Amoeba Battle: Microscopic RTS Action
- March 3, 2020
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Reviews
- Amoeba Battle features a charming art style and engaging gameplay that appeals to both beginners and experienced RTS players.
- The game offers a unique approach to unit management, allowing players to control amoebas that can fight, feed, and breed, making for a fun and strategic experience.
- The addition of online multiplayer and cross-platform play enhances the game's replayability, providing opportunities for cooperative and competitive play with friends.
- The campaign is relatively short, lasting only 3-5 hours, and lacks substantial content, making it feel more like a long tutorial than a full game.
- The multiplayer experience suffers from a low player base, requiring players to bring friends to enjoy the game fully, as online matchmaking is often unavailable.
- Some gameplay mechanics, such as unit pathfinding and AI behavior, can be frustrating, leading to challenges in managing larger armies effectively.
- story18 mentions
- 17 % positive mentions
- 67 % neutral mentions
- 17 % negative mentions
The game's story is structured around a campaign with four distinct worlds, featuring a variety of missions that encourage replayability through adjustable difficulty levels and a mission timer. While the single-player experience offers a compelling challenge, the cooperative "outbreak mode" enhances the gameplay, allowing players to tackle missions together and customize their units. However, some missions, particularly the final one, are criticized for being unengaging, and the absence of unique hero units may leave some players wanting more depth in the narrative.
“The addition of difficulty levels encourages replayability, and the variety of units allows players to do challenge runs or other such playthroughs.”
“Despite this, the mode is still quite compelling as a single player, with missions providing an increasing curve of challenge and tension.”
“But if you manage to bring along a friend or two, the game starts to truly shine with the outbreak mode, where you can cooperatively complete missions and upgrade your amoebas the way you want while completing some sort of co-op campaign.”
“Last mission on the campaign is deadly boring.”
“No hero units or particularly special missions.”
“There's finally a choice of difficulty for the campaign, but some of the missions seem nearly impossible on brutal.”
- graphics10 mentions
- 60 % positive mentions
- 40 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game's graphics are highly praised for their appealing art style and smooth performance, even on lower-end systems, earning a perfect score of 10/10. While the visuals are enjoyable in both gameplay and menus, some reviewers note a lack of depth in the overall design.
“Fun strategy game that favors better strategizing over brute-forcing in the harder difficulties, pleasant graphics in both the menus and the game and runs very well even on lower-end computers.”
“I love the bouncing mission visuals.”
“Visuals: 10/10”
- music8 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The game's music is well-designed and unobtrusive, but players note a significant lack of variety in tracks, which may lead to repetitiveness during extended play. Overall, the music aspect has received mixed reviews, with a rating of 5/10.
“The game's music and other audio is quite well-designed; however, there is a startling lack of music tracks in the game.”
“Though the music is very nice and unobtrusive, I can imagine that a large amount of play might leave the music feeling a bit lacking.”
“That said, there is one small issue with the game: music.”
“Music: 5/10”
- gameplay6 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The gameplay offers a magical experience in skirmishes against bots, with well-thought-out and balanced mechanics. However, players feel it lacks a rewarding infinite gameplay loop that is common in many modern games.
“Game mechanics are well-thought and balanced.”
- replayability4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
Amoeba Battle offers strong replayability through its multiple difficulty levels and mission timer, which encourage players to engage in challenge runs and varied playthroughs. The game's diverse unit options further enhance the experience, making it enjoyable and worth revisiting.
“Amoeba Battle is a game that strives to be an enjoyable experience with excellent replayability, and in my opinion, it succeeds.”
“The addition of difficulty levels (over the DSiWare game's fixed single difficulty) and a mission timer encourages replayability, and the variety of units allows players to do challenge runs or other such playthroughs.”
- atmosphere2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game's atmosphere is characterized by its bright and colorful visuals, with units that stand out against their backgrounds. The lively idle animations of the environment and characters contribute to a playful and friendly ambiance, making the overall experience enjoyable and engaging.
“Everything is very bright and colorful, units pop out regardless of what background they're on, the idle animations of the environment and amoebas are bouncy and fun, and the game overall radiates a friendly atmosphere.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The optimization for multiplayer performance is generally well-received, with users noting that it runs smoothly.
“The multiplayer performance is quite good.”
“The multiplayer performance is quite good.”
