Beetle Uprising

One of the levels for combat is someone's shallow grave. This is a super simple colony sim game with some base building elements, basic RTS combat and very straightforward genetics / breeding mechanics. Super enjoyable for fans of simple strategy games or those interested in the genre but need something less complex. The art style is peak too. Gives me a 2005 "my turn for computer stations" in second grade vibe.

Very early review but oh well. So far it's a pretty basic strategy game. get beetles with high stats via breeding them, fight off hoards of enemies or destroy spawn points in some missions and avoid losing the mission, and so on. One thing I find interesting is that the UI gives heavy mobile game vibes.

The most confusing game I have ever played. When you start you get a few big walls of images and text explaining the UI of the game and how certain things work (instead of an immersive gameplay tutorial). Once you have read everything you are left there with 2 starter beetles and the task to guess what comes next ... Of course you would go straight for missions and other things on the map. The beetles often failed and they always brought back only food. But your beetles Bronk and Hedgwir here need beds and toys to fill up their sleep and play bars ... that's a problem ... neither of those items were obtained after doing these missions TONS of times. They both got increasingly angry (orange then red) and then they didn't want to go on any more missons. End of the game there? For me it was because I'm not continuing on that. You don't either have 'goop' to fight the first enemy or a way to level up without waiting 10 years. Feels like a bad version of an idle game. My advice: go for a game that is more player-friendly! I hope I can refund it still.