Neat little game! I like the player choice and population evolution mechanic. Functionally, everything looks really good. The only feedback I can think of would be letting players see more stats about their population or how the traits they chose affected the outcome. Amazing work!

It works, but it requires a lot of setup and is a bit confusing if you don't know your way around visual studio. I do like text-based games, and it did in fact work like it was supposed to! However, it would have been nice to see more of what was happening on the backend (stats, why my ald is dying, etc.).

Steps: Download -> Unzip Files -> open folder -> open the aldhome folder on the screen shown -> open main.cpp file in visual studio -> run in visual studio.