Critical Collapse box concept

(Note that I'm arguing not from an artist view, but from a marketing view, i mean no disrespect on my post.)

From a marketing stand point the box isnt gonna catch the eye of the consumer, you will need a more clear and crisp picture and idea of the game, the color is to monochromatic, you need a better color palette to hold the interest of a consumer to even pick up the box and look at it more. Red is a good eye catcher, maybe a red plummeting line graph and people in a panic with a blue backdrop would sell better.

The other problem i see is that your game box looks very depressing, which fits with the theme, but people dont want to buy a depressing looking game. Consider the game Fallout 3, the game is a post-apocalyptic theme, but look at the box or image, you have a pip-boy (the cartoonic character) that is smiling, the colors are a bit dull but the nuclear explosions are contracting the background, being the eye catcher. Fallout 3 shares the same theme as your game, to a degree.

It's a complex game, and complexity and details go hand in hand.

So, to tempt and to draw in to the box the type of gamer who might be most likely to find your game interesting, when played, consider using the box to showcase more details, rather than use the obscurity approach. Not necessarily details from the game, itself, but various things that reflect the complexity of life's issues that the game deals with.

Even if you have generic nations in the game, you can still use real world weapons systems, as one example, to grab the eye. Some fabricated newspaper headlines could be used to mimic economic appeal, for example - or pretty much any non-military aspect. Maps and map details are often interesting. Maybe a collage, type, approach, although more orderly for the box's sake.