Mech Builder

No time restraints, relaxing music and the ASMR clicking of pieces snapping into place. It's like doing a jigsaw, only with defined shapes and an instruction manual. Different categories of mechs, clearly inspired by every geeky IP going. They come in blocks of five which is just right for a single session. And at the end of it all you get to organise them on your increasingly cluttered shelves like a true collector.

Solid game if you're into kit building; 10/10

A relaxing game to play while watching a stream or just to unwind

On one hand, the actual clicking together and "building" the mechs is satisfying, and a good way to pass the time if you like this kind of thing. However, I think the biggest issue is just... the designs. All of them are derivative, by nature, so I don't fault it for that - my issue is that some of the designs just aren't very GOOD. Some sets don't particularly seem to represent the series they are ostensibly drawing inspiration from very well, but overall I think a lot of these are designs that wouldn't make good models, which harms the appeal of a game about making models. Some pieces attach in ways that seems to contradict their shape, and the implied articulation for some models is baffling. Maybe I'm nitpicking. Particularly the "mecha core" series bothers me. The linework is incredibly sloppy, with colour consistently leaking out of the linework. It looks cheap and shoddy. Between this and the incredibly vague disclosure that AI is used in "some assets" there is an air of laziness surrounding it. I would expect a small game made to emulate a niche hobby would show a little more reverence for the art of the hobby - this just feels cheap. More on par with a flash dressup game from 10+ years ago than it is with the actual hobby itself. If the dev actually cared about this being a love letter to the hobby, AI generated designs would not have been allowed to stay in the game - part of the magic of assembling gunpla is the knowledge that somebody, a TEAM of somebodies, worked together to create it for you to do so. AI dilutes this, because it removes effort in favour of rapidly reaching a lazily imagined "end result." I can't recommend it. I can't refund it, either, sadly, but I might save someone else that issue.

Very relaxing

Un jeux incroyable qui comble mon besoin de gunpla !