research all of those. Repeat cycle with different research stuff. I feel like it definitely made things easier. You'll eventually have a bunch of science based minions that can do other stuff in the control room for you after you researched everything. I'd give this game a 9/10. Art direction is really fun and playful. Sound design is great. The music stands out to me a lot. I find myself humming the music while I'm not playing sometimes. Switching the time to "Fast-Forward" in game causes everything to pitch up, which can be funny for certain things the minions do. Cut-scenes are sort of lacking in the game. I mean, they exist.. But you can tell this is where they put probably the least effort into the game. Not to say they're necessarily bad, they're just kind of whatever. Additionally, when I completed my playthrough and enthroned myself, there was an actual CGI cut-scene, but unfortunately, there was zero audio. I'm not sure if that was by design, or my game bugged out, but that was rather unfortunate... To play for 40+ hours and get a 1 minute, no audio cut-scene was kind of weak. But, gameplay was the focus of my review. It's really fun. I would love to see a 3rd installment of Evil Genius some day. There's a lot more that could be done with this game that would be really fun.