With the Indie Box, the entire XboxSquad editorial team offers you mini reviews of very little known or featured indie games. While some don’t deserve to step out of the shadows of the Xbox Marketplace, others might be worth a look. That is the whole subject of this section.
Monsters swoop down and kill everyone without much our armies can do about it. Decades later, we will create modular and destructive robot battles to finally play at eye level. Make no mistake, we’re not there Pacific Rim but in Mech Armada, a high quality tactical roguelike that deserves your attention.
Roguelike because the procedural generation of its levels and its permadeath system will always impose on you, When your mech brigade is destroyed, start over and review your strategies. Tactically, because the complex crate system and the many modifications of the mechs make your brain smoke before the many monstrosities rise in front of you.
No fight is like the other, no campaign is like the otherthen expect to drool immediately, because the pests are not content with being numerous, but all have different sizes, capacities and even morphological inspirations. The result is an excellent turn-based strategy game, original and addictiveonce we have perfectly integrated the various development possibilities of our mechanized brigade and the tactics involved.
I appreciated:
- The modifications of the (very) numerous and additional mechas as required
- The terribly tactical aspect of every confrontation
- Extremely diverse pests
- The graphics are more than honorable for an indie
I am sorry :
- The off-putting user interface and not always very clear, especially when studying
