Martians Vs Robots

Could be a good Lane Defense game trying to get out, but for my tastes, at this stage the game is not giving enough information to make it an satisfying experience. You have no apparent information on what the various towers do and, in the tower selection stage, you are unaware of the various tower prices. For the price, you can't complain too much, but in the early stages you are flying completely blind. Hopefully these issues will be rectified along the track and if there is a good game there I will happily amend the review to positive!

I'm a fan of lane defense games, so I've enjoyed my time with Martians Vs Robots. At the moment, it's a fun, albeit short, game (to be fair, every lane defense game feels short when compared to the original, Plants vs Zombies). The core lane defense gameplay of generating resources in order to create defenses in each lane is solid. There are a few issues that make it less than it could be; some of them may be attributed to its Early Access, pre-final status, some may be a little more concerning for fans of the sub-genre. I present these here, in order of least concerning to most: - at the beginning of the game, you can play with only three units per level...but you can only choose one. The other two are selected for you randomly. This is actually sort of a feature for me, as I enjoy the challenge of having to work with odd combinations of units. But it does make the game highly variable in difficulty right from the start. You can get combinations that are so difficult that it makes the level effectively impossible. - the color palette is very drab, as everything - Martians AND robots - is a uniform grey metal color. Not a big deal to me, but it might bother others. - levels are "g…