Underplayed Gems

Mechanibot (2022)

Mechanibot cover
Developer
Jon Nielsen
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Action, Strategy
Rating
4.6 of 5, 62 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 4.5 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

A strategic, hands-on auto battler where you actively guide cute robots through tense, tactical waves.

tacticalreactivestrategiccutefast-pacedchallengingreplayable

What players say

Players praise the active twist on the auto-battler genre where you personally move and heal robots during battle, but they consistently criticize the lack of randomness in levels and enemy order, which hurts replayability. The grind for permanent upgrades divides players, with some finding it too vertical.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.