Granvir

Short version: Granvir is A LOT of fun. Recommend! Long version: Granvir honestly feels like it takes a lot of ideas from Japanese style mecha along with the clunkier, more robust, Mechwarrior style. Has a lot of the granularity and buildcrafting of other mech-type games, without wasting too much dev-time on high poly models or insane graphics. Not to say it isn't a good looking game; all the assets fit together, the theme is cohesive aesthetically. The style of the mech parts fit together well, and you can really feel the care they've put into maintaining how well everything works together. I really like how heat isn't done per weapon or augment, but instead is shared by your entire mech. The variety of parts is awesome, I really enjoy that, it makes it worth looting and playing. My last build I had a mech on tank treads equipped with a rocket booster, along with a chassis that allowed hover jumps. I was able to boost around everywhere insanely fast, and jump/hover over obstacles. This made the later levels much more survivable, especially when air strikes and bombings start coming alongside large waves of enemies. I haven't done much with melee up close, but the patch notes seem to indicate they really care about making them viable. Especially considering the amount of movement affecting parts like the ones I mentioned before. They even have horse and spider style mech legs. Walkers, hoverbeds, tank treads, all sorts. I do however enjoy the rocket spear, it's really fun to nail an enemy from far away with. The first person mode could use a little more work, as I feel the simplicity of it isn't scratching the itch. A blocky or voxel cockpit would be nice. Especially if it integrated holographic screens instead of the plain "see through" cockpit the game has now. Maybe a boot up animation if you start the level in first person. A difficulty mode or campaign adjustment that only allows first person would be nice. Modifiers for campaigns would make a HUGE difference, stuff like changing enemy types that spawn, how they call in air support, ammo usage, enemy or player HP/heat values, stuff like that. The two boss fights I've done were fun. Different build types will have different ways of fighting the bosses, with different degrees of success. This is definitely worth the price as of this review ($15.) and I'd pay $20 or $25 retroactively if I knew how good it was going to be. I've definitely gotten my playtime out of it. (I have unrecorded playtime on a friend's PC of around 10-15 hours.)

One of those games where you start the first mission as a trash can and end the run as a series of interlocking hexagons capable of killing god. Pretty fun.

Almost exactly what i want from a mecha-roguelike, part variety is a lot of fun, and maybe the most time ive spent in a mech builder minmaxing my stats

great and niche game

Just the amount that the game crashes, loses inventory, playing with friends mismatches shared equipment; can't say it's a consistent game to WANT to play but it has it's moments.

Good mech customization across the board. You can be a basic rifleman mech, a knight mech with charging lances, spider artillery, or a mobile multi cannon tank plateform. Enemies are not overly complicated but still deadly and the rouge like natures makes it pretty fun to use a variety of builds. With the recent updates to movement, aiming, and reactor cooling have all been move more QOL and less annoying, so it feels really good. One of the better mech games out there now.

pretty coolio

Hell yeah, brother