Roguebot

"Roguebot" is something that comes across as more of a tech demo or a student project than a fully fledged game. It's a repettive procgen hell game with no content (and not to be confused with Roguebot, the C64 retro game by Doctor Wombat). What do you do in the game? The game takes place in a dystopian steampunk future, where you control a small robot battling enemies in three different biomes. You collect equipment modifications and abilities while plodding through endlessly samey, repetitive procgen levels. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. 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 …

good

I rather like this game. The customization is tons of fun and I find the difficulty to be perfect. And its free! Who could ask for anything better?

+Free +Doesn't look all terrible -...but sounds terrible; especially the ROCKET-ammo - WONG-WONG-WONG-WONG -Repetitive; boring -> player choice cycle is way too far between =Neutral review, but since I wouldn't recommend such game for myself I won't do it to you either.

Roguebot (RB in short) is a straight-forward, repetitive, rogue lite shooter that allows you to build your combat robot with certain choices of arsenal and skills. It can be brutal as every death, you have to replay from the start again. Be warned, there are issues with hit boxes, wall-collision-physics-that-makes your robot get stuck/abruptly walk slowly, sudden difficulty spike after level 20, unfair enemy spawn around you. RB is still rough and has a lot of room to polish/improvement. Boss fights are interesting. Story doesn't make any sense at all. Combat wise? Fun and interesting for the early stages as you try out the different combinations of arsenal and fight bosses until you realize there is [u]a very limited arsenal build that is [b]efficient[/b] - to get you to level 30. [/u] None the less, for a casual shooter, this is decent product.

Not really a lot going on here, the upgrades are limited and you often get offers you can't afford anyway, which seems pointless. The combat isn't terrible but only having one life makes replaying a chore. It's worth a play but I wouldn't say it's good. The levels look cut and pasted with very little care, graphics are reasonably good and it does control well. So yeah have a go, you might like it.