Your job is to pass out rations in a war-torn country, with hardly enough to go around. You must tell the survivors "you only get one".

Who do you decide to feed? Do you want the soldiers to stay alive to protect the common folk? Do you save the women and children, the aged, the unemployed? Will you take bribes, or succumb to violence?

Their fates are in your hands.

Initially created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 28. The theme was "You Only Get One". We placed:

#3 Theme
#35 Overall
#43 Mood

Instructions
Click the ration to hand it to the current survivor in line, click the X card to deny a ration, or click the gun to eliminate.

Survive for 25 days.



Credits
Vu Ha - Code
Rose Peng - Art
Johan Soriao - Audio

Update 1/25/2021

  • Originally built using Flash back in Dec. 2013, Rations Please recently became unplayable since Flash is no longer supported. Due to popular demand,  we've decided to port the game from Flash to Unity so that it can continue being played in browser. Thanks for playing our game!
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(219 total ratings)
AuthorCosmic Adventure Squad
GenreSimulation, Strategy
Tags2D, flash, flixel, Ludum Dare, Pixel Art, Post-apocalyptic, Unity

Comments

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Saving the farmers produces more rations, but I chose to kill the farmers as it would equal the playing field for thieves and soldiers alike, even killing me would be of no benefit. Merchants are also kept in line and think twice before playing anyone else as supplies are so low and I chose to also eliminate the workng class, they have no structure of corruption to work off of, and they are either forced to engage in farming themselves, or they become their own merchants and ration their own divisions amongst those that have placed them as elitist individuals. Basically, I'm no tyrant, you absolutely have your own way, but from ME is limited. I am pushing them into freedom and independence that they are too lazy to even try for now that money means nothing and I had no interest in bribes. I want supplies. But even I can't have that save a few that I had to use in a legitimate act of selfishness that would NOT go the full 24 days either.


People seemed to hang on pretty well for about 6 days, I can assume children died as none appeared in my legitimate playthrough.


Edit: By killing those brainwashed by the old ways and wanting to latch on to the power structure, It allows new ones of any generation that did not have a place with that previous generation to now have a place, but foolishly, they all did not care for it.


Tip: When they offer money in desperation, that was my license to kill, reset is necessary when society is reduced to nothing by a society that led it there.

They gave me 10 children in a row on Day 3

Survived with 4 people because the game bugged out around day 14, skipped the gameplay phase and gave me the same result (deathless) each day

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just saved one person bc it is most effective rest  got killed by me

A fellow elite sigma I see

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I just have too many feelings to play this game.

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Well, that was rather horrifying. No matter how hard you try to be fair, ppl still going to die bc theres just not enough food. Only seven made it on my first run - and all children died despite me newer denying them food. The most heartbreaking part is growing numbers of rations in contrast with only few ppl to eat it. Makes you think a lot.

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Genocide Route

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Survived on my first game, two workers and a merchant

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Just kill all the unemployed, child and student

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Spared the merchants, workers and farmers.


Shot the unemployed and students to prevent stealing. Rather immorral but after playing the first time noticed how bad stealing in this game does to your progress.

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Killed everyone accept the farmers, and won with just one farmer left, the others died of illness, even though I fed them good, especially those who paid...

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i got bored so i shot the last guy

Lmaooo thats crazy

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2 farmers and a worker, Lets go!

After several tries, I made it. I had two farmers and one child.

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i just killed them all

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i am going to have to uninstall itch so i will see all of yo guys later i do not know when but this game has gotten me threw a lot of boring classes and i hope you all have a good day i will reply to this comment when i can but is has been a good run for me on this game see all of you guys later. and thank you iavier_leleel for talking to me and please continue the genocide Chane thank you all for the good times and i hope you make more good times and once again thank you.

i survived with 5 ppl yess

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i won with 36 rations

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I won by spamming the 'ration' and 'no fuck off' button.

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i like the gun

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hello American 

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hello (pulls out gun)

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hello gun

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i killed every child and unemployed im such a great person and it worked 

genocide.

genocide

genocide.

genocide

genocide

genocide

Random illness is lame. Farmers are the most important to keep a live, but not much you can do when random illness takes them out.

PLEASE....PLEASE tell me more of these types of games are on the way??

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i can shoot starving people

10/10 would recommend

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I survived with a kiddo :o

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First Time playing the game and I accidentally shot a child...Great game better than any Skyrim or Fallout Game

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i wanna play it but it doesnt load

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ya

survived first try with 3 humans bois such good game B3

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I killed everyone except 2 ppl and fed them for the rest of the days. I won :)

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i've been wanting to play this for months but it never loads :<

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I failed cause all people died. But I killed them myself, with the gun!

Anyway, nice game, I will try something else in my second playthrough

Si se pudo

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gunned everyone down by in my first go 10/10

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I loved the game Great job on everything. I got my people down to 2 with 5 days left then on day 23 the farmer died so it left me with a solider to win the game. 

bro that one guy just pay 14 ratio :skull:

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I had accidentally whittled the population down to a sustainable solo farmer, with enough food to go around. I thought I was finally going to win a game...then, random illness death.

Next game, I semi-intentionally whittled the population down to a couple of farmers and a kid. The farmers died of illness and violence, the kid starved.

Shot every non-farmer day 1. All but one of the farmers died of illness. One of the children came back to life, then died of illness. Amazingly, the last farmer survived (even though it was boring to keep him alive).

Frustrating. The only way you have any chance of survival is killing the non-farmers (or letting them die), and even then you can be screwed over by random deaths.

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My best: I give all ration on first day, and kill stealers to see which ones worth saving. First end of the day, I check how many farmers I got then next day all farmers must survive. 

This game is really unfair.

i killed 21 people by the 5th day

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