"I may have gotten a bit more involved in this war than I was originally planning" seems like something the Greek gods might have said during the Illyad

"The entire nation is built around the idea that 'We love beer'." I'm just going to headcanon some elves just had a massive drunken party and someone went, "You know what? We should declare ourselves an independent nation!", and that's how that happened.

Jon, choosing the Elves at the end as though he hasn’t spent the least time disrupting them, driving them to unnecessary war and accidentally raining ruinous land bridges on them all game

This is the god game I have been asking for for decades. Being a god isn't about deciding for your creations directly. It's about doing whatever the flip you want and leaving them to their own devices!

Of course, Jon gets limitless cosmic power, and his first act is to turn reality into Total War: Middle Earth.

haven't watched yet, but Jon calling himself a benevolent God should never be trusted...

Jon: *throws a plague at the most populous race in the world* Also Jon: "Humans are no longer the biggest kingdoms!"

3:58 "Fortunately, I'm *God* and this is why we have the Life Eraser." - God, 2022, after coming back from His three-year vacation and seeing what we got up to in His absence.

When you said there isn't music yet, I thought you were going to say because they haven't invented it yet. They should make music be something that is unlocked with the tech tree.

oh for the love of... the last thing Jon needs is another game where he gets to be god. I would of thought Claire had banned him from playing these.

The God of the bible: Parts the sea to prevent his chosen people from being slaughtered. Jon as God: Parts the sea to cause a slaughter. 17:25

This game has a strong potential as an election prediction mechanism at the next opportunity.

I've been following the development of this game for a couple of years now, so glad you're playing it!

43 minutes of watching kingdoms and cultures evolve with jon occasionally nuking them or blessing them with chickens did NOT prepare me for the words "giant crabzilla" or what followed also the hilarity of "Pise" dying as soon as jon made everyone declare war on everyone is not lost on me

Those poor peaceful orcs, they just wanted to be alone and beat other orcs up, but the Mad God Jon forced them to fight, then decimated their population several times over.

Jon: “maybe there should be a bear next to the person” Me: “you had my curiosity, now you have my attention”

>Selects the biggest nuke in human history Jon: that may have been to big

HOnestly, just watching these little cultures do their own thing is way more interesting than it should be. Props to the developer!

Oh wow, I never thought I’d see this on the channel. I’ve been playing it since it was a very basic mobile game. Insane to see an originally tiny developer grow large enough to get coverage like this.

48:00 - 48:08 Thus ends the Kingdom of Egg, not with a bang, but with a whimper. But only because it flew under Jon's radar. Too bad they never managed to ally with the Beer and Food people.

I also find it comforting that, even in these uncertain times, placing the control of the world in Jon’s hands still ends in radioactive slag.

I feel like someone could use this as a fantasty worldbuilding generator

2:50 - At this point, Jon is just setting up someone else’s RTS game... spawning in corners of the map... researching tech to claim land... and he’s just gonna be a spectator isn’t he?

Jon: Gives everyone on the planet the plague Everyone on the planet starts dying Jon: *Surprised Pikachu Face*

I’ve actually watched a world in which a kingdom just survived by getting a city on a island just before the homeland was taken over

A game like this would be great for a livestream.

“Here’s a fun one by the way, Covid!”-Jon, 43:34

Humanity winning out of pure spite on a technicallity is the most accurate summary of our race I have ever seen.

Jon at the beginning of the video: Finally, a god game where I don’t have to be benevolent, or nice but can instead be murderous! Jon during the rest of the video: Alright, to be fair to everyone, I will give them all the same amounts of trees.

Jon, I think you might be a Greek god lol Also, the humans behaved very believably human

Jon: I'll cure this virus. See, I AM a benevolent god. Jon, 5 seconds later: how about zombies???

Not a benevolent god, not a mean god... mostly a clumsy "Ooopsie" god.

"It appears the age of humanity is over." "Hmm, I wonder why?" *Flashback to him infecting the entire world.

Interesting game. If this taught me anything though, it's that Orcs, Humans, Dwarves and Elves are all equally bad at Age of Empires II.

As a man named will looking away hearing "it's Will!" Thru me off

Next time: one of the humans refuses to sacrifice to Jon, so Jon refuses to let the human boats land

Bill Wurtz: “Humans are whole again, then they broke again.” Bill Wurtz: “Ahh! Said the Woca Empire, getting so small it almost doesn’t exist anymore.”

The WIW popping up over and over and over again in the end was just perfect. They were all in boats. Nuking the land meant nothing to them. Humanity and their boats won it.

Jon was clearly Zeus in a past life.

I remember 2 years ago I played the app and then I started waiting for the full release. This is a lot better than I thought. Alright Jon, we need a political landscape battle like you had with worms a while back.

Always amazing, how good Jon is at live commentating. Others would need a big script and voiceovers.

OMG - please, drop a video like this once a month. I love the commentary, how you roll with the country names, and can call the shots as they land. Definitely win material here regardless how quickly the game progresses! 😂💚👍🏽

I was going to suggest this game in the next Patreon. I’m so glad you are playing it. I’ll enjoy watching this.

Man i love this game, I've been following and playing since early on in development and it's just steadily been filled with more and more stuff consistently for years. There's so much more depth than just watching the silly little men run around. For example, there's height to each block and also temperature, that's why you get deformation and water flowing in to bombed land. My favorite part of all of this and why i got it originally though is the AI civs. Originally, while decent, they were pretty basic and either went to war or expanded. These lil dudes would literally swim armies across the ocean and drown sometimes, there were no boats. But now, they're actually pretty smart for what it is, and there's a decently complex process as to why they do things and also the result of those things. I have some worlds that have gone on for a looong time, and long lost civilisations of extinct races still have an impact to a degree on todays world because they left behind some crazy legendary weapons or armour, which was plucked from dead kings in war and passed down from king to king. It's almost nostalgic to hover over those weapons and see the name of the creator and civ, remembering how they once conquered half the world, and now all that's left of them is this ancient object still in use. You really do start rooting for these dudes, and as god you can sometimes give them a lil (or fuken huge) nudge in the right direction if you wish. Anyway, hats off the the devs. They keep pumping out good, fun content and they don't seem to slow down.

Crusader kings shows why Jon should never be allowed to be king. This game shows why Jon should never be allowed to be god.

Are you John, are you a benevolent god?

Imagine a world where building bridges inevitably leads to genocide.

Thank you for showcasing this! has been an absolute blast, can't wait to see how this goes

Humans: **secure a tactical position** God Jon: “No.”

"And then there is going to be....CHICKENS. A RAIN OF CHICKENS." 10/10 MATN is Sheogorath in disguise

This is not a Jonocracy; this is a Jontatorship.

I just watched your awards ceremony for 2021 (the only ceremony I watched...) I found it very fair and even handed because you asked "What is it, in and of itself?" and I say Well Done Dragon! =)

It needs some serious theology to explain mass drowning into "benevolence". Thank god, such silly things happen only in games.

I'm so glad you found this I've played it while watching a lot of your videos

Awesome dude. I flippin love this game. Great video!

Can I give this more than 1 like? One of your funniest and most entertaining videos yet, I was laughing out loud at times. Bravo!

This is an amazing video. Keep it up! I'd like to see more like this.

This was brilliant! I hope you do more episodes of this.

I hope this comes back. I loved this hilarious video.

Hecking love this stuff. Jon commentating is always a joy. Anyone else wanna see Jon try to recreate the Trojan war just to see what happens?

I loved this. It's the kind of game I would never play, but Jon's commentary makes it incredibly entertaining.

His light panic at nuking the center island and going “I NUKED THE GOLD” absolutely killed me

Been playing this game for 2 years, and I'm so glad it's getting more popular! :)

I have been considering buing the game for so long :) thanks a lot for playing it, Jon :) You will make the decision much easier :)

Ususally I'd never pay much attention to a game like this, but the way this video presented it, I'm feeling really inclined to go and buy it myself. Very nice. 👍

I love his sports commentary on imaginary geopolitics.

With all the youtubers making videos on this game, it’s probably about to get a major boost in popularity

So glad you played this game. This game has been so fun for so long and has come a long way. Also the game’s community on Reddit is hilarious

This video gave me goosebumps, idk why. This game is just so fun, I can't believe I'm not playing it, *right now* !

This entire video was gold.

I've been playing this for a long, long time - Never thought I'd see it here!

Played this game on my phone last year to pass some time, was genuinely impressed by its depth and silliness. God I love being God.

the "life eraser" made me laugh /o\

this is so utterly perfect for a livestream- I really hope you do one sometime!

42:00 "If we just hide the bodies, no one will ever know."

I need Jon simulating the Trojan War here with him acting as the Olympians. I need so much more of this Jon!!!

I've had this on my phone for years and years. It's brilliant.

Jon the instigator: god of sand banks and chickens

Woah I never thought it see you play this, I’ve been making little dystopias for years now. Have fun.

I was expecting this to be boring, but its actually really interesting to see all this play out

50:55 your nice plain soil wiped out a sizable chunk of the human army that were embarking into the fleet of boats xD

This looks like Civilization, except you play as the map.

This looks real fun. What a treat!

I've been waiting for you to play this game for almost two years now. This should be good

The poor Orcs, they just wanted to chill out on their island and have a good time, not causing anyone any trouble, they were even the first to invent peace talks and end a war. You monster jon

Love how wiw kept surviving nukes until hundreds of the biggest nuke in history were dropped on them

Payday is days away and Jon is already furnishing my to-buy list

A live stream of this would be AMAZING.

I would love more videos of this game specifically, like this in general.

This is a lot of fun lol pls continue

I've been playing this game on my phone since it came out. Might actually be one of my favorite mobile games and favorite God game

Loving Jon getting a little too smitey and dropping the tsar bonba.

This is like an amazing story creator. Makes me think of dwarf fortress.

More of this! Yes more of this would be good! Maybe go into the other elements of the game, like napalm!

not gonna lie. id like to see another of this

So who else watched the outro all the way to the end, expecting to see another little human settlement spring up out of nowhere? XD

I I been like this game for over a year, it’s good to see it grow,

oh baby, where has this been for my whole life?

The reason the main island of Pise just died was because you didn’t fully get rid of the plague, it’s an incredibly difficult thing to fully get rid of since if you miss even one person it will spread again and it spreads very quickly

A livestream of this when its a bit more fleshed out would be a great time.