RECOG The First Wave
LozMarblz Inc. · 2018 · Open World Survival Craft, Strategy, Casual, Simulation, Indie
PC
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About RECOG The First Wave
Advanced Cognitive Relay, a.k.a. ‘RECOG’: The consciousness within all artificial life as we know it, has been embedded in an enemy whose sole purpose is to navigate the galaxies in search for those opposed to its logical ways of perseveration, and destroy them.
As deep space mission control auxiliary, you are in charge of the implementation and management process of the RECOG project. With a care package from Earth, you are to build an industrial complex as the first line of defense against the enemy RECOGs. Dig deep in the landscape to uncover precious minerals and oids in order to create your stronghold. Fortify your defenses with an army of starships, equipped with special abilities and weaponry to protect that all-important industrial landscape. Be conscious in your decisions and prioritize the construction wisely. For the more advanced you become, the enemy RECOGs will revise and react accordingly.
This not your ordinary real-time strategy game.
It is about understanding the mind of an enemy who learns and adapts to your playing style in order to crush you.
EXPLORE, MINE AND COLLECT
Explore valuable terrain, revealing uncertain dangers while mining 14 of the most precious rocks and minerals deep within the chasms. Gather all that you can and store them ready for construction.
BUILD EPIC INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES
Over 500 industrial recipes are used to create the immense quantity of pieces for building your epic industrial complex. Build high above the terrain, alongside rock walls or down to the core for unlimited lava resources. Design your industrial wonders beyond imagination, while avoiding catastrophic disasters. Create fortified structures to withstand the onslaught while you pummel the enemy using weapons of mass destruction.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/automate.png
POWER UP YOUR INDUSTRY
Give life to your industry using the most advanced renewable resource ever known; the Global Alternative to Highly Efficient Resources (a.k.a. GATHER). Manage the power grid using connected generators, linkers and splitters, flowing through your industry for true automated performance.
MILITARY
Your military might include: 1 extremely versatile Utility drone for all your industrial building needs, along with 6 highly advanced war drones ready at your command. The Utility drones are your key industrial counterpart, enhance them for maximum strength and efficiency. Build your war drones and prepare to defend your honor from the might of the enemy. Load these machines with a multitude of enhanced lasers, more than 40 exclusive missile types, over 130 combat module enhancements, and 24 signature skills designed to amplify each one’s power 10-fold, enabling them to annihilate what is to come.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/battle2.png
REPROCESSING & RECYCLING
A game wouldn’t be the same if you could not benefit from the wreckage of your enemy. Over 130 fragments to be collected from enemies downed in battle, giving you a potential 780 possible items to be discovered from processing these fragment parts.
LAVA
Take control of the deadliest natural wonder on the map and embrace your inner engineer with advanced liquid systems. Create paths of destruction as a defense mechanism against the enemy. Use lava as a barricade to ward off unwanted guests or completely submerge yourself under it as protection from their attacks. Do not take this liquid lightly, as it plays no favorites for whom it kills.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/ohoh.png
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
5 specially formulated weapons of mass destruction are at your disposal. They range from smaller AOE blasts, taking out those within a near radius, to electronic warfare and viruses, as well as an all-out nuclear missile wiping almost everything in its zone.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/nuked.png
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
With over 270 unlockable technological advancements, this extensive library of innovations and creations will bring your A-game to a whole new level. As you unlock these advancements, you are unlocking the potential to reign supreme.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Strategic analysis will give you the tools necessary to understand how you have progressed in the game and where changes need to occur. Analyse vulnerabilities, assess cyclic changes, and alter the outcome.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/analyse.png
ACHIEVEMENTS
Show off your skills and expertise with all things RECOG, by challenging yourself to accomplish all 60 achievements and sharing them with your peers.
As deep space mission control auxiliary, you are in charge of the implementation and management process of the RECOG project. With a care package from Earth, you are to build an industrial complex as the first line of defense against the enemy RECOGs. Dig deep in the landscape to uncover precious minerals and oids in order to create your stronghold. Fortify your defenses with an army of starships, equipped with special abilities and weaponry to protect that all-important industrial landscape. Be conscious in your decisions and prioritize the construction wisely. For the more advanced you become, the enemy RECOGs will revise and react accordingly.
This not your ordinary real-time strategy game.
It is about understanding the mind of an enemy who learns and adapts to your playing style in order to crush you.
EXPLORE, MINE AND COLLECT
Explore valuable terrain, revealing uncertain dangers while mining 14 of the most precious rocks and minerals deep within the chasms. Gather all that you can and store them ready for construction.
BUILD EPIC INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES
Over 500 industrial recipes are used to create the immense quantity of pieces for building your epic industrial complex. Build high above the terrain, alongside rock walls or down to the core for unlimited lava resources. Design your industrial wonders beyond imagination, while avoiding catastrophic disasters. Create fortified structures to withstand the onslaught while you pummel the enemy using weapons of mass destruction.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/automate.png
POWER UP YOUR INDUSTRY
Give life to your industry using the most advanced renewable resource ever known; the Global Alternative to Highly Efficient Resources (a.k.a. GATHER). Manage the power grid using connected generators, linkers and splitters, flowing through your industry for true automated performance.
MILITARY
Your military might include: 1 extremely versatile Utility drone for all your industrial building needs, along with 6 highly advanced war drones ready at your command. The Utility drones are your key industrial counterpart, enhance them for maximum strength and efficiency. Build your war drones and prepare to defend your honor from the might of the enemy. Load these machines with a multitude of enhanced lasers, more than 40 exclusive missile types, over 130 combat module enhancements, and 24 signature skills designed to amplify each one’s power 10-fold, enabling them to annihilate what is to come.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/battle2.png
REPROCESSING & RECYCLING
A game wouldn’t be the same if you could not benefit from the wreckage of your enemy. Over 130 fragments to be collected from enemies downed in battle, giving you a potential 780 possible items to be discovered from processing these fragment parts.
LAVA
Take control of the deadliest natural wonder on the map and embrace your inner engineer with advanced liquid systems. Create paths of destruction as a defense mechanism against the enemy. Use lava as a barricade to ward off unwanted guests or completely submerge yourself under it as protection from their attacks. Do not take this liquid lightly, as it plays no favorites for whom it kills.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/ohoh.png
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
5 specially formulated weapons of mass destruction are at your disposal. They range from smaller AOE blasts, taking out those within a near radius, to electronic warfare and viruses, as well as an all-out nuclear missile wiping almost everything in its zone.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/nuked.png
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
With over 270 unlockable technological advancements, this extensive library of innovations and creations will bring your A-game to a whole new level. As you unlock these advancements, you are unlocking the potential to reign supreme.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Strategic analysis will give you the tools necessary to understand how you have progressed in the game and where changes need to occur. Analyse vulnerabilities, assess cyclic changes, and alter the outcome.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/843040/extras/analyse.png
ACHIEVEMENTS
Show off your skills and expertise with all things RECOG, by challenging yourself to accomplish all 60 achievements and sharing them with your peers.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise the game's complex, deep gameplay with excellent physics and procedurally generated levels that reward strategic thinking, but nearly all reviewers emphasize that the game suffers from a severely inadequate onboarding experience—tutorials are poorly paced YouTube videos scattered across the internet rather than integrated into the game, and the UI is unintuitive and confusing. Additional concerns include limited camera angles, lack of post-launch support and updates, and difficulty differentiating visual elements, leading most to recommend only for patient players willing to inv
This actually takes the cake for worst not-even-game I've ever briefly tried to play. I played Dwarf Fortress for years. I'm not of the faint of heart. This interface is *terrible*. The videos that are excused as a tutorial -- that you can only find linked defensively in a release notes update of "oh yes there are turotials you must be mistaken!!111!" -- are almost unbearable: they are both paced horribly, full of fluff, in absolutely no order that makes sense for what you need to do as a beginner... there's more time spent badly voice acting about the incoming threat than there is *teaching the damn game*. The 3d view can only be used at 8 angles. Why? They're all on the same inclination, by the way, and it's the absolute worst one for viewing 3dimensional objects. Hope you enjoy that, I guess? The UI doesn't even *try* to raycast to put your machines in the correct place when you hover over the side of another object. The select boxes for bulk operations like "pick up these 1000s of useless drops" can't even be started except on squares that contain one of the drops; so if you want to select an area, but can't find a dropped item *in the corner* of the area you want to …63 found this helpful
[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7871885/]Follow our curator page:[b] OCG-Curations[/b] if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/url][/quote] [u]Rating[/u] [b]7/10[/b] [u]Pros:[/u] Fun, Complex Gameplay Excellent Physics Procedurally generated levels force players to use a variety strategies to succeed. [u]Cons:[/u] No Tutorial Special Materials are a bit difficult graphically to differentiate from the rest of the terrain Awkward Control Unintuitive UI [h1]Overview[/h1] “RECOG First Wave is a complex factory management title. The player won’t be left to create their industry peacefully however, as the reason they are building it in the first place is to defend against waves of robotic enemies named the RECOG. The player must build increasingly powerful attack drones and towers to defend against the enemies. The graphics are comprised of two complimentary artstyles which best highlights the important blocks that the player wants to focus on. There is a distinct lack of sound in the game, which works well with the fact that concentration and strategizing is necessary to best play this title. The story is a bit lacking, but it isn’t the foc…28 found this helpful
I liked what I was seeing online, and I feel the game has great potential. Decided I'd wait till some updates came out before putting in the time to get my hands dirty. One year in, and no updates. Very disappointed. *someone* will love this game, but I have to admit it is not here. Time for a price drop, if you're not going to support it!7 found this helpful
in its current stage i cannot reccomend this game im genuanly excited about the game concept but the only form of tutorial is the "RECOG The First Wave : Informal" youtube series its essensialy a youtube lets play with a developer. the game seems to focus more on lore and emersion rather useful help tools5 found this helpful
Well, I took the time and actually watched the first 20 lessons and practiced the basic foundations of setting my industry and assemble basic military drones and research and development. Now its getting a little more advanced. i'm realizing now theirs so much more I can do. I've only scratched the surface. I will leave a more detailed review once i have a full understanding of the game. I definitely recommend it. You Need to Watch Tutorials In Order To Understand How To Play.4 found this helpful
Recog is a rather fun game though, not without it's flaws. I like the strategy/industry focus in the game it makes for a good goal, staying alive. The game as mentioned by the developers is hard and it is but, it is just hard not infuriating if you lose you can go back to an earlier save and try again not all is lost and you have all the time in the work to retry. The game has interesting content but, as far as a tutorial the videos online and the wiki don't answer all the questions a new player might have. I think that the game is still new and needs to develop more but, has alot of potential. Do not buy the game later if you are planning on doing so buy it now to help develop the game but, only if you a certain you will get it later. I would rate this game 8/10.4 found this helpful
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