Mainframe Defenders

The game is simple. It plays pretty quick. But it is done so well. You can really tell the people who made it like to play video games. Hope to see more from them soon!

Squad tactics roguelike. Simple rules but the really well done AI and balancing result in a challenging but not frustrating enjoyment. The map generation and weapons and attachments looting make the game a lot of replayable.

Mainframe Defenders manages to be challenging and casual at the same time - by the virtue of simplicity. You've got four bots You can choose, those can be upgraded and equipped. You choose missions based on the reward, the mission type and relative difficulty. There's no epic story, no eye candy, no base building, no events between missions: just well balanced turn based tactics. It is a Roguelite. Maps are randomly generated and also differ based on mission type, but the style remains consistent in its simplicity. Destroyed bots can be repaired at a cost IF You finish the mission, else it is Game Over. Afterwards You can still unlock more of the ~190 items and 12x2 bots - which can indeed help beat the game. 5/5 "Very Hard" difficulty (with Upgradable Enemies) is not to be trifled with ;)

The premise is super simple: You select 4 units to make up your squad, and see how many missions you're able to clear before you're sent back to the main menu via squad wipe or completion of the final fight. The music is nice and the retro look, while it's stylish at first, can quickly become a detriment to the readability. Thankfully, the dev included a bunch of options to reduce or disable these effects. Now, the game has unlockables, and while they do spice up the rate at which you kill or die, it's pretty much always the same: Some units have weaknesses to certain attacks, just like you do. The issue is that the enemy variety is super tiny, and what really changes are the equipment combos they can use against you. More than damage and other stats, your main concern while choosing what to use will be heat generation. So, once you understand the meta, the gameplay gets repetitive as you mindlessly continue clearing levels, getting trivially incremental upgrades to your equipment. The complete lack in variety of visuals also hinders the experience... It's close to just being ASCII art to let you "imagine the stuff yourself". That being said, Mainframe Defenders is a nice time-killer that doesn't cheat nor tries to do anything crazy. It's just, a very simple, cost-effective, and fun experience as long as you set your expectations in the right place. You might not spend weeks playing this game, but it sure does generate a strange itch every once in a while that only this game can scratch.

J'ai acheter Mainframe Defenders, uniquement car il y avais une version pour Linux et à un prix dérisoire. Mais les graphismes en grossier pixel ne mon pas donné envie d'y jouer et le jeu est rester abandonné sur l’étager de ma bibliothèque GOG. A l’annonce d'un nouveau jeu de "Synthetic Domain" graphiquement plus travaillé... J'ai trouvé la motivation de tester Mainframe Defenders, juste pour jouer une heure et savoir si la version Linux fonctionné bien, alors oui le jeu fonctionne bien mais il est surtout tellement addictif... Mainframe Defenders est un excellent jeu de stratégie avec une petit histoire qui donne une vrais fin plaines de sentiment de puissance quand vous y arrivé, mais surtout à chaque fin de mission ont veut continué, juste une parti supplémentaire pour débloqué une meilleur arme ou avoir suffisamment pour acheter une amélioration, et ont ne s’arrête jamais ! J'ai vite oublié que je n'apprécié pas du tous le style graphique en pixel et j'ai passé ma semaine de congé dessus ! Alors oui ont vois bien que les traductions ont était réalisé avec des traducteurs automatique, les caractéristiques des armement ont des tournures parfois très confuses, il faut bien souvent acheter et tester pour comprendre l'équipement. Mais je pardonne car je préfère un jeu traduit, je reconnais l’effort qui à était fait surtout pour un jeu vendu une misère qui n'as sans doute pas eu une grande rentabilité. Le jeu coûte une misère et il ne possède que de bonnes critiques, alors acheter le, mais surtout tester le.