Roboden
Roboden is a fresh take on the RTS genre: less micro-control tedium with more units!
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July 28, 2023
3 years and 5 days ago
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Very Positive75 reviews85.3%
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Roboden is a fresh take on the RTS genre: less micro-control tedium with more units!
I designed this game specifically because of my own lack of competence in high micro-control demanding games.
In this game, you control the entire colonies instead of individual units. Your control is mostly indirect: you modify the colony's priorities so it behaves according to your plans. You don't order a unit production, you make the colony more likely to produce the unit you want. Collect resources, build and combine new drones, and play with friends in cooperative and competitive modes.
This game is a rogue-lite asymmetrical strategy game. It's more about finding your favorite combos and sets of options that allow you to perform even better or have more fun. From a chill player perspective, it can be a relaxing game with meditative gameplay, but it can also be a highly competitive game if you try to beat the global high scores!
Key features:
(*) The local multiplayer requires at least 1 controller.
I designed this game specifically because of my own lack of competence in high micro-control demanding games.
In this game, you control the entire colonies instead of individual units. Your control is mostly indirect: you modify the colony's priorities so it behaves according to your plans. You don't order a unit production, you make the colony more likely to produce the unit you want. Collect resources, build and combine new drones, and play with friends in cooperative and competitive modes.
This game is a rogue-lite asymmetrical strategy game. It's more about finding your favorite combos and sets of options that allow you to perform even better or have more fun. From a chill player perspective, it can be a relaxing game with meditative gameplay, but it can also be a highly competitive game if you try to beat the global high scores!
Key features:
- Split-screen local PvP and co-op multiplayer*
- Asymmetrical RTS gameplay
- Unique base and units control system
- Neat pixel art graphics
- Units combining system for higher tier units
- About 30 different drones divided into 3 tiers
- 5 game modes: blitz, classic, arena, infinite arena, and reverse
- 4 biomes: moon, inferno, snowy tundra, and wisp forest
- Online leaderboard
- Procedural level generation with extensive customization
(*) The local multiplayer requires at least 1 controller.
