Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

Purchase only if you're okay with knowing you're giving money at least in part to a transphobic facist. Check online for the recipts. The rest of the devs either know and agree, or overlook that fact. Do with that what you will, I'm not your dad.

Brigador is a fantastic vehicular combat game set in a unique, lore-rich cyberpunk dystopia. You pilot mechs, tanks, and anti-gravity platforms throughout a campaign that is short to beat but contains a lot of content if you want to 100% it by beating every single mission (including the extensive post-main story missions) with every loadout. On top of this, there is a freelance mode with hundreds of hours of content that lets you pilot whatever vehicle you want with whatever pilot and loadout through a variety of mini-campaigns featuring a host of new levels outside of the story missions. Brigador has also had a ton of post-launch updates bringing the total pilot-able vehicles to nearly 100, doubling the launch total. It is clearly a labor of love, with the hundreds of acquisition entries fleshing out the very interesting and lifelike world of Solo Nobre. The main story is relatively straightforward, but there is a lot of lore to be found reading about every pilot, vehicle, weapon, and location in Solo Nobre. The cool thing is that each of these entries are written by in-universe characters, three of which show up as pilots in the story mode and freelance, giving insight into how these disparate individuals view the world they live in. It's a must have for any lovers of mech combat, but agravs steal the show to me. These fast, lightly-armored floating platforms are a unique type of vehicle not usually seen alongside the more traditional mechs and tanks. The latter two still play great, though, and you'll learn to love all three types (and maybe even enjoy their tiny counterparts: powersuits, treadbikes, and grav bikes) throughout the game. There are also 40 weapons to chose from, that range from standard cannons and machine guns to more unique options like re-purposed civilian demolition tools and chemical weapons (there's no geneva convention in space). A cool aspect of Brigador is that it is really a game that can be as hard as you want it to be. There are plenty of ultra mechs that are giant fortresses armed to the teeth with powerful weapons. Conversely, there are tiny tuk-tuks with only the lightest arms that can be one-shot by most enemies. In freelance mode, the pilot you pick also governs which of 13 levels of difficulty your enemies will come in at, affecting their number, quality, and how easy it is to salvage ammo from them. Now is a great time to mention that Brigador has stellar enemy variety, with a whopping 127 enemy units spread across 3 very unique factions. Depending on your pilot, difficulty also can escalate at different rates, and with different starting and ending difficulties, letting you tailor the mini freelance campaigns to your heart's contents. Brigador is a game I have kept coming back to over the years, with its unique setting and addictive vehicular combat capturing my attention for weeks every time I decide to return to it after a break. I'm really excited for the announcement of its sequel, which I'm sure will be just as excellent as the original.

I don't like this game. I think the graphics being reminiscent of Tiberian sun is the only thing I really like about it. I don't like the controls, I don't like the difficulty and the story never pulled me in. I think it's overrated. But I'm making the review positive out of being annoyed by people playing thousands of hours in the game, loving it and then not recommending for politics. I don't know what the political issue is here, don't care. Don't review a game + or - because you disagree with politics of the dev ya stupid gits. That doesn't let anyone know about the quality of the game. Thanks, goodbye.

This game is super fun, and I definitely recommend when on sale. The good 1) fun destructible environments 2) tactical game play that's easy to learn and tough to master 3) reasonably creative lore The not so good: 1) The tank-style control seems needlessly clunky. We can do better isometric movement, the technology has existed for a while. The terrible: 1) the last few missions give you a scalpel to do the job of the hammer, and are thus needlessly difficult. More importantly, they are tedious and not fun. They are supposed to be hard, I know. But those missions left such a bad taste in my mouth that I haven't picked up the game since then, and doubt I will again any time soon. That's my only complaint, but it's a big one. On a different note: The game would benefit so much from a rogue-like mode. Overall, definitely worth it when on sale, great game play and a great game that is only soured by the last 2-3 missions.

The main person behind this has shown themselves to be transphobic and generally two-faced, looking to one community for sympathy for how hard it is to be an indie developer and immediately turning around and ♥♥♥♥ talking said community somewhere else.

I believe so hard in this game and the sequel. I would sink New York into the ocean if it meant this IPs success. I would even call my friend Mike a predator if it meant success.

Went in expecting twin stick shooter but that's not what Brigador is. In fact, it is an isometric tactical shooter. And it's pretty brilliant one.

[H1]The Game[/h1] The game itself is decent, the style is the best part IMO but gameplay has a few issues which lead to an at times frustrating experience. Most of the difficulty comes from artificially limiting what you're allowed to use in the campaign rather than fair or interesting challenges. Worth a buy on sale perhaps but it can get fairly repetitive with many of the missions just feeling unfair because of the artificial difficulty rather than actually mechanically interesting enemies. [h3]Dev Conduct[/h3] There was some issues with one of the dev's which mostly went undocumented because they were censored from the forums. Which if look you in to the links below, you'll see why. A dev was being transphobic, racist and literally defending false statements about the holocaust among others. This dev admitted this and left the company but has since quietly reappeared back in now that the heat has died down and repercussions avoided. If you read the links, it's pretty horrible what was said. [h3]Evidence here:[/h3] [i]https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pdfmjd/game_dev_gausswerks_when_a_2000s_indie_game_dev/[/i] [h3]and here:[/h3] [i]https://x.com/mithaldu/status/1276491006431674376?lang=en[/i]