Uncivilized

At a glance

Uncivilized is a browser 4X strategy beta built around city development and a pitch of natural-language diplomacy with AI faction leaders. Consider it if negotiations are the part of strategy games you want to explore. The hosted beta and the public base-game repository are different choices: the documented AI diplomacy engine is a separate private module.

Good fit

Players curious about proposing alliances or trades in words alongside conventional map, research and combat decisions. The About page explains the intended activity. The public source is also interesting to study, but copying it alone does not recreate the advertised conversational experience.

Consider something else when

You want a self-contained public repository with the complete AI game, or an independently tested verdict on diplomacy quality. The base code supplies no-op chat functions until a separate plugin is registered. Hosted access and that private engine remain dependencies for the central AI appeal.

Start here

For hosted play, Sign Up to Play asks for a username and email and says it will send a link. The review stopped before registration. Before choosing a local build instead, inspect the repository’s plugin boundary: the build checks for a neighbouring private diplomacy module and otherwise builds without it.

Cost and requirements

About describes a free-to-play beta. Local setup has a JavaScript build and Python backend; the manifest requires Node 20+, while the README still says 18+. AI chat needs the separate module and a model-provider key. A public licence file does not supply that private module or cover model usage costs.

Limits to know

Research covered the hosted entry gate, README, manifest, licence file and selected plugin/build code. No turn, negotiation, saved game or local build was run. Hosted conversation quality and memory remain untested, and the public material did not establish chat/save retention rules. Repository licence and setup descriptions also need reconciliation before relying on them for a deployment.

Related work

• WC2 Agentic / Defense of the Agents: strategic commands through a game API (context)

Still unclear

• How are hosted diplomacy conversations and saved-game data retained and deleted?