It's inevitable that a game with a local area you focus on would get that 'multiplayer solitaire' tag, but I think that misses a point the game's making. If you want to succeed in Daybreak, you have to coordinate and communicate — there's so much information going around at any given point that you'll end up struggling to coordinate and communicate. It won't happen naturally. You have to step back and communicate, because the game won't force you to. Maybe it doesn't incentivize communication enough (though I think winning is incentive.)

That's another way the game works thematically: Coordination and communication are key to climate action. Individual efforts aren't enough. I like the way the game doesn't force cooperative action, but it gives you the tools to do so.

Sure, the cross-player coordination isn't particularly huge in scope, but I think that's OK. This game has a vision for what it wants to be, and that's a game where action is taken locally, but coordination has to happen globally.