Obliterator-X

Obliterator-X is a roguelite action game with tower defense mechanics set in the Australian outback. You play as a clone fighting off waves of mutants and laser emus (damn you, laser emus!). Feels fitting to be in the apocalyptic world, and you scavenge sticks of RAM from piles of mutant corpses. Wish there were drop bears tho. Each run has you gathering resources, setting up defenses, and preparing for increasingly challenging enemy waves. It can get surprisingly tough, but thanks to its roguelite progression, losing never feels overly punishing. Even failed runs reward you with XP, unlocks, and keeping scavenged weapons, making each attempt feel meaningful progression. Overall, it’s a solid package with that classic “just one more run” pull as you experiment with different defensive structure layouts and try to find better guns. Protips: Stack on reload speed perks and get guns with exploding bullets. 7/10 Horde Challenges Video: https://youtu.be/zcx3RMyPQ6c

It has a bit of basic base defense while you fight off waves of the swarm. Way better product than I expected for an obscure game like this, with some striking audio/visuals. That said, I found it boring to play.

Obliterator-x is a core defense game (if thats even a genre) where you try to defend the core in the middle of the map, using drone you can purchase permanently, tower that you can build using the temporary currency in the map and your own skills and gun. There is no set path the wave spawn it which is why i wouldn't consider this a traditional tower defense game and you can finish level without tower if you want althoug ha bit harder. In between wave, you also have the chance to explore the map a little and try to find better weapon, loot or temporary upgrades which make it more interesting than just a tower defense game. I had a few complains at the start like no minimap, or the noise mechanic not making sense but you can unlock the mini map and unlock a skill that make the sounds go down after each wave pretty soon so these complains were gone pretty fast. You will have to grind the maps a little bit before going to the next one or you will be underleveld or a bit undergeared if you don't, making the next one harder. Some people might not like that but i found that it was fine, not too grindy but not too fast either. The only remainings small complain that i have is that i wish i could zoom out the game even more, i know that clicking the right joystick once unzoom it a bit but it still feel too close to me, and after defeating a boss, i wish i had more time to collect the loot the enemy dropped. When having multiple turrets and drone, you have a really big range to collect stuff and i'm often seeing the end screen with multiple loot that i wasn' able to collect.

I feel like my experience is not really representative of the game, at least balance-wise, because I got a gun so strong in the first level after the tutorial that I used it until the credits rolled. So an aspect that I imagine is supposed to be fun, which is the looting, was just ignoring 99% of all guns dropped because every gun was weak af compared to the one I got 20 min into the game. The screen felt really busy, and a lot of the time I had trouble finding my cursor and had to shoot my gun first to find it. Also, the default zoom of the game is way too close, and you change it by pressing a keybind, so the majority of my experience I felt like there was something wrong with the resolution since you can't change the zoom in the settings. The game overall feels clunky in a gamey way, and with a banger OST that cements the game away from feeling atmospheric. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I imagine some more polishing would really improve the game. With that said, I don't think it's a bad game, along with a cheap price, it might be worth it if you are stuck playing on a potato or you want some flash game nostalgia feeling. I just felt I could have spent my time on a better game. If they polish the rough edges, you might find a worthwhile game.

this is early access at best riddled with bugs, balance issues, qol issues, ... not worth the price tag imo

For the amount of fun you will get for this price its well worth it. From the sound desing, interface, art and gameplay i give it a 10/10 across the board. The UI is so well thought and I enjoyed the intuitive tutorial with a cool story. Music is a banger. This is one of those games that we will see as overwhelmingly positive as it offers a unique combination from other games that I was just looking for and it is really well made.

This game is a love letter to other flash games I remember playing as a kid. It's polished, has great rpg elements, and progression to make the waves feel very rewarding. The graphics, and carnage are great on screen and to have an interesting story to boot? I'm sold! Super fun as a shooter, and base builder hybrid. I'm already telling my other friends to give this game a try too! Always nice when you find something new that comes out of the blue :D

This game managed to scratch a very hard to reach itch that I have for the old days playing flash games. I came here and got exactly what I was looking for. Not too deep, yet every detail was thought and planned carefully. Played once and finished the game. Realized that I can play [spoiler]without skin[/spoiler] and did it with a new game from scratch. finished it. Learnt about new game plus, had to do a third gameplay. The learning curve is fine, at one point I had to rethink and plan out my stuff and actually play tower defence. Just finished 100% the game. Definetively worth the money and you can tell it has a part of the developer heart. The bosses may seem a little underwhelming but that's because they shine later on in the [spoiler]hoard mode[/spoiler] and the [spoiler]new game plus[/spoiler] Now this things that I'd like to point out. The game as it is fine. But I want to point out some of the following: 1) There are some weapon modifiers that I don't know what they do. There's no ingame description, sandbox to test things out or an outside wiki to check 2) some weapon modifiers are there but don't really add to the game, like poison and ice. Ice doesnt do much since you're slowing the enemies when they're almost near the emitter. Poison is dot but in this game you need to kill enemies fast enough to prevent the emitter being destroyed and that timing makes poison dot almost useless.