Calyx

You are the sole occupant of a deep-space mining outpost and my only neighbours are murderous plants. This is basically Dune 2 and C&C for people who peaked in 1996, except the enemy is an angry garden. You build your power grid, you set up harvesters and refineries, you feel smug about your beautiful base layout, and then the Calyx turns up and composts everything you love. Artillery fixes most arguments. Research fixes the rest. For an Early Access game made by a tiny studio it's solid. No crashes, no nonsense, 16 campaign maps plus skirmish and challenge modes, and a tech tree that keeps whispering "one more upgrade" at 1am. My lawn at home is now knee-high because I've been too busy fighting fictional vegetation to mow actual vegetation. 9/10 would neglect real plants to shell fake plants again.

I Absolutely Love this game! If you're a Fan of oldskl C&C or Creeper World... You'll Love this game!!!! I've just purchased the game and played the first 5-6 levels, but to be crystal-clear, I was previously providing feedback within the "Play-tests" that I signed upto, pre-Early Access launch! This is why i've waited a while to see what the launch intaled and now i've dived in. So my feedback here, maybe a tad-squewed, as I was already familiar with most of the game mechanics etc due to being a "Play-Tester"... That being said... This game Continues to be Amazing! I waited awhile after the launch before buying & playing it... It seems the EA release has had an update or two... So I bit the bullet and made my purchase and at the time of this review: I've played through the first 5-6 levels! This game Sooo Reminds me of the old-skl C&C:Tiberiun Sun days... PVE-RTS @ It's finest if you ask me! This game is like a mating of(cross between) My two Ultimate RTS favourites: 'Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun' & 'Creeper World' I for one Love it! -=-=-=-=-=-=- To the Devs: I Thank you for not using any A.I to voice the campaign storyline! Personally I prefer reading text, than having an A.I voice over... So Thank you for NOT jumping on the disliked/hated A.I bandwagon! That being said, I think you'll get much more engagement if you can afford to hire a couple of real Voice actors to provide you with Voice-Over for the Campaign storyline. If you're waiting until the game is at v1.0, before doing so... that is also understandable, as highering real VO ppl is expensive. Ultimately I give this game a 9/10 in It's current state... Adding real (human Voiced) VO for the Campaign messages, would push it upto a 10/10! Imo! Fore anyone who enjoys PVE-RTS... You'll Love this game!

You're supposed to outrange the growing enemy, not being VASTLY outranged by it. I just don't understand the purpose of this game.

如果你刷到这个评论我建议你不要购买这个游戏，开发者完全没有玩过游戏，糟糕的单位寻路一堆单位挤在一起然后就开始鬼畜不开火，导致一堆单位莫名其妙死亡，开发者压根不关注游戏体验性，非常的差，对面有迫击炮伤害高，经济并不是无限的，巨难打一直在拉锯，拉锯也就算了一堆建筑和单位挤在一起结果是单位不开火搞的人非常高血压，这种狭窄区域的游戏就不适合给载具加碰撞和阵型，一移动一堆单位就跑去送死，强行上压力。我只能说作者就是个傻Ⅹ。玩的人血压飙升

It feels like it downgrades each time I come back to play... Upgrade system is now a tedium and quite poor, yet plays a large part in the game (or it should but not upgrading and just rushing more of everything seems to work better now). Any semblance of upgrades for range in units or defences seemed to have disappeared whilst my enemy continued to have what seemed like 'true' upgraded turrets, making for a very one sided game of attrition with their limitless spam. Artillery are still pathetic, even more with the upgrades as they are now. I don't understand the direction intended.

I like the game, but right now, I cannot recommend it. All the core mechanics are fine, but the game feels so slow and tedious. It seems like the developer felt that the maps were too small, so instead of increasing the map size, your units were slowed down to make the map "feel" bigger. Problem: This has been only applied to your units. The enemy creeper-vines and units seems to be kept their original speed. This, combined with some horrendous pathfinding of your units, leads to a lot of frustration. You will lose units, because either your anti-air units decided to move, instead of shooting down the incoming projectile, or your tank decided to stop and slowly turn instead of driving backwards. I hope this will be addressed before the full release, because all the elements are there for a fun game.

Firstly - this game may be expensive for the content included to date. With that being said, what is here is absolutely fantastic. Had a great time strategising and pushing back the calyx. I think if they keep adding more content it will be amazing

Very cool, it scratches a very specific itch I've had as long as I've been playing games, going back to being a kid playing with browser-based zombie infection/game of life/falling sand games, to see something organic spread exponentially within a gameplay space and try to influence it. Truly tactically satisfying, with long-term strategic lessons to be learned as you research additional upgrades, with a lot of flexibility in your initial technique in the race to gain control of territory and resources before you lose the initiative. It sounds stressful but you have pause and speed controls so you don't need to be overwhelmed. You do, however, need to learn the behaviours of the Calyx and have a plan to deal with it - it will steamroll you if you do not secure the resources you need to tech up and hold your ground. Eagerly monitoring ongoing early access development =)