Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution
Acorn Assault is a quirky, tail-bobbing turn-based strategy game. Raise an army, overthrow a tyrant King and save the oppressed squirrels! Do you have what it takes to start a Rodent Revolution? The squirrels…
Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution is an indie developed by High Tale Studios, released 2 March 2016 on Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution is
Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution is an indie game developed by High Tale Studios and released in 2016. It is available on Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
King Lois the Umpteenth and his queen Marie Antoinutte reigned over the poor and starved squirrels of the forest. The king's greed knew no bounds and set out to bankrupt his people by taxing their hard earned acorns. With no acorns to any of the peasant's names they grew angrier and angrier as each day passed. On one cold dark evening, the King had sent his loyal tax man to collect the acorns from Charles DeMontequirrel who had refused to pay the unjust nut tax. As the tax man knocked on Charles' wooden door it swung wide open. Charles stood before the tax collector visibly upset as he was scolded for not following the king's unfair decrees. Charles could no longer simply refuse to pay up…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, historical and kids. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 45% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-core 2.0 GHz and 2 GB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution launched on 2 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, SuperHot and Hitman. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, SuperHot, Hitman.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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