Machinefall

First of all: I leave a positive review, because I see the vision and because I hope the developer can benefit from it. I value indie projects and am aware that expectations on these shouldn't be too high. Nontheless this review will pinpoint a few things I liked and some which I didn't like. ++ Positives ++ - The concept of 'settle across the entire globe' is an awesome premise. It's why I picked up the game in the first place. - setting is as well interesting enough to have potential; the idea of building up settlements across the globe in an apocalyptic bug-invasion-type scenario is a good premise and gives me actual reason to explore more of the map rather than just building up my own starting zone into a fortress - unit formations work quite well - it's something a lot of strategy games nowadays don't do anymore and I appreciate the effort for allowing more tactical depth ++ The Negatives ++ - as 'grand' as the bug invasions might look like in the trailers, the actual gameplay feels rather bland. You build units that fight pretty much entire blobs on their own and while at first the bugs might look scary, one recruit on low level is surprisingly tanky enough to even take on multiple of them in melee combat! Sure, I get it, there should be encouragement for training units, getting them up to veteran level and there are some more advanced bugs within the game, but I feel like even the massive bug invasion in the tutorial mission was technically doable once the big Stomper bug was targeted down - just took the route of escape, because I wasn't sure if there would have been an alternate ending to the mission. Either way though, right now the alien swarms feel more like silly obstacles that do occassionally some damage with some enemies inbetween. Furthermore not sure if I like the designs. They look rather bland currently. The Stomper's design though is awesome. - there's way too much management gameplay currently within the game. It's on the one side a positive, because depth in gameplay is important and management is key. However, even if the tutorial mission alone wasn't helpful in terms of showing me how city building works within this game, I sorta figured it out on my own in the free game mode and am still not convinced. I build most of the stuff I build because it seemed logical. City hall, some roads, some rebuild houses, a lumberyard, so far, so good. But it's way too much stuff to figure out, while the player is supposed to fight off at the same time an alien invasion in my opinion. And given that there's a whole world to re-colonize I feel like it's far too much detailed in terms of rescource management and logistics. Maybe simplifying the whole thing would be better. Make the Townhall mandatory for reclaiming settlements, give them options as what type of settlement they are supposed to work (lumber production, stone production, waste production, farming city etc.) and leave only military buildings from the production chain for the player to build. That way, I feel, the game concept would still work and wouldn't overwhelm new players with figuring out what rescources they need, while their main focus should be expansion, building defenses and establishing logistic chains between singular settlements. - This might feel like a contradiction to the first thing I mentioned why I loved the concept of this game in the first place, but given that you can actually settle on an entire globe, freeing it from alien bugs, there should be more to locations than just rescource points of interest. Maybe there could be missions where you obtain survivors or where other entities like rival factions or raiders could spawn within the vicinity of your territory. There could be nests of bugs, that spread over time, potentially even make certain areas of interest infested until the main hive of the nest gets destroyed. Sure, you don't want to clutter the entire globe with nonsense once a game is in session, but players should feel a reward when they actually decide to expand. Because initially I thought as well, that just like in the tutorial mission, I only need to focus onto one place, only to realize later on, that it would be more advantageous to claim myself more territory Therefore, yeah, as already hinted in the introduction, there's a lot of work to be done to polish the game, but these would be my recommendations at least. Others might disagree and I don't want to discourage anyone who plans on buying the game, but at the moment while I won't refund the game, it feels for my own taste too clunky. But I'm hopeful that this might change eventually over time. ^-^

Un jeu très prometteur ! J'apprécie tout particulièrement tous les automatismes présents dans les mécaniques du jeu (en attaque/défense, réarmement, soins, réapprovisionnement etc).

i love the concept of having the whole world to explore. yeah, there are bugs, and after a while the city building aspect gets tedious and dull, but its definitely a great entry into the rts genre.

Please note the following: This is just one dude making a game and USING AI to make some or many of the game sprites. If you can't handle this, well don't buy it, go for the DEMO. 24.1 HRS of camPAIN, yes it stutters when you have a sht ton of units all over the world and it gets progressively harder/easier for you, but honestly I think for the price you get much more game than you though you'd get. For a game made by one dude, the playability and replayability is good and would say 7/10, I hope you can later begin upgrading the assets to a better quality, and add more stuff in between so much empty land. Neutral Settelments or other NPC players, not just the insects.

It’s still missing a few small quality of life features. Such as queuing waypoints of units. Besides that its great. You get what is promised. And it works fantastically. The late game feels a bit lackluster since it becomes very finicky to manage while a lot of locations are just not worth pursuing. But I will still give this game a very big thumps up. It comes very cheap, there was a lot of love put into this and it a very new game. Something truly new, not copy pasta for the thousands time.

Игра просто ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, но я хз, как тут вообще возможно победить, ибо даже на лёгкой сложности лютый хардкор. Видимо я всё таки казуал, несмотря на 700 часов в хойке :D