Robocraft Review

Why's it so hard to come up with a clever name for my post today?
...who knows..

Anywho today I reviewed a game right off of Steam's "Free to Play" list, because you know...I'm a cheapskate.. The name of this game is, as you've probably guessed by now, Robocraft.

It might sound like a cheap ripoff of Minecraft with robots but it actually isn't. Going into the game I totally expected it to be just like Minecraft just because of the name but I have to admit, I was blown away. The were only slight similarities to Minecraft, and even those were most likely coincidence and/or completely necessary.

Robocraft is a game about building robots and then playing games of capture the base with them, while also blowing up other people's robots. The only feature similar to Minecraft is that when you're building your robot, you use blocks, called "cubes" in game to build them. But that seems kind of necessary to the game so I believe it is not ripping off Minecraft.

The game play is superb, with barely any lag on the server end of playing and my computer was actually able to handle running everything really well with only 4GB of RAM.

My only complaint is the tutorial system. Actually, more like the lack of one. Upon entering the game I didn't receive any tutorial messages and was mostly left to figure out how to do everything on my own. I think the game gave me some minor tips here or there but overall the tutorial system could use a serious remake.

I lied. I have another complaint actually. But you'll need some game knowledge for it so here we go. Robots are graded on their quality and placed into tiers. It is a confusing system sometimes but once you realize how it works it becomes easier. But that's not my complaint. My complaint is that to unlock higher quality items for your robot, which in turn would help it rise through the tiers, you use what's called "Tech Points." It seems simple enough. But it isn't. Tech Points have Tiers themselves and to unlock higher Tier items you need to gain higher Tier Tech Points. And you only get Tech Points that are of the Tier that your robot is. I find it confusing and too difficult. You may not and if not then good for you. I'm obviously not as smart as you.

Other than those two things this is a very fun game. I don't really have a scale to put it on, so let me put it this way, if my friend was looking for some way to spend his night and he had nothing to do at all, I would recommend this game to him as of right now. So maybe it's worth your time to go check out.

This has been another Mythical Review, thanks for reading and I'll see you next time!