Take to space in this resource collection, upgrading, mech fighting game where you seek to conquer the stars and take down mutants.

Pros

• Theme looks cool
• Nice Mech minis
• Price
• Good Rules explanation
• Pilot/Mech mechanic

Cons

• Shipping
• Previous Kickstarter didn’t succeed for it

Page

This campaign does so much right for me. Though, there are some concerns for some backers mainly because they can’t guarantee that VAT will be paid. But the page itself is laid out amazingly well. Yeah, you get the shots of the minis and everything shiny that you are going to get, but they have a massive rules section. It might not tell you how you do everything in the game completely, but it gives you a clear direction with it, and that’s way more than can be said for most Kicktarters. They do a good job of laying everything out and making it look like a really good game and campaign.

Game

So there’s one main thing about the is game that really interests me, and a lot of other things that look cool, but a bit more normal. In the game you have your pilot for your mech and you have your mech. Each pilot has four skills, and each mech matches up to two of those skills. The pilot aboard and mech board sit next to each other and you can see how that lines up, and depending on your combo, you’ll get a different feel with a different pilot each time for the same mech. I think that’s not extremely unique, but really cool and something that makes the game feel interesting and like it can grow a lot.

I also like that you can upgrade the mech in the game. You don’t start with weapons, you’re just a lowly mining mech or something like that, and you have to start out by collecting resources to get your weapons before you can even think about going and fighting mutants. This gives the game even more feel that it’ll be replayable over time because you don’t know what upgrades you’ll be seeing or what different set-ups you can create.

Back or Brick

So would I back this game, I’m changing up the verbiage there because sometimes I just can’t back a game for money reasons, but would I back this game? Yes, for me this is a Back not a brick. This game has a cool theme, and I like that it isn’t just run in there and punch stuff, you get to build up your mech the way that you want it. To me that is more interesting than it would be just as a dice chucker. Plus it seems replayable, and if it does well, I would guess we’ll see more mechs and more pilots to create an even greater diversity in the combinations.

So for you, is this a back or a brick?

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