No. of Reviews: 20
Review 1
Purchased!
A tower defence + rts mash up in which you control a robot and defend the planet
you're exploring from vicious robots.
PROS
- DNA fusion system whereby you could fuse two lifeforms one being a human and
other an alien. Doing this allows the player to choose genial traits for the
clone such as faster mining, improved tower fire rates, damage and so on.
- Music is really nice although it does only have a few tracks.
- Mixes gameplay up by having 'shooter' sections\elements. It's nice that it has
this but I don't really see the need for it.
CONS
- There is no in game options menu so if you want to change anything you'll be
required to go back to the main menu.
- The control scheme on the planet hub is just terrible. Instead of using the
mouse to move the camera around until you find the desired planet you must use
A\D or Left\Right arrow. This wouldn't be a problem if planets were in static
positions, however they are not and are constantly moving so to find the planet
you want to play becomes a search for a needle in the haystack. Why can't we use
the middle mouse to pan the camera.
- The difficulty is highly inconsistent and often fluctuates. One level you'll
beat no sweat while the next you'll suffer through. What's up with that?
- If you placed a tower down your robot can not pass over it. This is extremely
annoying, this often unintentionally leads to you taking the long ass way around
if possible unless you've locked yourself in which could happen until you decide
to recycle whatever is impeding your path.
- Camera control during gameplay is somewhat slow as it either follows the
player or can be temporarily moved by pushing the mouse in the desired
direction, it does however return to the center on the player. I wish you could
pan the camera around with middle mouse button.
- AI humans feel the need to wander all over the place after you've designated
them to a given position which could result in their deaths.
- I often get the feeling that I have to play this game the way the devs
intended it to be played. If not you're most likely in for defeat.
- The game drops frames when a ton of chips are collected or many explosions
occur.
- Lacking in enemy robot variety.
- Can get repetitive early on.
OVERSIGHTS
- There is no encyclopaedia of towers, defences, robots or aliens. So if you
missed what a certain tower does or robot statistic you may be required to
replay the level that first introduced the mechanic or hover over every
tower\defence\resource in your arsenal.
- Power constraint is a nice restriction however I wish there a button to
disconnect all towers at the same time because if you have towers away from your
ship and enemies are attacking your ship you have to manually disconnect all the
distant towers and this involves walking to them to turn them off. This will
result in an instant defeat.
- I wish you could fuse the DNA of aliens with aliens, I don't see why you're
limited to only humans in this aspect as you con recruit other aliens to your
team.
- It needs a better worker selection implementation. As in being able to select
one worker from a group when all workers are grouped together. Something like a
worker list in which you could click on any worker.
- It does have some typos or missing words.
VERDICT
A game that tries to merge the aspects of RTS and Tower Defence genres and while
it succeeds in some aspects, it does fail in others. The result is a fun but
flawed experience which is marred by odd design decisions, infuriating usability
issues, uneven difficulty and idiotic AI. While it's not terrible it is quite
fun but the flaws really ruin the experience. I do feel that it needed more time
in the oven to correct its issues.
Review 2
Purchased!
It's a good game but has flaws, like to few aliens, enemies, towers, levels, and
upgrades. But it mainly needs more content .I beat the game in 25 hours, a lot
of time, some times leaving the game untended, but half of that time was
replaying old levels to get cash so I could buy upgrades, only one bonus level
is in the game that I could find, and only FOUR aliens.
Over all: Good game for those who want a cute game that lets you build some.
Review 3
Purchased!
A cool small RTS game with an interesting concept of the world, some fresh
mechanics and cool but small campaign.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1478873083
You are a robot. You find human race and now use them as your free workers. They
gather resources, make new humans, amplify tower characteristics and etc. The
whole game is a classical strategy game with 4 different types of resources,
several different buildings and a lot of towers but a few units.
Most of the time, you need to gather resources and building defenses and
rebuilding walls.
Sometimes order new peasants and building extra barracks for them.
There are some offensive maps, where you walking around the map and shoot
enemies using shootings bots.
In overall, the game is worth of trying if you like strategy and defense games.
The price is low. I saw this game often on 50-80% discounts.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1478873135
Pros
- A cool concept of using human race as peasants. A lot of jokes included.
- Nice mix of economic and defense strategy games.
- There are 15 mission in the campaign. Level are diverse. It was interesting to
play.
- You can buy new stuff between missions.
Cons
- A high cost of a mistake. If your robot unit dies (there are a lot of way to
die in a second), you need to start all level again. I tried to pass 1 level
about times. I made a perfect defense, wanted to add new mines and 1 enemy
touched 1 mine and all mines exploded in a second, I was above one mine and I
died.. Really didn't wanted to replay the level again from the beginning
- You can't understand the path of enemies. They can change course and I see no
rules how they choose it. You can make defenses at 1 side, but they go at
another
- There are just a few enemy/tower types.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1478873184
RESUME
A nice RTS game with some cool features, interesting but short campaign. It
costs just 10$ and it can offer you about 7-10 hours of the gameplay. It has
some game design flaws and sometimes you need to restart a level often. Also, I
liked a lot concept of the world. I can recommend this game even for a full
price.
Review 4
Purchased!
Don't let the silly name fool you, this game combines RTS, TD, and RPG elements
very well! Good Job
Review 5
Purchased!
RTS, Tower Defense, Enslaved Humans...What more is there to say.
Review 6
Purchased!
This is a very fun little game with quite a bit of depth, persistent crew but
it's marred with AI bugs that force you to restart a level (the characters cease
to respond to orders).
Imagine a more tower defensy Command and Conquer where you WASD control the
commander.
You WASD control a bot commander who is in a dire predicament for having been
late to work by 0.01 seconds... yes it's quite goofy light hearted humor.
You command locals into mining resources that you then use to build defenses and
other machines to save their lives and complete missions.
Whoever survived can be kept and deployed to the next level and that's important
because each member of your crew level up to become mining expert/tower buff or
can be gene-spliced with local aliens to get laser eyes.
On top of that your commander can gather attack drones that turn it into a
mobile battle station.
It's a lot of fun and when the dev fixes the AI it will be a must buy.
Review 7
Purchased!
Since I can't leave a review on the store page for some unknown reason, I will
post here. When I first decided to write a review I had every intention of
criticizing the devs for releasing the game Early Access instead of just waiting
until they had enough content. This was due to my own prejudice against
companies that have been putting tech demos up on the store and charging full
price. The truth is that Freaking Meatbags already has a good amount of content
and many of the game's features. At $10 it's priced perfectly right now.
About the game itself;
The first thing you will notice is the humor. This is Douglas Adams meets
Paranoia in the most flattering manner possible. The art is loveably cute and
the writing is snappy and clever. It sets a different tone for what is
essentially a RTS/Tower Defense game with a mutation mechanic thrown in for
extra fun. From the start it all just works.
The graphics are fitting for the current trend towards retro-glaucoma bitart.
Everything is well crafted to be easily identifiable and often charming. This is
a talented artist/art director. I have not seen any artifacts or glitches. I
can't wait to see more from them in the near future as more content is added.
Audio: Forgive me I had to play with the sound off since I couldn't stop playing
through the night. From the looks of things I probably missed out on something
great. I hope to update later today after I get some sleep.
Gameplay: As I said, it's basically an RTS- resource collection, build
buildings, create units, set defenses but then it adds a tower defense element
by throwing invasion waves at you. Each planet you land on gives you an
increasing number of waves of attacking enemies. Sometimes a planet will be a
special level instead(no spoilers!). The waves come from different directions
and are made up of increasingly hard enemies and larger numbers. Finally, there
is a DNA splicing element to the game. It's in the latest build but it's not
completely "fleshed out"(sorry) yet since you don't have a ton of options for
splicing but it looks like it will be really great addition once done.
Overall, the game is currently worth supporting. The direction of development
seems consistent and the devs seem friendly. I am eager to try out the rest of
the game as I have had several hours of addiction fueled bliss already. I am
sleep deprived but I had to get a review up ASAP so that these guys will
hopefully get the sales they deserve. There has been a flood of garbage on Steam
recently but this isn't like all of that. Buy this and enjoy!
Review 8
Purchased!
This game has been released from early access for quite a while now but it never
really left. It's still a shambling mess of half finished ideas, barely balanced
levels, and a poor user interface. It doesn't look like it's being updated which
means it's never going to be good. That's a shame, because there are fun ideas
here, but it'd take a good chunk more work to make them worth playing.
Review 9
Purchased!
tower defense meets rts (on a minor level). a fun quirky little game, with some
interesting mechanics, albeit not all too tough, unless you decide to gun for
100% at every level. the simple pixel graphics works well, with serviceable
music and effects. what makes the game more interesting, in my personal opinion
at least, is the story and narrative, which is pretty amusing.
all in all, it's a fairly decent game to pick up, especially if you're into
tower defense games (with a bit of twist). the dna mixing mechanic is a fairly
interesting one too, which does hold a lot of potential. perhaps for a sequel in
the future then.
Review 10
Purchased!
I absolutely love this game! As a person that isn't exactly your prodigal
tactical genius, I recommend this to anyone remotely interested in the RTS/tower
defense genre. This game is a must buy, with quite a lot of repley value for all
it's difficulty options and upgrades. I wouldn't mind seeing an update or two in
the future!
Review 11
Purchased!
Wow! Finally beat the boss level..very difficult. I thought the level before the
boss was tough..but the boss was much tougher.
Overall a very good game. I'd give it a 82 out of 100 in the state that it is
in. Would love to play some more levels. Also having a difficulty setting would
make it nice(though I beat the game...I'd rather have had a little less
stress!).
Art work and the music are fantastic! The 'meatbags' remind me of the family
from Robotron 2084!
Looking forward to the full game and then Freaking Meatbags 2!
Bravo!
Review 12
Purchased!
A fun and unique tower defence and RTS hybrid.
Among all the crappy mobile phone TD ports on steam this game was a pleasant
suprise. It's a shame this game hasn't recieved more exposure.
I have a few minor criticisms, such as the lack of achievements, a bit short,
and overall could use some more polish such as additional DNA traits. It would
be amazing to see a sequel building on this formula.
If you enjoy this game I HIGHLY(!) recommend playing Infested Planet, which is a
very similar and probably superior TD / RTS experience.
Review 13
Purchased!
Picked this up for 2-3 euro on sale - Honestly one of the best cheap games ive
bought - took ~12 hours to 100% on very hard.
Really nice sound, graphics and unlike a lot of cheap games i've picked up the
UX is spot on.
Strongly recommend for people looking for a tower defence / rts / top down
shooter mashup :)
Review 14
Purchased!
This is a very fun, little game that I would like to see more of. It's fun, and
unique, and I really hope we can get a few more TD/RTS games on the market.
I will say, though, that while the DNA system is quite fun, I'd like to see more
alien types!
Review 15
Purchased!
Really enjoyable little RTS with great writing and good mission variety. It has
a unique hook and is really well polished, especially considering it is an early
release game. Highly recommended, even now.
Review 16
Purchased!
Honestly, I can see where the developers tried and tried hard to make this work.
RTS and tower defense can be very difficult genres to combine. If you are not
very careful and rather clever you end up with a very one sided feeling RTS.
Which is what this turned out to be. There just aren’t quite enough… um…
elements here to make it work. (Sorry devs. As I said, I see where you put in
the effort.)
Sadly, this still misses the mark and I can not recommend it.
Review 17
Purchased!
Adding my own review into this game to help support it. I would recommend buying
this game if you like more than a simple tower defense. This game inputs many
options and a variety of things to do in place of simply placing towers. You
upgrade your 'meatbags', get drones for yourself, set up towers and place people
in them that make the towers super powerful. It's simple, it's fun, it's an RTS
tower defense, not sure what else to say.
Review 18
Purchased!
a bit short, but it is great, you breed humans to mine and boost towers, other
than that, it's a tower defence game.
Review 19
Purchased!
Funy little tower defense game, I actually liked the humor.
Not immensely hard even on hard as long as you get your meatbags proficiencies
setup right
20 Hours / 100% completion
Review 20
Purchased!
Fun indie game.
FTL meets Starcraft meets Tower Defense.