McDROID

Great game for what it set out to be. I don't even generally like tower defense games but I really like this one.

this is a clear example of great ideas poorly executed.
if you like tower defenses where you can move in the arena, stick to orcs must die, the trailer of this game is misleading in the freedom you actually have, you have to micromanage and kite enemies that are too fast for your poorly balanced weak turrets, like for real they are so weak you'd wish you could spam them to slighly increase damage but you can't , the towers are stationary on very selected points of the map, unless you wanna spend precious resources to buy a temporary help thingie, feels cheap in every sense of the word. treat yourself dungeon defenders, orcs must die, iron brigade, Kingdom : classic. those are some better balanced and more enjoyable shooter TD.
not even the camera seems well thoughout, you gotta hold right mouse button in order to properly TPS move it, or else its stationary for no other reason other than ''Ayy Lmao''
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game makes no sense, you cannot pass the first level, therefor you cannot build or do anything ... also, for some reason, clicking the "support" button sends you to a porn website

It's a bit buggy and lacks some polish, but overall pretty charming and fun!

Also if you buy the game, I recommend you play the "single-2020" version (right click on the game > Properties > Betas > single-2020). It's a version of the game with much better performance and improved balance. Not sure why it's not enbaled by default.

I really wanted to like this game, it has plenty of charm and is a unique twist on tower defense. However, towers were uninteresting, and the core gameplay loop of having to run around to collect resources while coordinating your defense was just unfun. Missions are built around gems, a permanent resource that you're expected to farm on easier levels and spend on harder levels, which dilutes any strategy potential.

I sadly cannot recommand this game, SSAO causes visual bugs, I don't understand the game, no guides/dead game and apparently you can only play coop in asia, really sad and I'm really disappointed

No controls are explained to you, there is no option to disable controller-mode if it detects one plugged in, no way to operate the interface with mouse/keyboard in controller-mode, the first level is impossible on the default "souls" difficulty mode (and I do mean impossible, not just super-difficult), and the only two difficulties provided are "souls" and "toddler".

Fuck this game.

Edit to add score: 1/7; when I hate the very thought of this game as much as AC Odyssey's first DLC, I know I'm justified in giving it my lowest score. See the last sentence of my original review.

Play this with my kids. It's way fun. It bugs out some times while playing on co-op, but 90% of the time a level will run fine. Cute consept and fun after learning how to target attack specific targets with the bottom right trigger.

Big NOPE

Couldnt get past the 3rd spawn point on LEVEL 1.

Had all 4 turrets repaired, and the main module repaired to full.
Tried carrying a turret and manually shooting. didnt help. Just got swarmed by the little maggot things.

Tried 5 different times. Not worth trying more because its honestly not that fun, and super clunky.

Can not recommend if you are looking for multiplayer.
I ONLY got this game for it's Multiplayer at the request of a friend, but multiplayer is incredibly broken.

this game may be okay solo, but in multiplayer, we have encountered multiple bugs, even restarting the game for all participants only gave us different bugs. it kinda had what i was looking for in a casual-ish TD game, but the bugs made it unplayable.

tutorial mission worked, fine i guess, but since there is only one gun to begin with, there is nothing that CAN break. as soon as the first real mission starts, planting worked only for one player leaving seeds stuck to others and thus not growing more, certain enemies invincible for a different round, sound cutting out, controls not responding on host game, etc. and various more in only 30 minutes. we could not make it past 1-2 as broken as it was.

Honestly, this game has more bugs with multiplayer than the dredded *incert certain seventy-six game*.

3.5/10

ONLINE CO-OP REVIEW

Although the game technically features online co-op, it isn't listed in the Steam tags. I only found out about this feature via the Co-optimus website. However, after experiencing the online co-op first hand, I may have some guesses as to why you don't see it listed.

I liked that in McDROID, your droid can carry a turret around, and that you automatically begin repairing any devices (including friendly players) near you. Unfortunately, this is where my praise for the title ends.

My co-op partner and I experienced a laundry list of bugs when we attempted to play the campaign together. We saw dialogue at different times, and the sound cut out completely during the levels only to come back when we returned to the overworld. During certain maps I saw no level progress at the top of the screen (what wave we were currently on and how many waves were left) and was unable to actually construct towers. At one point, I saw towers visible on the map (and shooting enemies) that my co-op partner did not see. He asked me to construct towers in certain designated tower spots, but I couldn't, because towers were already there in my version of the map we were playing.

After restarting the level without seeing any improvements, we decided that a refund would be our best option. McDROID may be a very fun tower defense game. However, I purchased the game to play online co-op, and this game mode seems hopelessly broken.

The best tower defense hybrid game I have ever played.

Its got amazingly tight controls and inventive and rewarding tower variety. Every level feels creatively challenging and hits that sweet spot for difficulty progression.

Its quirky and fun and you can really tell the developer poured their passion into this.

I love tower defense but this one not so much. Like most of the others said - you have so few towers that are beyond weak compared to the swarm of mobs that come after you. It seems that you can double output by having towers focus on one - but this is not as easy as it seems since they are very fast and move all over the place and what seems like on top of each other.

Constant running for strawberries and then dropping them off makes this super micro managing.

McDroid's towers felt weak and ineffective to me, and no matter how many I churned out, including carrying one on my little robot's back, every wave felt like an excessive swarm of enemies. I enjoy the tower defense genre, and while I do love killing swarms of enemies, I never felt like my towers were effective at their job. Initially, you cannot upgrade them, and rather than income being awarded automatically, you have to plant strawberries in the ground and run around, grabbing them before they disappear in different areas, then run those back to your ship to turn them in. In fact, you have a low max number of berries you can carry, so you may have to make multiple trips.

After you've acquired strawberries and taken them back to your ship, which work as money for purchasing towers, you buy a tower, one at a time, and manually run it over to where you want it, and place it. Your towers can be destroyed by enemy mobs, but you can stand near them to heal them. Of course, that means you can't be acquiring funds for more towers if you're doing that. Although you can repair many devices (if they aren't completely broken), you cannot repair yourself, which means avoiding taking damage is pretty important. Environmental hazards (flaming ground) and swarms of fast-moving worms can make this challenging, and these further detract from the time you have to spend trying to do everything else.

There are also benign towers which up the damage of towers in the vicinity and clear up small areas of environmental damage, making them essentially necessary in certain spots to grow strawberries and avoid getting yourself killed from simply "being" in the area. Additionally, another currency exists: diamonds. These can come from a number of places, including but not limited to vaults you need to blast with lasers to open up, and that currency purchases different items altogether, such as consumable exploding barrels that act as mines which do not do anywhere near enough damage to kill a single generic creep in my experience. Of course, you have to manually pick the diamonds up and bring them back to your ship as well.

In between missions, you go to a somewhat plain, "floating island" sort of hub that is very simplistic and involves you walking to signposts representative of the next level or an older level, and interacting to go play it. Right at the beginning of it, you will see a DLC sign, and what resembles Michael Jackson dancing around some tombstones. Off to the sides are some arena challenges and other levels.

I did notice before quitting that there is a "Toddler" difficulty and a "Souls" difficulty...and that's it; nothing in between. There doesn't seem to be any sort of intended joke, either...it seems to want to be taken at face value for what it is: ego-stroking for the "hardcore" crowd and an insult for anyone not up to the challenge (deeming them toddlers). The Souls difficulty is the default.

Although a couple of my issues with this game (taking too much damage from the environmental hazards and dealing too little damage to enemies) may have been alleviated or improved upon by playing the Toddler difficulty instead, everything about the strawberry growing/gathering, what felt to me like unenjoyable work running around completing other busy work, and inexplicable single player lag on my PC that runs Prey and Resident Evil 7 at max settings, all just just put me off on this game. It's not Steam garbage, of course, as it has its own decent (if a bid blurry even at high settings) art style, voice acting I liked (the ship), and I can tell it did take effort to make. If you want tower defense games, I would instead recommend stuff like Kingdom Rush, Sanctum 2, Plants Vs Zombies, or Defender's Quest.

A Tower Defense game, between average and good. Graphics are colourful, but need a powerfull hardware to run, even in low quality; when screen has plenty of action, can cause lags and crashes.

Mechanics is right; has only 5 towers to choose, but each has 4 possible upgrades. Also there is 5 kinds of powerfull items, with a crescent price by use. Towers and items must be unblocked by ingame progress. The economy is based in a mixed system of farming and gems, to buy towers, upgrades and items.

The gameplay is a harsh challenge, because its normal difficulty is high, and indeed there are two more hard modes: really no has an easy mode. The enemy bugs are varied, but as there aren't pathways in scenaries, they go where they want to, attacking towers directly: the player must to defend himself, his base, his crops, and his towers, and are very weak. And if this not was enought, enemy has air supremacy and does shellings... As result, game only can be finished by using a lot the special items, specially in harder mode.

Finish the 13 scenaries in 3 modes take about 60 hours, reaching a 80% of achievements. As has a childishs style and story, a coop option and don't show violence against humans (except a poor scenary about zombies), is very recomendable for children, surely its good reputation come from their opinions.

So, speaking of outlandish premises, here's another that has that in spades. Is it a better game than Last Hope? I'd say so, and I would recommend it, but with some caveats.

The game stars the titular McDroid, who the game refers to as a dog-bot, and his friend a talking shuttle named...Shuttle. They return back to their friend Planet (who is a sentient) after a trip to find thing are a bit different. She's completely silent, mutated creatures are roaming about, and mysterious messages are around from an entity called the Somanto Corporation. You can probably see where this is going, and while I didn't find it too insufferable since you play as machines, the game does have an environmental message.

To heal Planet you'll need to heal special flowers to bring her back to the way she was, and to do that you'll need to protect Shuttle from the mutants Somanto's action have let loose. Like Orcs Must Die or Spacejacked you control McDroid and have an avatar in the fights. Unlike other games though, you don't just get money from killing enemies: instead you have to collect seeds strewn across the level or dropped at scripted moments and plant them. They'll sprout strawberries every so often, which you need to grab and bring back to Shuttle. Then you can spend them. Certainly a unique change but not entirely a welcome one, although you do unlock a unit that will do that for you later on in the game.

You can spend the berries on turrets, extra health or equipment for McDroid and Shuttle, and...Bonsai trees? The game has a terrain mechanic to it, where you can put trees in the same spots as your towers; they don't do any damage on their own, but spawn greenery in a certain radius. If a turret is in that distance, it deals much more damage. You can only put things in certain spaces, but McDroid has room for at least one turret or plant to carry around with him, so there's a lot of room to experiment.

Where it gets tricky is that the enemy has their own terrain, a lavaish field that deals constant damage to anything inside it - this is another game where your towers can get attacked, although thankfully McDroid can repair them by default, and quickly too. Plants can counteract the field, but they sort of cancel each-other out, so it's a good idea to have your turrets get rid of whatever is causing it, usually the corpse of some bigger monster. To do that though you click on it, which distracts them away from anything else, so you need to pick the right time.

It might sound like the levels have a lot to keep track of, and you're right. You're almost always on the move in McDroid, whether it's to collect some berries, shoot some debris, or boost your towers. That becomes a pain in certain things, like if you want to upgrade a tower; you need to have him holding the one in question before you can, which is cumbersome at times. To upgrade your kit you also need to personally collect gems that drop from destroying certain things or opening chests. You do get a grace period when the level's over to collect things you missed, and there are a few levels where you need to do other things in addition to surviving all the waves, which ensures you won't get booted out before you can get them all. You can use gems in levels to buy specialty things, such as some helper units that attack enemies for you or extra spaces for turrets and plants.

I finished all the main levels in McDroid except for the last one, which almost seems designed for co-op (which the game has), since you have to keep track of things in all four directions. That took me five hours. That's probably the biggest caveat: besides the story levels, there just seems to be more challenging versions of those levels and some endless arena levels. The game's twenty dollars full price, but even at five dollars, which I bought it at, you'd need to really like the game to get much out of it besides the bare minimum. I can't really say it's a bad game, since there does seem to be a lot of effort to put in, and it looks really nice. I might be less pleased with it if I have gotten it at full price, though. If you want a unique game that's a bit imperfect, McDroid could interest you.

McDroid is a very silly and bizarre game, with a setting that sounds like a story Pee-Wee Herman would tell. Its light hearted, but certainly has some advanced humor.

The gameplay is deceptively challenging, with a number of different activities to balance in each level. Should you leave one un-attened for too long, you will quickly find yourself in a pickle.

The tutorials are not entirely intuitive, so make sure you look at all the signs! Fortunately the gameplay is starightforward enough that you might not need it, though there is more depth than there appears to be at first glance.

I enjoy it, and look forward to playing more with friends!

A very nice and colorful take on tower defense, really feels like a war of push and pull. Very snappy and responsive controls I was not expecting the game to respond so quickly. Nice colorful characters that do not get on your nerves at all. They have a lot of fun with the dialouge which makes the characters endearing... at least for me. Its like running around and gardening as a dog. There is very much something here for both the casual and hardcore players. I recomend you bring a friend for many of the levels it always felt like I could do so much more if i had just a little helping hand. You can't really stand still to admire your grand defense in this, there is always something to do ecouraging you to stay on the move which I like a lot.

Mcdroid is perhaps one of the most fun spin-off TD's i've played to date. Don't let the video or graphics fool you, this game can get really hard quite fast. The fact it also allows co-op on every level is another plus which makes the game that much more fun. I recommend this game to anyone that loves TD's and is looking for a challenge.

If you like tower defense you will love this game! Very fresh and very pretty. Amazing cel shaded graphics and robot characters reminiscent of Borderlands' clap-trap but sans the annoying voice.

Mcdroid is a great game, its really good. Everything is good, from gameplay, to progression, economy, enemies, ect.

Every match you plant seeds in pre-placed seed beds, which produce strawberries, which act as the games currency for buying and upgrading towers. This adds a additional element many tower defense games don't have, as you need to defend your strawberry patches. The other currency is diamonds. Diamonds are gained from certain enemy kills, and are used to buy tower upgrades and special abilities.

There is alot of variety with the towers and upgrades, and the game is fun both in single and multi player. There is a limited number of campaign levels, estimated about 5 hours playtime. However there are hardcore and survival versions of almost every level which can ramp up the game time considerably, and are very fun. Playing online is also considerably fun.

All in all a great game, worth the money and recommended to tower defense and arcade shooter fans.