Stratside
Albert Espín · 2020 · Tower Defense, Casual, Logic, Relaxing, Lemmings
PC
2 user reviews100% · 2
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About Stratside
✦ AI summary
Place defensive gadgets to outwit a gravity-manipulating enemy trying to destroy planets, using clever positioning and real-time path preview to outsmart his intelligent AI. Stratside flips the script on tower defense by making your opponent dangerously smart and unpredictable, forcing you to think several moves ahead in this brain-bending puzzle game.
Intro & Gameplay
Stratside is a Puzzle Defense game where you save planets from an enemy who changes the direction of gravity! Place gadgets to attack the intruder! Each gadget uses a custom attack pattern: combine your resources strategically to defeat the enemy before he reaches his goal! Don't let him press the red button, or a whole planet will be destroyed!
The enemy can run, jump and change the gravity direction with multiple rituals. He reacts to your placements, and uses his virtuous mind to select the safest path! He will surprise you with unexpected alternative routes, and you will need to use logic to catch him: it's ambush time!
You can preview the enemy path in real-time thanks to a hologram of the intruder, and change placements as many times as wanted, without annoying time limits. When you feel ready, invoke the enemy and enjoy the show: if your placements are perfect, the gadgets will stop him! Spoiler: someone's robotic head may end up ejected.
Features
The innovative gameplay of Stratside comes together with tons of engaging content:
- 12+ amusing gadgets, to attack the enemy in brain-twisting ways.
- Obstacles that affect how the enemy can move through the level.
- Movable blocks, to create new surfaces where gadgets and obstacles can be placed.
- Levels with multiple portals and red buttons, that increase the number of possible paths for the enemy in challenging ways.
- 100+ levels: many planets to be saved!
- Level Editor to create your own levels: from tiny to giant, options are almost endless!
- Steam Workshop, to play levels made by the community and share your creations!
- Level Manager, a file browser-like UI created specifically for the game, so that you can organize your levels in level sets.
- Tutorials that you can follow or skip.
- Customizable Music: you can select the playing frequency for every music type to match your tastes, from epic space tracks to relaxing piano music, among many others: there are 80+ music tracks.
- Customizable Art: planets are like colors; you like this one and I like that one... so you can change the frequency of each celestial body if you want! The same applies to galaxies!
- Settings, many settings: controls, video, audio, gameplay, user interface and more.
- Full gamepad support, and the same goes for mouse and keyboard, of course.
- Optimized enemy artificial intelligence that finds optimal paths in milliseconds, even in giant levels!
- Steam Cloud to sync progress across devices if you want.
- Steam Achievements.
- Steam Trading Cards.
Compared to other games
Stratside is a puzzle game where you control a cursor and place objects in a level, while the AI-controlled character moves in a side-scrolling environment. You might have seen that in save-them-all games like Lemmings, Flockers or Mario vs Donkey Kong. In those titles, you help friendly unintelligent characters to build paths and reach a goal, while in Stratside you prevent a much more clever character (the enemy) from reaching his objective.
Stratside is also a defense game, but whilst traditional defense games feature a large number of dummy enemies with predictable paths, Stratside's smarter enemy is much harder to catch, and powerful enough to move colossal planets through space! Unlike many defense games, Stratside does not make you click on gadgets in real-time to make them attack, here they are auto-battlers! In Stratside, the gameplay magic is in the placement phase!
Stratside was created with the motivation of making a game with a unique, innovative gameplay, probably quite different to anything you have played before, that hopefully you will enjoy playing!
If you like the game, consider buying it or adding it to your wishlist, and share this page with your friends!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
first things first: yes, [b]stratside[/b] is a particularly ugly game, and that's coming from someone who doesn't care about graphics, even less so in puzzle games. it's also clunkier and less polished than it should be, especially at this price, almost matches the quality of the graphics. unfortunately, it's unlikely that anything will change, but the concept and the game itself is still fun for the most part. it's [b]tower defense without the fast pace and frantic clicking[/b], ideal for me. the goal is to place various gadgets around the level that will hurt and eventually stop a single enemy from reaching the button and destroying the planet in the background. yes, [b]only one enemy, but it's pretty smart[/b], always knows what to do and where to go, it can even switch gravity, walk on the side of blocks, jump around, etc. however, instead of quickly placing turrets and whatnot on the go, you can [b]preview enemy movement via a hologram[/b] (or tiles on the level lighting up), [b]adjust gadgets accordingly[/b] to outsmart the ai in advance, then [b]press the invoke button when everything's in place[/b]. it turns green when you're ready to cause as much damage as the enemy's h…18 found this helpful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPlyBCzqPMI The puzzle and gameplay aspect of the game is pretty good though the visuals is rather lacking, which may be part of the game's aesthetic. The gameplay is what matters most though, which is a nice defense game where you need to place certain defensive mechanism in order to prevent an enemy from reaching the end of the level. There are a lot of levels which ramps up nicely and gets you to think. There are also various tools you use like mines and cannons. Other aspects also show up such as change in gravity from time to time which changes the direction the enemy moves, so that would be needed to be factored in when strategising and placing your defense. Overall, it is a good puzzle game, though with nicer visuals, would be great.9 found this helpful
Very fun puzzle game. It starts easy but then gets quite complicated. Here is some gamepaly for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0tE87r1maQ4 found this helpful
Tactical strategy that hooks you from the first minute! Stylish graphics, deep gameplay, and so many battles you'll forget to sleep. Challenging at times, but that's part of the thrill! 8/10, perfect for tactic lovers with a side of adrenaline.2 found this helpful
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