Bad Bots
Bad Bots is a retro style platform shooter with intense robot blasting action and sci-fi story. In Bad Bots you hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a…
Bad Bots is an indie, released 17 May 2013 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Bad Bots is
Bad Bots was released in 2013. It was published by Digital Tribe. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.
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Bad Bots is a retro style platform shooter with intense robot blasting action and sci-fi story. In Bad Bots you hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potentially planet-destroying catastrophe. Bad Bots stars Sam McRae, a grease mechanic aboard the "Titan Hauler" space cargo ship who wakes from cryogenic hypersleep to discover the ship's robotic crew has been reprogrammed to destroy humans. Even worse, the ship has been rerouted on an explosive collision course with Earth. You can play either the Challenges Mode to see if you can survive sixty seconds in a room with an endless supply of robots or the story-based Campaign Mode that includes…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Bad Bots holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Bad Bots launched on 17 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
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