Deep Among the Swarm

I really wanted to like this game as I generally like these sort of alien swarm / TD games. I could not get over how bad the controls were, it took all the fun out of the game. Yes I can rebind some things but my biggest complaint is the build layout. I should not need to be memorizing starcraft build macros for something this simple. WHY is the most common building the LAST thing? I'm always going to build miners and expand my build area, put those first! I am microing some units and want to click on the turret next to them and build a copy, why can't I do that? Why do you need to go > back to drill > Back to subtab > click the thing you already had selected. Too frustrating.

My 2 cents on this - I rate a game on how many hours i play on it - 1 hour per £. The game is £7.49 and i've played almost 38 hours on it. I also enjoy how the dev is active and trying his best to improve the game as it goes along. The game is in early access, and people know the risks of early access. All reviews both positive and negative are good as it helps the developer. Negative reviews before a 1.0 release should be constructive, and after the 1.0 release the reviews should be mostly positive because the bad reviews have helped the dev sort problems out. I love that the dev is active with the small community that plays his game in the discord. Ideas flow and the game develops. It gets better slowly over time. My biggest issue is the burrowers. The fact they can show up randomly without much warning really slows down the progression inside the map. My suggestion to fix this is - have burrowers spawn invisible at the spawn points, and walk towards the drill. Then when they attack the drill, their cloak disappears. They ignore everything that can block a normal mob. The only counter is to have the vision tower the only tower that can detect burrowers and will uncloak them. This makes a redundant building useful. :)

Very satisfying gameplay loop of expand, consolidate, push. Great little RTS with quite a bit of depth.

Good game, but too easy once you have plenty of unlocks. Massed defenses can defeat anything. Challenge difficulty increases only slowly, but removing the unlocks and restarting might create challenge, I'm not sure.

The gameplay itself is enjoyable, but the way the game is set up isn't, which is why I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who doesn't want to invest 50-100 hours+ into a game like this. The game progresses with digging down. Once you lose you'll have to start all the way up from the top again and you'll get to unlock some meta progression that lets you go a little deeper the next time, or make the rounds a bit faster. The individual gameplay levels take way to long to have this be an enjoyable grind, so it just ends up being frustrating.

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It's a combination of different ideas that I think works ok enough and occupies an interesting niche. Many games in this broadly similar or adjacent category (e.g. They Are Billions, Glory to Goo) have this enormous pressure to be fast and efficient and you have to be ready in time for the final wave at pre-defined time. In this game, it's more easygoing, and also not as complicated as, say, Mindustry. You choose when to trigger the final wave (with tradeoffs) and you can take your time, build up proper defenses and enjoy what you've created. There's also an interesting upgrade/crafting system that lasts within a run which makes each run interesting. It's easier to have fun with this game than the other games in this genre, I feel like. I really like it. Unfortunately it does have issues with UI design and the core gameplay loop is quite narrow. The map generation is also a bit limited. But it's also a very low-priced indie game. If you liked any of the other games I mentioned above, do try this one out.

Really, really fun game - - simple and very engaging; it has undoubtedly improved since early access. Though, it seems the spawn rates are way down. The swarms/spawns could be larger and more frequent (though I have not yet unlocked the hardest difficulty). I wish there were hero units that you can level/etc. and take from mission to mission - - maybe like a mech or android - - to keep with the theme. This, I think, would fit nicely with the game mechanics.

A rather fun game, involving running about to explore and attack. I wish it was a bit more player friendly, since I do not have the mental capacity to build up the base, and send two explorer teams out to map out the caverns at the same time. I also wish there were some more options, specifically for the infantry, as it appears to boil down to rifles or shotguns, at least in my experience so far.