Gimbal

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"Gimbal is a multiplayer shooter game featuring real-time combat with customizable vehicles. Choose from 142 parts to build your ship for power, speed, durability, handling, and awareness. With support for 16+ players, multiple game modes, and no DLC or fees, Gimbal offers a complete and exciting gaming experience."

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+10

78%

Audience ScoreBased on 104 reviews

atmosphere2 positive mentions

optimization2 negative mentions

The ship building mechanics are highly customizable and allow for both simple and complex designs, making it accessible for new players while offering depth for experienced ones.
The game features fun multiplayer gameplay, especially when played with friends, and offers a variety of game modes and maps.
Despite being abandoned, the game still provides enjoyable offline play with bots, allowing for creative experimentation with ship designs.

The game has been abandoned by developers for years, resulting in a lack of updates and a dwindling player base, making multiplayer sessions rare.
Performance issues arise during gameplay, especially with larger battles involving many bots, leading to lag and crashes.
The absence of a single-player mode and a robust online community limits the game's replayability, as most players are left to battle against bots.

gameplay
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is accessible for younger players while offering depth for advanced users, particularly in ship building and combat mechanics. Although the multiplayer focus can lead to boredom when playing against bots, the customizable controls and extensive design options enhance the experience. Overall, the game is praised for its realistic mechanics and engaging ship construction, making it worthwhile, especially on sale.
- “Mechanics are simple enough that a 9-year-old can play it, but with the 'mastermind' class available, the ceiling is virtually endless, only capped by your understanding of how to build a ship and your ability to see which pixel has extra spaces for parts.”
- “The controls were good once you figured out how to map and design your ship. The ship-building mechanics were superb, if a bit ridiculous once they uncapped the cost limit, and the different crafts you could run into would amaze you.”
- “Controls are 100% customizable and never hinder gameplay.”
- “Since the game is mostly inclined towards multiplayer gameplay, it gets a bit boring just playing with bots, but there are a couple of servers with players on them.”
- “Unfortunately, all you can do with the designs you have built and tested is participate in old-fashioned multiplayer arenas, a grossly obsolete form of gameplay.”
- “Mechanics are simple enough that a 9-year-old can play it, but with the 'mastermind' class available, the ceiling is virtually endless, which is only capped by your understanding of how to build a ship and your ability to see which pixel has extra spaces for parts.”
atmosphere
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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25%
25%
The atmosphere in Gimbal is characterized by a high-stakes, top-down space environment where players build and customize ships for combat. The game effectively combines elements of maneuverability and aerodynamics, creating an engaging experience as players navigate and battle in the upper atmosphere. Overall, it offers a dynamic and immersive setting for ship-building and combat.
- “Gimbal is a top-down, high-atmospheric space game in which you build ships to destroy other ships.”
- “Great build-and-brawl high-atmosphere flight game, where it pays to fine-tune and customize your ships, but you can throw something together that will work with a little experience under your belt.”
- “It's a 2D top-down space shooter set in the upper atmosphere; as such, you need to deal with maneuverability via thrusters, but aerodynamics are still a factor.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's optimization is severely lacking, with reports of extreme lag and performance issues, particularly in large-scale battles with numerous bots. Additionally, it has not received updates in several years, contributing to its overall poor performance, even with smaller ships.
- “The game is dead and abandoned, with no updates in over 7 years. It's extremely laggy and poorly optimized; having over 20 vs. 20 bots significantly affects performance.”
- “I experience occasional performance problems, especially with small ships, not just the monster unlimited-budget ships that have been introduced recently.”
graphics
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The graphics are praised for their appealing art style and impressive sense of scale, contributing to an enjoyable visual experience. Players appreciate the customization options and the fact that good ships can be obtained through gameplay rather than payment. Overall, the visuals enhance the fun and engaging nature of the game.
- “It has an appealing art style and sense of scale to it.”
- “Simple fun with great visuals and sound; I loved the customized feel to it and that you don't have to pay to get a good ship, just play!”