Grey Goo

I have goo in my Library.

Pete Like.

Working through my game backlog during quarantine and stumbled across this. It's a pretty cookie cutter RTS with a lot of scifi tropes that games like Starcraft did earlier and better. The AI is suicidal and requires constant micromanagement. Your units will never defend themselves unless prompted to i.e. you can have a whole army of "advanced" units in a staging area and if one enemy happens to saunter by, that enemy will engage your troops, whittling them down one-by-one unless you notice and command your troops to attack. You may (unreliably) get a notification that you're being attacked - it won't tell you where or what unit or even ping the map. You can't play how you want to in most missions. There is usually some constraint or artificial impeding that dictates exactly how, when, and with what units you can accomplish your tasks. While that might seem desirable for a strategy game, it comes off as capricious and takes any real "strategy" out of the mission i.e. the very last mission where you can only win if you build a specific unit of a single type in large numbers. Worst of all, the entire game is SEQUEL BAIT. If I could score this game it'd get a solid 65%. Play time high due to idling.