Разработчик: Pixel Machine
Описание
Introduction
Invasion Machine is a blend of a sandbox manager and RTS. Your goal is to command troops in an occupied province, in an effort of bringing back peace and order. Kill your enemies, help the civilian population, preserve the resources and the lives of your own soldiers.
The Setting
What led to our recent occupation of this land is still at the center of a heated political debate.What followed the invasion, was the worst scenario we may ever have imagined - we hoped we’d be able to instill better leadership and let this country rebuild itself. But that’s not what happened, though. Our toppling of the local government created a power vacuum in the area - which is now quickly leading to an unprecedented rise of new powers - the druglords, locally known as Guerrillas. If we don’t stop this transformation, this entire country is gonna explode. We were not preparing for this kind of wae, and it seems it’s the last moment when we can still turn things around.
You, as the Commander of this Peace Force are tasked with restoring order and preparing ground for a new, legitimate government.
The Mission
If we’re to ever leave this land, we must first win over the hearts and minds of the local population. The locals think we’ve ruined their lives and quite frankly - most of them hates us. In order to win their trust - we must do our best to push out the criminal element, neutralize the remaining opposition and offer humanitarian help to them.The Real Mission
Politicians run wars, and politicians only care about one thing - getting re-elected. In other words - your real job as the Commander is to make this war look good to the folks back home. Don’t get your soldiers killed, don’t lose too much equipment, and most importantly - don’t let the press see anything that would contradict the official story. And the official story? It’s obviously that we’re winning.The Campaign
Divided into 8 chapters. The game takes you through the entire story of the invasion, starting right after the main battle of the war ends. At the beginning you are given just a handful of troops and old, derelict equipment. Unarmored, soft-shell transporters on the frontline? Check. Woodland camo in a desert country? Check. The army wasn’t really prepared for a long invasion, and yours is just one of many missions in this conflict. So if you want better resources - you’re gonna have to prove to your superiors that you’re worth them. The campaign ends once you manage to secure your province and hold elections. When a new government can be trusted with taking the country over, we finally get to go home.
What will you be doing in the game?
- Killing your enemies (car ragdoll, shoot, turret)
- Using progressively better equipment
- Arresting those who you don’t kill
- Disrupting the drug trade
- Driving cars and leading convoys through conflict area
- Evacuating the wounded
- Hiring translators
- Retrieving damaged vehicles
- Getting ambushed
- Completing side tasks, crucial to keeping your bosses happy
- Sending out patrols
- Providing security in key locations
- Searching for contraband
- Controlling how the press sees this conflict
- Gaining intel on enemy forces
- Maintaining your relations with the locals
At the same time, your enemy will be:
- Trying to gain intel about you
- Patrolling
- Assassinating your VIPs
- Kidnapping your VIPs
- Retributing against locals who cooperate with you
- Ambushing your patrols
- Setting off IEDs
- Making money off contraband sale
- Trying to push you out of the province
What sets this game apart?
You’re supposed to preserve your units - your enemy might not treasure the lives of his soldiers, much - but you don’t have that luxury. This means casevacing the wounded and using tactical advantage when possible.Your units are not mindless robots - kill their friend, and they may enter frenzy. Hurt them, and they’ll quickly start bleeding out.
Your enemy has no satellite overview of the battlefield, like you do. To fight your forces, they first need to find out where you are. This means the AI will send out recon missions of their own - and if the scouts find high value targets - they’ll report the findings back and call for bigger operations.
The locals don’t really have the option of being completely neutral. If the enemy presence is strong in the province, they’ll start cooperating with them, instead of helping you out.
Although inspired by real wars fought in the past decade, this game depicts a completely fictional conflict and is not an attempt at social commentary. The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any resemblance to the names, character, or history of any person is coincidental and unintentional.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Core i5 2Ghz equivalent, must support SSE4
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 970 equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: This game is cpu-heavy.
Отзывы пользователей
Unless you're going to actively contribute to the game via feedback/testing and communicating with the dev, this game is currently frustrating in its current state.
-AI will get stuck on parked/disabled cars.
-Current missions are given out right at the start of the game that might be overwhelming if you're starting out.
-There's too much micro management, I wish this was more squad based controls/instructions and maybe controlling individual units when you want something specific.
-UI is also frustrating, I have to move medics away from a wounded/disabled person after stabilizing to pick them up, since your pointer focus will always go to the medic instead of the wounded person.
Its been about 5 years, while this type of game has a ton of potential. I cannot suggest buying it as it has been virtually unsupported in that time, and when updates do come out it fixes one thing and breaks another lol
game's as good as dead and very unfinished
Cannot possibly recommend.
The pathfinding is absolutely dire. I have lost count of the number of times men and vehicles have gotten stuck. The AI is a joke, both enemy and friendly. The UI keeps breaking, with the sub-missions overgrowing the unit orders panel, forcing you to use the contextual command wheel. The contextual command wheel thing is awful and will take years off of your life, I honestly just wanted to turn it off the entire time. And worst of all this is one of those games that confuses "realism" with being as pedantic as it possibly can. This is one of the most tedious RTS games I have ever played. As an example, to build a building you have to;
1. Send a truck to the off map HQ
2. Wait a minuet for it to get there
3. Manually order it to load with building supplies
4. Order it into a convoy
5. Pick out the driver
6. Order the convoy to to return to the AO
7. Wait a minuet for the truck to get back
8. Order the truck to the build site (remember to watch it the whole way or else it WILL get itself stuck!)
9. Order the truck to unload the building supplies
10. Order a soldier to build the building (you WILL need to keep an eye on him or he will just give up half way)
11. Realize that the largest cargo truck you have doesn't carry enough materials to finish the building, so you are going to have to repeat the process!
It is a similar process for Evacuating wounded, taking prisoners, and supplying locals with aid. Does this make the game feel more authentic? No. Does it make the game harder, Not really. Just really really tedious.
When a game spawn camps you and forces you to restart multiple times without even being able to leave the starting area, one must wonder if it is a skill issue or a game issue.
Clearly a skill issue, I should've dodged the RPG fire right out of the gate and smoked the 40 insurgents and growing with my elite team of 8
Not worth your money:
Doesnt get regular updates
Not in anyway optimised
Really good concept but at the minute lots of things are broke and its been in early access for ages.
Ive tried playing a few times and its meant to be an insurgency type combat however it just spawns hordes of enemies and its a constant attack on my troops before they can even do any of the humanatarian missions or projects..
Dont waste your money
What the Heck is this ? Is this a Mobile RTS or a Console RTS ? I mean I played some, and they were easier to control than this mess. They also made more sense than this.
The controls are atrocious, it's all contextual menus. Yeah, you read me right, you wanna move a unit, you select it, right click where you want it and then select the move command (you do have a shortcut, but I'm not sure its for move or fast move). Wanna attack someone ? Same deal, want to create a group, mount your units in a Humvee, heal that units, load that wounded guy in a vehicle, yep still the same. Oh and the icons are huge so you bet you're going to miss-click on the wrong target.
It wouldn't be an issue if your units weren't brain dead and had the accuracy of a Star Wars storm-trooper, you could then delegate the killing to them and focus on the rest, nope, you're going to have to micro everything. The enemies don't have that issue, they all engage at max range, whereas my guys need to close in, they have rocket launchers or some kind of artillery, things kept blowing up everywhere. I don't need a Humvee with a 50 Cal, I need a bunch of tanks.
Yeah, the screenshots and text make you feel like your going to do logistic stuff, checkpoints stuff and humanitarian things. Nope, welcome to hell, every hill has a sniper, every technical is filled with dudes with RPG and you're going to struggle to get your units out of that bush they all got stuck in, all the while HQ is complaining you're not stopping that drug deal, dude I just lost 5 dudes and 3 humvees that's not a priority.
Anyways, I see the potential but it's been cooking since what ? 2020 ? And it's still this rough ? Yeah nah I can't recommend.
I wish steam had a mixed review.
AS this game is good, but it also has a lot of issues.
I'd like to see the development continue further, and bugs and overall quality of life be improved. Like the navigation AI... Its horrible. Gets stuck all the time, constant looping, and overall jank.
Or the fact the camera can't be zoomed out very far, makes it very hard to find units.
Overall, lots of potential here, and very engaging game. I had a lot of fun. Its just the jank thats really holding this title back.
If you ARE going to pickup this game, MAKE SURE TO SWITCH TO THE PUBLIC BETA CHANNEL. IT HAS THE LATEST UPDATED GAME. WHICH GREATLY IMPROVES THE EXPERIENCE. if you don't well. Its going to not be a good experience.
I'm sure I'll change this to a thumbs up if it becomes more well developed, but currently the clunky UI and the lack of a pause feature make the game quite difficult to play.
There does seem to be the basis of a brilliant game however and I recommend you keep watching this one for now
I wish there was more building items for building forward base's, i really do enjoy the game and hope you carry on to update it and bring more stuff for us to play with
needs more updates
where to start ill just keep it simple dev comes back with a update once every 6 months it seems and then says sorry its my health i like to believe the guy but at this point just be honest and say if the game will ever be done or not. regardless if its really your health or not
its a good WIP game, as i say its WIP but even at its current stage its still fun a long way to go tho
I have a fair few hours on this game, the UI is bad, I want to get my guys to return to base, and there is fucking command missions blocking the button to have my guys go back to base. My 50 cal truck was ambushed by a band with small arms at close range, IRL that 50 cal would've torn up those guys, but for some reason my gunner can't aim and 2 of my guys ended up getting killed because my 50 cal can't engage a guy at 50 meters.
It has a lot of potential
I believe this game has the potential to be great but right now it is extremely hard to play because has soon as i leave the starting area my small squad of troops just get ambushed by tons of enemies and they all immediately die and i cant progress with any of the missions.
Mod support please, updat on Ai, and im sorry about the personal issues
CANCEL ALL NEGATIVE REVIEWS - THE DEV IS BACK!
This is probably one of the most interesting concepts for an RTS game that I've ever seen. Very few games specialize in the counter-insurgency gameplay like this game does.
The only suggestions that I have are to add more maps, more units, and increase the challenge! Allow the enemy AI to call in tanks or something if you don't do community outreach missions, OR if you attack them too often!
Loving the game a ton, keep going at it!
This game is good, but SO MANY BUG AND NO MORE UPDATE, the Dev also abandon the game, do not believe with all the buzzer said "check discord", because there is nothing to show on discord either, the latest commend on discord "The Dev is sick and stop updating" LOL
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Pixel Machine |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 03.04.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (474) |