Evil Genius 2: World Domination Deluxe Edition

Evil Genius 2: World Domination Deluxe Edition is currently 96% off on Fanatical — down to $2.39 from $59.99.

At 96% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Evil Genius 2: World Domination Deluxe Edition reaches on Fanatical — near its typical floor.

That works out to $57.60 off the Fanatical list price of $59.99.

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How it plays

You pick an island, you build a lair, and you spend the rest of your time optimizing the business of being a supervillain. That’s the whole pitch, and it’s a good one. You carve out tunnels and rooms inside a mountain hideout, slot in facilities for your minions to work and train in, and balance a cover operation up top so tourists and agents don’t get suspicious about the screaming coming from below. Minions level up from disposable grunts into specialists, and you can bring in Henchmen, bigger, more capable units built around particular playstyles, to back them up. Meanwhile the Forces of Justice keep sniffing around, so you lace your lair with traps, the kind that are more fun when you chain them together than when you rely on just one. All of that supports the real objective: running a stream of schemes around the globe to fund and unlock progress toward building your Doomsday Device. It’s a management sim wearing a spy-movie costume, and the loop of build, staff, defend, scheme repeats in a way that keeps escalating rather than stalling out.

Who it’s for

If you liked the original Evil Genius, or you just have a soft spot for base-building management games with a sense of humor, this is squarely aimed at you. Fans of lair-building, minion micromanagement, and tongue-in-cheek spy parody will find exactly what they’re looking for. It also suits people who enjoy games where the fun comes from systems interacting, traps working with room layout, minions leveling into roles, rather than twitchy action. It’s less of a fit if you want fast-paced combat or a tightly scripted story campaign, since the appeal here is sandbox tinkering and slowly building up an operation rather than following a tight narrative arc.

Is it worth it?

For the right player, this is the kind of game that earns its keep over a long stretch of time rather than a single weekend. Base builders like this tend to have a steep front-loaded learning curve and then a long tail of just enjoying the hum of a well-run operation, so the value holds up well if you’re into that genre. It’s a strong pickup during a sale for anyone who’s been curious about it but hasn’t pulled the trigger, since it’s not the kind of game you blow through in an afternoon and shelve. If you already know you bounce off management sims, no discount changes that calculus. But for genre fans, it’s the sort of title worth grabbing when the price dips rather than waiting for full price.

Quick facts

Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Developer and Publisher: Rebellion. Platform: PC. Release date: March 30, 2021.