Game2005

Darwinia

IndieStrategy

Developer Introversion Software

Darwinia is a 2005 real-time tactics and real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is the second game developed by Introversion Software, and is set within a computer environment that simulates artificial intelligence. It received favourable reviews and won three awards at the 2006 Independent Games Festival. A multiplayer sequel, Multiwinia, was released for Windows in 2008. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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  • Arvy @arvy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    FATUM RACING CLUB A race against time and fate in a digital vector world of early 2000s. This is a design concept inspired by the visuals of Wipeout, N, Darwinia and Colin McRae 2.0 Would you play a game like this?

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  • 🎃DX42🎃 @darkexcalibur42.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    Game design is "The art of getting players to take interesting action." I like this definition a lot. AW HELL YA! We get a Darwinia screenshot in this article? 10/10.

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  • 𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕒 𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕤𝕤 @veensaw.netBluesky · Oct 23, 2024

    Darwinia - a real time strategy video game with a lemmings vibe "Darwinia was created as a digital theme world for artificially intelligent polygons by Dr. Sepulveda. Housed in a massive network of surplus Protologic 68000 machines from the 1980s" 😊

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  • Z. BoogeyMann Zilla, Semi-Pro Ghoulball @pandangit.comBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    Going live for a bit with this old game I got, DARWINIA! www.twitch.tv/zmannzilla

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  • Trezy @trezy.codesBluesky · Nov 26, 2024

    28. Favourite game developer Introversion Software! They're the creators of several amazing games: Uplink (my fav hacking game), Darwinia/Multiwinia, Defcon, Prison Architect... and I've always enjoyed their devlogs.

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  • Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    I noticed today that Introversion Software has released its latest game, The Last Starship. Their prior work includes Defcon, Prisoner Architect, Darwinia, Uplink...going to check this out tonight. #indiedev #steam #spacegame store.steampowered.com/app/1857080/...

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  • Conn.RAR @connrar.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    Ooh these graphics are reminding me of that game Darwinia. It's funny that I went there over any older Amiga/DOS game, lol.

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  • Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Introversion carried on this tradition, I liked the random intros built into Darwinia more than anything in the game. youtu.be/vlmaXRF0hm4

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  • Ade the "Theic" 🧐 @stressedlocal.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    Still a brilliant game 😍👍🏻 #IntroversionSoftware were my favourite Indie Devs for years, after buying this game. Loved the gameplay and the meta (insert below the disc tray in the jewel case was on point👍🏻). I've bought almost all of their games, my favourite being Darwinia 😍

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  • Ade the "Theic" 🧐 @stressedlocal.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Never heard of that one, but "Uplink" by Introversion Software (2001) did 😎👍🏻 Brilliant Indie game 😍 They also released the games Darwinia, Scanner Sombre and Defcon.

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  • Victor Engström @victorengstrom.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2025

    I made 20+ wallpapers of Darwinia! 😀 (Very nostalgic game for me) Forced the screen to show 16K and got some really nice pics! 📷 Download links for high resolution -> sonigon.com/darwinia-wal... 🙂 #introversionsoftware #darwinia

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  • Will Pierce @willpierce.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2024

    No idea what the Nintendo playtest is going to be but the phrase “voxel Lemmings geoengineering strand game” is now stuck in my head Also vaguely recalls Darwinia for some reason

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  • Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2024

    I remember first playing Darwinia at an IGF exhibition at ACMI back in the day, it was the first time I played something that truly transfixed me, from the weird controls to all the wonderful sounds and music and visuals, I wanted to understand it, to be able to truly appreciate it.

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  • Alex Turell 📼🎧💙 @cocoloco3412.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    ohayalex, my cocolocos! today, i'll be playing a strange but interesting RTS game from 2005 called DARWINIA for the first time ever! now live on both youtube and twitch! see u there!💙 #VTuber #ENVTuber #VTuberUprising

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  • Sean Jordan | Sharing Great Games You Probably Never Played! @greatestgames.substack.comBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    10 OFF-THE-BEATEN-PATH #VIDEOGAMES (Dec 25) 7. Darwinia (2005) This minimalist real-time strategy game was one of the most prominent indie games of the first decade of the 2000s with good reason - it's a well-crafted experience with distinctive graphics and an interesting spin on the RTS genre!

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  • Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.ioBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    While I think singular individual is a little hard to pin down, the idea of the Indie Game Studio, as a business and group, I personally have to hand to Introversion Software. And Uplink and Darwinia predate Fez by about a decade.

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  • Visuwyg @visuwyg.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    This reminds me of Darwinia, haven't thought of that game for millenia!

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  • Challenge ProMode Social Media @nerevar.proBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    17. Darwinia, the first game from Prison Architect studio Introversion, a predecessor of the modern indie development model and a very interesting re-imagining of the RTS genre store.steampowered.com/app/1500/Dar...

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  • Intimidation Crab @intimidationcrab.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    Choose 20 games that greatly influence you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 20: darwinia #GameChallenge #Darwinia

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  • Onno @tinkerspider.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2024

    Never played Darwinia, i was more thinking William Gibson-like cyberspace game Have the player unlock areas by hacking nodes, but more like an action game 3D movement and view, neutral entities, guard entities etc etc

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  • Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2024

    Lots of vibes of the game Darwinia

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  • uncleeddie666.bsky.social @uncleeddie666.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Demo 186: Darwinia is a super interesting RTS from 2005 so I don't want to be unfair to it. I've found the gameplay a bit too slow for my taste, but it's definitely a game you should experience.

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  • sexyrobotfactory.bsky.social @sexyrobotfactory.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    Reminder that there's a game called Darwinia and whenever you booted it up you'd occasionally get one of those sick ass Amiga cracktros www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXsd...

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  • Marina Valenheart 🌺💚💖 @ishgardianangel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    3. An underrated game Darwinia Picture if you will a Tron-adjacent digital world populated by these very simple stick figure AIs, that gets invaded by an evil red virus Now picture them having a Final Fantasy lifestream, and funeral rites for fallen friends It shouldn't be profound, but kinda is

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  • Jack Lyttle @jacklyttle.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2025

    There's something else I love in games that I find difficult to explain - where the interface through which you play is in-game - Her Story, Duskers, The Roottrees are Dead, Darwinia, most hacker sims - that sense of the reality of the game bleeding into the real world.

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  • Multi Purr Puss :unverified: @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 21, 2025

    #BlackMirror S07E04 #Plaything was amazing! 🖖 🤓 edit: remember the #game #Darwinia (2005, by #Introversion)? 😉 👍

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  • David Stark - Zarkonnen @zarkonnen.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2024

    Inversion (PC, 2017) - long-awaited sprawling lo-fi procgen exploration game based on Roadside Picnic, by the makers of Darwinia.

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