H.I.V.E.

"H.I.V.E." is a weird minimalist auto-battler with no content that looks and feels like a student project? But student projects tend to have a superficial level of polish and basic bug fixing, which this really doesn't. The fact of the matter is if you ever see "autochess" in a game description, it's rubbish. What do you do in the game? As an "autobattler", it's about setting up your "team" and kicking off the fight to see what happens, so there's a progression system of sorts, but it's a real mess, and the bugs don't help. The graphics look particularly bad, but at least it's not pixelcrap. Nonetheless, developers should try to understand that gaming is a visual medium. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It …

good concept bad execution

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I wanted to bash this game for deceiving me, but now that I returned to the shop page I have to admit that I must've overlooked the "Auto Battler" tag. I thought it was left out to lure in decent people... Well, can't blame a pile of poop for stinking, can I? The "game" is bu[b][/b]llshit nonetheless.

[h1]Before I played H.I.V.E., I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

buggy