A typical game in Eco works something like this: a new server is started, and players are dropped in at the beginnings of civilization. You need to make tools, get food, build shelter, that sort of thing, preferably as a group with your fellow eco-vilians (that made-up word sounded better in my head). Some sort of world-destroying catastrophe looms in the future, so you need to build civilization to survive the meteor/earthquake/robot apocalypse. You eventually reach the point where players run in-game shops, set up their own businesses, perform experiments to research technology, and even propose and vote on laws that affix physical limitations on the world, such as having a tree-felling quota for everyone on the server.

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