Mercenary Battle Company: The Reapers

This game is half baked at best, more like an unbalanced early access title than anything. Controls are explained in a single fleeting popup at the start of each run, there is no tutorial or explanation. Controls are awkward and not remappable. It's easy to accidentally click the stick, turning on auto-aim while you're trying to manually aim, and if you're manually aiming, the dash button is impossible to hit, being mapped to the xbox "B" button. Controls in menus are also incredibly awkward for the controller, always resetting to the topmost item when you back out of a menu, and getting into a run requires a half dozen button presses per menu. The difficulty is cranked to a degree normally expected of a pay to win title on phones, as is the meta progression currency, though the dev has promised no microtransactions ever, which is a definite point in their favor, and they do say they are going to rebalance it, so after some control and resolution fixes and meta rebalance, I'll give this another look. There is the core of an excellent twin stick mecha shooter here, it just needs some more time in the oven. Edit: The dev's response to a number of the issues has been swift. Th…

What I really wanted to check out was this dev's other game, Crimson Tactics, but I couldn't convince myself to spend 12$ it while it was on sale with the reviews as it was. I haven't written many reviews, but I thought I would point this out. Both Crimson Tactics and M.B.C. look like they have this potential, and they just don't finish the race properly. The reviews for Crimson Tactics parallel what I felt playing this game. Its like they built it out, and then skipped quality control and balancing. New mobs come out every couple waves, and they just get more and more "bullet sponge" factor, and that is it. By the time I was fighting a real boss there is a mass of scorpion looking ranged units shooting purple at me nonstop from the center of my screen while I circled. There seems to be only one build that works (lifesteal), I don't see how any other build would survive that. Its really just not fun. I haven't played many games in this genre, but Artifact Seeker does it sooo much better. I've played all of the heroes before they add new ones (which this game won't be doing) and tried a variety of builds and they all take off in to this satisfying ramp to being a walking w…

Game is ok. unlocks take way to long to achieve, should be able to unlock basics after 1 run but takes several runs to unlock basic upgrades which are necessary due to game initial difficulty. Game definitely needs balancing. upgrading you gear does not feel very impactful. When doubling my bullets I should feel like enemies are dying 200% faster but they at best feel like a 30% boost. No real technical flaws necessarily. I feel like the Y button and L3 should be swapped. L3 on controller should not be dash and Y should not be a button it should be more like a L3 or R3 input. but I have a macro controller so I can remap using steam controls.

It is fun when you first jump into it, i would play it more if it had a bit of a storyline and something unique to hook me at the start. Being priced at 250 Rupees i would never buy it (I bought it on sale), this has the same pricetag as terraria so let that sink in. The Gameplay was a bit like Vampire Survivors which has the same price tag so i don't know how to judge this game. You should give it a try if it's on sale :)

Great game im really enjoying it still need to beat difficulty 10 but thats it I have everything unlocked

Looks great at first but it's just badly designed, there's practically no way to avoid damage and destruction - the dashes are too short, emp shield you can activate doesn't protect you from damage and fast flying enemies will surround you and take down your health far faster than you can kill them. Too unbalanced to be fun.