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Sugarcane Empire

Plant Sugarcane! Employ Pandas! Conquer the World! Sugarcane Empire is a story-based clicker game set in Chengdu, China and Kentucky, USA. Play as three generations of Chinese and American women. Experience how stories preserve us from death.

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Developer
Nacarat Game Labs
Publisher
Nacarat Game Labs
Release
January 13, 2022
4 years and 201 days ago
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About the Game

Sugarcane Empire is a story dressed up as a clicker farm sim. In 30+ minutes, meet three generations of Chinese and American women: a Chinese farmer, a Chinese-American professor, and an American college student. Experience their family's transforming story by running a sugarcane farm, employing pandas, and starting your own vanity space program.

Features:
- A story-game evolving through 3 stages: a text-based, minimalist clicker game; an illustrated, interactive narrative; and an 8-bit clicker farm sim.
- Farm sugarcane in 3 settings: from the confines of a hospital bed, at the farms of 1940's China, and in a pixel-art parody of 21st-century capitalism.
- Custom soundtrack by theimpliedbear
- Illustrations by Julia Lee
- Pixel art by neguritab
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