History VideoGame / EvilGenius2

[[https://evilgeniusgame.com/en/news/408 Released on March 30, 2021]], ''Evil Genius 2'' was first announced in 2013. Unlike the previous Facebook game revivals, ''Evil Genius Online'' and ''Evil Genius WMD'', ''Evil Genius 2'' is a fully-featured PC sequel to the original base-building title. Updates on the game's development were regularly posted to [[https://evilgeniusgame.com/en/news its development blog]] on [[https://evilgeniusgame.com/ the official website]], as well as smaller snippets on the game's [[https://twitter.com/evilgenius/ social]] [[https://www.facebook.com/EvilGeniusGame/ media]] [[https://www.instagram.com/evilgenius_game/ channels]]. The game was later ported to consoles in November 2021.

[[https://evilgeniusgame.com/en/news/408 Released on March 30, 2021]], ''Evil Genius 2'' was first announced in 2013. Unlike the previous Facebook game revivals, ''Evil Genius Online'' and ''Evil Genius WMD'', ''Evil Genius 2'' is a fully-featured PC sequel to the original base-building title. Updates on the game's development were regularly posted to [[https://evilgeniusgame.com/en/news its development blog]] on [[https://evilgeniusgame.com/ the official website]], as well as smaller snippets on the game's [[https://twitter.com/evilgenius/ social]] [[https://www.facebook.com/EvilGeniusGame/ media]] [[https://www.instagram.com/evilgenius_game/ channels]]. The game was later announced to be ported to consoles sometime in the winter of 2021.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As with the original, you can execute minions to provide other nearby minions with a short-lived boost to their performance. However you can ''also'' execute Henchmen now, which is the only way to get rid of them permanently - useful if you've found their skills don't suit your playstyle and you're already at your capacity for Henchmen. It's also mandatory if you're going for the GottaCatchEmAll achievement to ''recruit'' every available Henchman, and, by its own admission, that means;
-->''Some betrayal required.''

** There's a fast-forward feature so that, among other things, the player isn't sitting around waiting for ages for a certain number of needed minions to be trained up for a mission or for vital research to be completed.

* EarlyGameHell: Even on easy mode, building your base and expanding it can be difficult - since building a vault ''first'' actually isn't a good idea.

* {{Irony}}: Maximilian, whose [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color]] is Yellow, has a line complaining how yellow everything is.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: It's still possible for agents from a destroyed Force of Justice to appear on the island during the endgame, even though the cutscenes treat blasting their headquarters with the superweapon as being rid of them forever. Similarly, minions of all Crime Lords and Super Agents will appear during the LastStand regardless of which ones you've recruited/killed.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: A great number of the more frustrating elements of the first game have been addressed:

** Tourists now stay in the cover operation instead of wandering all over the island and inevitably getting inside your base. Additionally, the cover operation is ''much'' cheaper than the Hotels of the first game; this makes it worth building up for both distracting agents and for generating passive income from the endless stream of tourists, especially after a couple of patches have boosted the effectiveness of the Operation.

** Robot minions from the associated DLC. They have higher stats than human minions, but they still require dedicated facilities to replenish those stats, they can't be sent on missions instead of human minions, and they explode and set everything and everyone around them on fire if they die.

** The Construction Depot item, which is supposed to remove the need of having minions run all the way to the helipad to get new lair furnishings, then run all the way to where you want them set up. Thing is they take up a lot of space and can only be placed in a lab, so they have to be positioned strategically close to where you're likely to build in the future, while also not interrupting other things you need to keep your operation running, to have a point. Also, it's a top-tier unlockable, so by the time you get far enough through a playthrough to have access to it, you'll probably be pretty well settled into your base's design, and the aforementioned strategic placement probably won't seem like it's worth the effort.

* AcceptableTargets: The art world is a pretty consistent target of the game's teasing.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: A considerable level of research is required to unlock such arcane secrets as using stairs to explore the third dimension of your lair, or arming your minions with handguns. Likewise there are things that are unlocked through some rather arbitrary means, such as not being able to install ''slot machines'' in your casino until you unlock the Spindoctor minion type, which in the initial release only happened a good bit through the game (a later update added the Spindocter with the first tier of unlockable specialists, mitigating this slightly).