Robocraft
As you can see by my time with this game I have plenty of experience with it and have been playing for years now.
I have to say what was once an amazing game has now been turned into an aggravating, annoying, shell of what it once was. What could have been a groundbreaking game is now just bland and uninteresting due to the lack of effort by Freejam.
Many questionable decisions by freejam has turned this once amazing game into tedious grind with no payoff.
The CRF:
When I first started playing the only weapon was the smg. I have seen every major update and change come and go. The first and most prominent thing wrong with this game is the CRF, or the Robot shop. Before the shop was added, every player had to build their own bot. For better or worse. Thats why the tagline for this game is “Build Drive Fight” with build being first. Since the start of this game it wasnt just about how well you did in battle but how well you built your bot. They went hand in hand. Those who took the time and effort to build a good bot, were rewarded by doing well in the battles. Now that they have the CRF players can buy any OP bot of the moment and never have to build a thing. Essentially doing away with half of the game and arguably the most interesting aspect of it.
– Real player with 2416.1 hrs in game
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TLDR I do not recommend this game, not even if you paid me to. Links in info, please look.
I recommended this game quite a while ago and honestly used to love it and support it. However, the game design has gone ways that are just unapealing, unchallanging and quite bothersome to me. I started playing this game because I like building robots, and at the time of me playing, it was the only game I knew about that was of this sort. However, as time went on, I saw other similar games, and I also saw good suggestions for robocraft, not get implemented in game, while bad suggestions and ideas did. Seb, one of the game devs seems to think our negative reviews are jokes, but this just shows you how seriously they take our criticism because its their game and they want to take it the way they want, the way that makes them the most money and scares off the most logical players and makes way for children who have fat wallets for GambleCraft 2.0 open your wallet addition. Well, now they are on damage control and posting fake apologies, but its a bit too little and a bit too late. Dont apologize, fix this game and revert far far back to when it was once a good game. I dont care about all the time you spent on it, you ruined it. You fix the game and you will fix the reviews by doing so. Until than, keep laughing freescam, but if you go out of buisness, dont expect me to not laugh because it was YOUR fault. I dont want you to fail, but you seem dead set on doing so. I could list all the things I hate about how the game went but seb will just say get used to it. https://twitter.com/sebify/status/726373014854615040 #Game dev, FreeScam games https://twitter.com/sebify/status/677895687548350465 https://twitter.com/TomCat__86/status/728177749706186753 oh and dont forget, they will ban you for talking about other games or having valid cricitism on bad updates. http://steamcommunity.com/id/Juvar23/recommended/301520/ What other company do you know of that is that insecure? Hell I cant think of any. Whoops, I talked about how the update is horrible. BAN, Whoops I talked about a game thats better than robocraft, BAN. http://steamcommunity.com/app/301520/discussions/2/364040166681997039/ it also appears the company freejam that puts out robocraft is owned by a mobile gambling game company and freejam owes them over 1 million dollars of debt due in september. http://robocraftgame.com/forums/topic/will-robocraft-be-adversely-affected-because-74-of-freejam-owned-by-hyperion/
– Real player with 1113.8 hrs in game
Gear Up
Gear Up
Gear Up is a wonderful little FPS game with ongoing development.
The P2W Claims
I think I should probably get this out of the way first.
Some people apparently get the impression that the game is P2W. It’s really not.
Unlike games true to P2W where you can recklessly spam in-game premium upgrades or keep throwing money until you win, all buying the basic and premium packages does is give you the ability to save 3 vehicles, unlimited storage, and access to all parts. It does NOT have direct in-game premium currency purchases that give players an unfair advantage. The game does not even have an option for microtransactions. I don’t even know where these accusations come from.
– Real player with 690.6 hrs in game
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I have been following Gear Up since I first saw it on Greenlight. It actually caught my eye because it looked like a fun, generic tank game. So I signed up for alpha, and months later the developers handed out keys for Premium to existing testers. That’s how I ended up with a paid copy of early access to a generic tank game, and have in the process found it to be substantially more.
To be honest, there’s really only so much you can expect from this type of game. It’s not going to have photo-realistic graphics, or perfect part-balancing; especially in its early stages. But for what it is, it really is quite fun. Even though it has a leveling/ranking system, I don’t really need incentive of any kind to keep playing it. You just sit down with your favorite build and blow things up.
– Real player with 127.3 hrs in game
Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay
I’ve come to detest this horrible promotional demo for a single reason! And if you’re not an achievement hunter you’re not going to care, but it has one singular, terrible achievement called:
“Lightning Reflexes”
Catch every repair part delivered to you.
And it’s not bad because it’s a challenging thing to do, it’s bad because it is SO poorly made. Basically you’re giving these tiny tweezer arms, while (mostly) two part are fired at you in quick succession at torpedo speed, giving you a (literal) split second to catch them. AND the game doesn’t seem to properly register you catching them, it only seem to register like 50% of the time. With parts becoming smaller as you progress, which makes them seem to register even worse. ON TOP OF THAT, you’re not allowed to miss a single part, or you have to start the whole horror show over again, and there’s a good 1/2 minute wait period in between appearances of each droid, which can not be skipped, and there’s nothing to do since it’s just a simple promotional demo.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
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A simple, but sweet, and unshort experience. Looking at it right now, it even has achievements, ha! I got 9 of 22. Anywho, nice to see the Star Wars people using a newer version of the Unreal Engine. This is basically the robot repair demo, in spaaaaaace. 10-13 very well executed minutes of premium VR entertainment. It looked and ran quite well, however there was not a whole lot of those characteristic Star Wars sounds going on, and it was a bit quiet up there in space, even when the folks from the Imperial army were doing their thing with the ships that are shaped like cheese wedges. Fine with me! I don’t care! I don’t even like Star Wars! I like Star Trek! There, I said it. Big whoop! Wanna fight about it?!
! These two science fiction universes are incompatible and muutally exclusive, you cannot enjoy them both. Pick one. Borg is the best race in the galaxy. https://youtu.be/yPAS4AiGKnw
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
War Robots
EDIT
The developer, Pixonic, has completely gone off the rails in their cash-grabbing scheme. This game is not a PTW game, it is a Pay2Play game at this point. The Steam/Facebook Gameroom clients are practically abandoned, as they are not being considered for the possible merging of the Android and iOS servers. Player count continues to plummet, and it is harder and harder for anyone to compete against the wallet warriors/hackers.
With the update introducing pilots, Pixonic has lost ALL integrity and proves to only care about those who are paying money. This game is now near impossible to play for free players once they reach Diamond League. You need to pay for gold, you need to pay for silver, and this game keeps getting kicked in its coffin by Pixonic. They lost all grip on reality, and are quite clearly riding this cash cow into the dirt.
– Real player with 1332.9 hrs in game
Disgusting the amount of money and advertising of “sales” thrown in your face!
Its a good game but the pay to win is ridiculous. $99.99 “sale” for a gun and bot components??? not even A gun or A bot, no no no, components to build one when you get 10,000. I wish this wasnt sucha greed based game because it would be amazing. Its still one of my go to games but I refuse to spend $100 to buy parts so I lose a lot but I guess it helps with strategy? If I find a similar game that isnt so money grubbing Im bailing on war robots, until then, it passes the time until you get frustrated with a super meched out $1000 bot kills your 4 bots.
– Real player with 697.6 hrs in game
War Robots VR: The Skirmish
Short but great : Don’t be fooled by the short play time of the reviewers, because this demo is only ~0.1h long.
Truth is I don’t even game on mobile phone/tablets, but I will be showing this “VR ad” to my friends, who don’t own a VR headset but do game on their phone/tablets.
Update : Turns out they DID launch a Kickstarter to release a full VR version, but unfortunately that Kickstarter wasn’t tied to an update of this (very short) demo or anything, so I barely managed to notice the Kickstarter in time (it’s almost over), and I’m guessing most other Steam users totally missed it. I hope they Kickstart it again but tie it to a noticeable update of their Steam VR demo this time.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
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– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Batla
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– Real player with 1000.1 hrs in game
before you read the review,be sure that i “might” have cursed a “little bit” in this review
Batla
This is Batla,a game,which at first looks completly stupid and then when you get into the main menu,turns out to be that stupid.
Now,what kind of game is this?
When you get into a game,it a game,where you start with a weapon and you can find different weapon,nothing wrong with that
BUT some of the weapons are really unbalanced,for example the shotgun,the sniper and the weapon that shoots these projectiles that have the color of you or your team when you are playing tdm
– Real player with 31.6 hrs in game
Remnants
its super fun kinda buggy and i cant find the last orb for the achievment but it is a good play definetly fun to get the acheivments. 8/10 overall for what it is lots to do about 5 hours of messing around if u really want to ive spent about 10 hours just looking for orbs and playin around
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
For players: It’s worth the download. It’s free, it’s quick, it’s just dumb fun to shoot an array of different projectiles types at mindless drones. And what seals the deal is the level design, barring the Final Boss. The levels are all cilindrical arenas spiralling towards the top. I just wish the game was tougher and longer.
For Devs: I DO wish the game was longer and tougher. In fact, the selling point of the game is the elemental arsenal and the level design. It’s almost wasted by one thing: the enemies. Why make a game with all these fun gadgets and ledges only to fight against faceless drones? I’d even settle for Floating Skulls or Hands. At least, it’s on theme. It’s pretty jarring for an ancient temple to be filled with drones that don’t even have animations and barely even hurt you. It’s like “Yay! I have a lightning gun! I can’t wait to see the look on the bad guys' faces when- oh wait!” Plus, the lobby has all these platforming puzzles nonexistent in the other arenas. It’s a wasted opportunity. Also, get more music and fix the inventory system, I’m sick of losing my gear and listening to the same loop.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
RoboArena
I need to know why I jumped into a game, our team won the CTF game and it shot me into another right away. We won that game and then I jumped to main menu, only to see that I had gained no exp at all. I thought it might be just a little glitch so I played FFA and got 55 K and 7D again no exp. Look the game was entertaining but if this simple mechanic won’t work then I’m not going to put any more time into this game.
Quick question. Besides exp, do I earn anything else? I never got any microchips or parts after winning. So someone explain to me what is going on cause I just don’t know.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
I buy weapon module. What i got was 2x armor pieces?
LOL
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
MechWarrior Online™ Solaris 7
It’s a shame when adults must be treated like children but I think we all saw this coming.
The fact that I’m writing this hear does not mean you will read it but I am not alone. Many are growing sick of anti consumerism’s and there is a price you will pay for it. A price you will pay for your actions. This won’t hurt me near as much as it’s going to hurt you.
No more money.
831 Hours, 60 FPS, 110ms ping in game. 24ms by my ISP
Trashy hit scanning (Damaging front of mech from behind and Vis Versa) not even close. Biggest issue and still current. Side look out your cockpit and watch things miss you and still do damage.
– Real player with 1059.2 hrs in game
Quick rundown;
If you like stompy mech vs mech combat, get this game. If you like customising things to fit your own playstyle, get this game.
If you like fast battles where you can just jump in and play, don’t get this game. If you are a die-hard fan of the Battletech Universe and think the best Mechwarrior title is MW:2 or MW:4 Mercs, then you probably don’t want to play this game.
While still being loyal to its predecesors, the gameplay is vastly different. If you wan’t to try something different from other free games out there, then do try this game. You don’t have to have hundreds of hours put into the game to have a decent selection of mechs to play with.
– Real player with 802.6 hrs in game
Rustbucket Rumble
I like Rust Bucket Rumble, its a simple game, simple art, simple controls, but I think it all comes together in a fun way. you team up with three players and fight another team of three. you try to stun the enemys and drag them to your recycler to be built into a giant robot, that then proceeds to march across the map eating enemys and smashing the enemy base. There are 6 characters currently, it seems that 2 go on rotation at a time for free players. I Have yet to find any real issues with the game besides connection stability, that at least needs some work, lag and disconnects are rampant/ IT doesn’t help that leavers get no punishment, but beyond that I think the game is enjoyable and would recommend it to any free to play player.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
Pros:
-This game is fun as hell.
-The art style is fitting and in my opinion enjoyable.
-The classes despite some TF2 inspiration are mostly unique in their own right and have very strategic uses.
-There is a unique death system where enemies have to drag your carcass back to their base and throw you into a scrapping machine before you can respawn (and run off) in order to gain points. This makes the mechanics surrounding death and gaining points more interesting than just about any other shooter. (As well as leading to some comical situations.) I wish more games would be inspired by this mechanic.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game