Alien Robot Monsters

I really wanted to like this hideously ugly game but despite being an extremely basic mobile game, and despite having a plethora of patches, it is simply not a finished product, and the bit that is finished isn't any good. There are way too many bad design decisions on show here that will scare away just about any player, even a hardened TD vet like this author. First the good: The game is very cheap (and I got it on sale). The graphics are bad but campy 90s bad so in some ways the art is a plus even though the actual art is ugly beyond description. I played C&C1 via DOS4GW and, gasp, I can still actually remember what it was like, so in some ways this ridiculous, native 4:3 TD copypasta is right up my alley. The sound is mostly annoying low budget but occasionally there's some mildly clever/funny bits, so like the art you really want to like it even though there isn't much to like. The soundtrack is passable but hilariously out of place and doesn't match anything about the rest of the game (except that it was a terrible design decision; that much is consistent). The setting is as generic as it gets and the actual gameplay is likewise as derivative as it gets, but had the basic design and gameplay been solid, the game itself would have been fun and recommendable to fans of TDs. But the core design is TERRIBLE. There's no balance at all, no indication what the developer expects players to do, and few clues about what strategies work and don't work. The tower upgrade paths are ludicrously designed, with some upgrades carrying over and some not, with no indication which is which without raw trial and error. There's no excuse for design this bad when the TD genre has largely passed by this particular brand of stupidity decades ago. Worse, of the approx 3-4 possible strategies in the entire game (there's only 2 base tower types) only 1 will typically work on any level, and often then it will only work in a completely linear way that can only be found with mind numbingly tedious trial and error. The interface is also extremely clunky and cumbersome (I never found any hotkeys at all) and obvious holdovers from mobile ("Tap screen to change rally point") are numerous. I've seen this game compared to Kingdom Rush a few times but that's just nonsense. There are a few similarities, sure, but they're all skin deep. Kingdom Rush has a logical system and uses it. Kingdom Rush has some thought put into strategies, upgrades, and the dynamics of player choice. Kingdom Rush has heroes. Kingdom Rush has easter eggs. Kingdom Rush has charming, Warcraft-style art, and in this respect Alien Robot Monsters isn't even Command & Conquer. Hell, it's not even Dark Reign! Above all, Kingdom Rush is inherently fun to play and Alien Robot Monsters is inherently not fun to play. Sorry to the dev, but I cannot be any kinder to this game (and before heavily editing this review I was a LOT harsher!) I love tower defense games but Alien Robot Monsters really, REALLY sucks, and that's despite all the actual hard work of refining the genre's formula already being done by others. This dev could have simply copied all that good stuff as well, but instead they just copied (and badly copied) the irrelevent fluff and bad ideas discarded by others. What an odd strategy.....

Great game! Entertaining with a fairly large tower upgrade tree that allows for a great deal of variability and strategy. Static upgrades can be purchased with badge points from winning a match (1-3 points per), and can selecting the right upgrades can mean the difference between winning and losing the next match. Fortunately, you can reset these points any time for free! The only thing I would like to see added into the game is a statistic on how much damage each tower is outputing. AND it's been added!!! Buy it. Buy it now! 10/10

Used to be a nice game... ...however, I just did a re-install, and starting the game crashes my Macbook Pro (2019, i5, Mojave, steam current version) hard: Fans start running at full speed, black-screen, automated re-start of the laptop, black-screen, automated re-start...and again). Man, can you imagine those sweaty moments when your computer re-starts, and immediately turns black-screen...?! I had to do a complete re-boot of my MAC 3 times just get the machine running again! Can't recommend this game for MAC-users at all (as you can see from the specs above, my computer SHOULD exceed the requirements)!

Meh. There's not a whole lot of strategy involved, because this is one of those TDs where trying to intelligently deploy blockers at choke points with lots of powerful long-range towers aimed in loses every time to "spam all of the cheapest towers into literally all of the tower slots on the map" every time. That leaves graphics, sound, and story. The first two are mediocre at best, and the third is pretty much nonexistent. Adding insult to injury, the game really puts an unnecessary pounding on your CPU, so that you end up with flickery hard-to-see cursors and a CPU fan in hairdryer mode (I run a Xeon e3-1230v5 in this machine).

Not a bad game there are quite interesting things but. There are bugs and it is very poorly balanced. And some things are pointless or give too little for many points. From the bad balance, the fun quickly disappears.

I like it. But sadly no Steam cloud save option (I'm using multiple boxes depending where I am) and no level difficulties or modes for more replayability. :(

Симпатичный Tower-Defense в духе Kingdom Rush, но с меньшим количеством контента. По скидке взять можно. 7/10

Об этой игре лучше всего говорит тот факт, что практически все отзывы написаны ребятами игравшими в неё более 10 часов. Шедеврально. Реиграбельно.

great game!

Get it! worth much more then £5