Forbidden planet

About

"Forbidden Planet" is a Space Strategy and Tower Defense game where you control a small spaceship and protect your home planet while exploring the universe for resources and colonizing other planets. The game features a combination of 2D and 3D graphics, deep strategic gameplay, and a variety of planets, spaceships, asteroids, and music by Projecteur. Your main goal is to defend your planet from asteroids and other threats while expanding your interstellar empire.

Genres & Tags

Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

38%

Audience ScoreBased on 116 reviews

gameplay5 positive mentions

stability2 negative mentions

The game has a decent graphic style and enjoyable music.
It can be a fun little game to kill time and offers a casual gaming experience.
Some players found it to be a good method to banish boredom and enjoyed the strategy elements.

The game suffers from poor balance and unpolished mechanics, making it frustrating to play.
Many players found the gameplay repetitive and lacking in depth, with a confusing tutorial.
The user interface is clunky and can lead to a frustrating experience, with bugs and glitches affecting gameplay.

gameplay
19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
26%
53%
21%
The gameplay has been criticized for being overly simplistic, repetitive, and plagued by glitches and a poor user interface. Many players find the mechanics convoluted and unbalanced, leading to a lack of enjoyment, while others note that the game lacks clear instructions and engaging objectives. Despite some positive remarks about graphics and potential mechanics, the overall consensus is that the gameplay experience is disappointing and needs significant improvement.
- “It has unique gameplay but not the mechanism.”
- “Graphic is decent, music is enjoyable, and gameplay provides enough fun without getting boring any time soon.”
- “Good mechanics and good visuals, but the game itself needs more items to explore and a bit more fuel capacity to travel even further.”
- “The gameplay is incredibly repetitive, with the only objectives being 'survive x asteroid waves' and 'earn x amount of money', with both objectives being completed by playing the game the same way.”
- “The gameplay is simpler compared to other tower defense games.”
- “Poor tutorial/instructions, controls, and gameplay.”
story
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
18%
65%
18%
The game's story is minimal and lacks depth, primarily revolving around resource management and mission completion rather than a compelling narrative. Players engage in repetitive tasks across various missions, with little emphasis on character development or plot progression. While some elements, like escort missions, introduce strategic thinking, the overall experience is described as tedious and uninspired, lacking the excitement typically associated with action or adventure games.
- “Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
- “Rymdresa: a space story in poetry with awesome graphics and art.”
- “Despite the varying missions, most levels can be done with the same strategy: find a planet to colonize and put some turrets in it.”
- “This game has no action or adventure, no fun, no decent plot or anything.”
- “The same mechanic/map is reused each time with a slightly increasing difficulty in the mission completion objective. There's not much point in colonizing the planets since they get blown to smithereens rather easily, your ship can't shoot so you can't actively defend them, and while you are out collecting resources, you cannot keep an eye on what's going on with your resource gathering nodes.”
- “Despite the varying missions, most levels can be completed with the same strategy: find a planet to colonize and put some turrets in it. Although you'll be busy setting these up at the beginning, it doesn't take long before it becomes a waiting game - you'll need to fast forward the game and wait for several minutes until the mission objective is completed.”
graphics
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
47%
35%
18%
The graphics in the game receive mixed reviews, with some users praising the decent quality and artistic design, while others criticize the poor quality and stuttering visuals during gameplay. Overall, the visuals are described as nice and well-built, but there are concerns about performance issues and a lack of high-quality graphics in certain aspects.
- “Forbidden Planet is viewed from the cockpit of your craft, with the action displayed in vector graphics.”
- “Anomaly series: really old school strategy with great artwork.”
- “Rymdresa: a space story in poetry with awesome graphics and art.”
- “Some visuals stutter when you fast forward in the middle of an attack.”
- “Graphics are very poor quality 2D top-down style, but at least the developers didn't use pixel graphics.”
- “My computer can play a lot of big games with high-quality graphics, so why is it lagging?”
music
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
20%
30%
The music in the game receives mixed reviews; while some players find it enjoyable and relaxing, others criticize it as boring and repetitive, likening it to "elevator music." Overall, the soundtracks are appreciated, but many feel that the music could be more exciting to enhance the gameplay experience.
- “I relaxed for 5 minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.”
- “Awesome soundtracks.”
- “Graphic is decent, music is enjoyable, and gameplay provides enough fun to not get boring any time soon.”
- “This sucks; it's a boring game with slow gameplay, elevator music, and not much to do.”
- “Instead of just trashing the unclear directions, bad grammar, elevator music, and general pointless gameplay of the forbidden planet, let me give you a list of 18 'better' uses of your time in space, fellow star voyager!”
- “[0.2] sound & music”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The stability of the game has been criticized for its broken user interface, frequent glitches, and unbalanced gameplay, leading to a frustrating and buggy experience for players.
- “Broken UI, glitches, and unbalanced gameplay.”
- “Not fun, buggy UI.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious, particularly criticizing the cumbersome purchasing system and the lack of engaging reactions. However, some feel that the overall experience is somewhat mitigated by the game's free price point.
- “Ugh... that game could be made so much better with more 'reactions'... or buying fuels is so tedious. The way you buy things is frustrating, but considering that I got it for free, it's not that bad.”