Freaking Meatbags
Wild Factor · 2015 · Strategy, Tower Defense, Indie, Action, Pixel Graphics
PC
Very Positive86% · 17369Metacritic
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About Freaking Meatbags
Freaking Meatbags throws you into a futuristic world where robots have jobs, cephalopods aren't confined to a single dimension, and humans pretty much just stand around talking to themselves. As a lowly cleaning robot, your task is to gather precious materials from each world before the solar system goes kaboom. As soon as you land, you realize this gig isn't going to be as simple as you had hoped. During the day you'll scramble to gather resources, build structures and keep your base in good repair. But when it gets dark, get ready to fight. Those rampaging wild robots aren't here to have a knitting competition.
At least you're not alone in your daily chores. Fleshy, unintelligent and very unattractive human creatures live on these planets. You've discovered they're quite amenable to being told what to do, even if those tasks are as limited as carrying resources back and forth. Mix some DNA from a few different species, however, and you can breed humans with special powers. Like, say... laser beam eyes! A little mod here, a little hack there and they might turn out to be quite useful!
Features
- Fuse alien and human DNA: Create hybrids with special alien abilities by mixing DNA from two different meatbags. A human is useful, but a human with a laser eyes, and a new pair of arms is even more useful.
- Build offensive and defensive structures: Hold back the wild robot hordes while simultaneously pummeling them with lasers, missiles, bolts of electricity and your very own personal attack drones. 15 unique structures to create and upgrade.
- Enhance your base with technology: Influence the battlefield and manage your base with nine different pieces of buildable technology. Need to heal yourself? There's tech for that. Want to build drones? Tech for that, too!
- Motivate your meatbags: The humans usually do what you ask. Unless they're tired or bored or just plain apathetic. Fortunately there's plenty of alien biotechnology you can implant to give them a little encouragement.
- Robotic enemies: Nobody knows where the wild robots come from, but they sure are well-armed. Eight unique enemy types that range from creepy crawly things to dashy explodey things.
- Boss robots: Three sinister bad guys to take out with your turrets. One of them has a giant brain. How do you figure it got in there?
- Multiple planets and environments to explore
- Four alien species to encounter, chat with and steal DNA from
- One giant trans-dimensional space squid
Philae Update
(February 2015)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
strategy game in which you manage an alien colony, controlling their daily lives and experimenting with Earth humans ✅DNA fusion system allows you to fuse a human with an alien lifeform and select the clone's favorable traits (faster mining, higher turret fire rate, increased damage, etc.). ✅Interesting mix of Tower Defense and RTS genres (base building, resource management, wave defense) ✅Each planet offers new challenges, with waves of enemies increasing in difficulty and numbers, and special levels adding variety. ✅Very good humor and dialogue (emails, NPC interactions, absurd situations). ✅good soundtrack. ✅The price is adequate for the game's content. ❌The pixel art isn't appealing at all, but I appreciated other things that I liked ❌No options menu during gameplay changing settings requires returning to the main menu ❌Little enemy variety ❌Weak employee management system Decent [/strike], [b] Good [/b], [strike] Very Good [/strike] (Rating scale for short games, retro indie simulator games, and similar) [quote] If you'd like to see more of my reviews, you can find them on my curator page: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45994324/admin/reviews_manage/]CuratorK…16 found this helpful
Hello Friends, Today I will review the game Freaking Meatbags. This is a indie tower defense game with varying degrees of difficulty. Basically, the players main character is a robot who is tasked with gathering materials from worlds before their sun blows up. Along the way, they find humans, which it refers to as freaking meatbags to work for it, and the player uses them as their work force to gather resources. While gathering resources, enemies attack the player and the humans being used by the player. They must use defense barriers and gun towers to defend their base and humans. There is a store you can purchase upgrades at, but each item gets more and more expensive. There are also items you can equip on humans. Unfortunately, the way to get gold is very hard. You must beat a level normally, then beat it on hard mode, then on very hard mode. Even on normal, some of those levels are very challenging. I had to quit at level 14 because i cannot get past it. I played 3 hours trying to beat it, and had no luck. PROS: - A tower defense indie game. - This game is keyboard and mouse only. I did try to use my controller, but it did not really work with this game. - The difficult…8 found this helpful
Freaking Meatbags is a charming and original game. It isn't trying to be some other game that was very popular. It isn't trying to be an open world-survival-rpg-colony sim-city builder blah blah blah a little bit of everything and nothing at the same time. It sticks to its lane, which is a rather silly, chaotic lane. It's fun and easy to learn, and doesn't take itself too seriously. Honestly $10 is worth the price, but getting it on sale is a no brainer. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up. 7/10.1 found this helpful
This game is better than I expected. It feels a little klunky but that adds to the vibe. Be music and sound effects are pretty cool. Simple point and click strategy game.
One of the most engaging, challenging, and silly games I have played in a while. 10/10
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