Automata Empire

Cellular Automata is a fun strategy game about, well, automatons which you will attempt (and miserably fail at first) to control. Unlike in other strategy games you cannot directly control your units, instead you can influence them through buildings such as roads or catapults, meaning winning is as much about "engineering" as about fighting. The ressource system in this game is that each building costs units, killing said units if they are nearby or otherwise failing to be built which adds more difficulties to building a massive wall for instance. You can (and will) indeed kill yourself without all the help from anyone. The principle of the game makes for really fun and interesting gameplay which is quite unique. There are 5 game modes, war (annihilate the enemy), capture the flag, king of the hill, fort (defend a fort and protect it from enemies) and my personal favourite migration (you have a huge horde comming at you from the bottom and all players have to scramble to flee them while killing each other) At the moment it does just have singleplayer which despite various gamemodes may for certain people not be worth it. However if you are a strategy fan you should at the very least follow this game and wait for the multiplayer, which should be great fun.

I enjoy the game and hope more is to come from the developers.

seriously what a ♥♥♥♥ game, how could it have such good reviews ?

A simple premise, but addictive, great fun, fresh looking, old-school feeling game.

Really great game inspired by The Game of Life; highly reccomended. I bought it after looking at the screenshots and knowing it was an RTS, I wasn't really expecting too much from it, but so far I've been plesantly suprised. The game revolves around building feedback loops (combinations of taverns, roads and walls designed to replicate monsters) and destroying / disrupting enemy feedback loops. The mechanic allows for REALLY interesting designs, and I look forward to seeing what people do when multiplayer is added. Ease of play: 7/10 Potential for competitive play: 9/10 Graphics: 8/10 Sound design: 7/10 Price: $9.99 CAD Overall: 8.5

This is a very fun game. It relies on making the best use of a simple set of rules defining the interaction between units. Like some of the best board games, the instructions take only a moment to learn while the depth and complexity of strategy is limited only by your imagination. A comfortable spread of single player difficulty levels makes it easy to hit the ground running while still providing a challenge once you get the hang of things. I can easily say this game is more than fairly priced.

Interesting concept. But I think the game is broken. I have 1,2 and 3 automatas dying, when they are only suppose to die when they are 8+. The instructions aren't much help either.