Nice game! Cool weapons!

Suggestion: when you get intel, the notification could preview what it’s about.

I hope there will be an upgrade for dash instead of acceleration.

I got an S rank on level 7 using a shotgun and spider mines, but it was very difficult compared to other levels. I was too curious about the new intel to step back. The pixel art there looks great.

Is collateral damage bad for the rating?

Id like to report a funny bug. When you tab out to a different program, like Discord, certain colliders dissapear. It is very noticeable in level 7 where if you tab out during the loading sequence the enemy to the right of the entry elevator will phase through the walls and shoot you, but when you tab in the colliders come back so it cant shoot anymore. I was very confused and had to replicate the bug through sound only lol.

Also I love this game but getting an S rank on level 6 and 7 is so difficult, especially with the targetting difficulties of level 7. Very fun tho. Keep up the good work!

this is so fire! my only gripe is the lack of sick action synth music, but i have a feeling that’s temporary :3c

ITS A AMAZING GAME ,  I have played all the missions of this game honestly its the first indie game i am actually waiting to get famous i have A+ in all my missions love the intel area i hope you ppl keep valerine in the end game of this video game bc i want that mascular dommy mommy to be piot than anything else

Game short

Hello! First of all, this game is amazing, expect a bit of lag through wine on mac, but its peak. It truly does remind of Armored Core 6. But I do have a few questions

Are you going to post a new demo or is this the last one.

Are you going to add more legs? Not just quad, maybe Bipedal or even tracks.

Some of improvements you can add to this game is maybe like, a new melee type, or dash. Also, when there is too many explosions, can you highlight the enemy or even highlight yourself so it's more visible, its like the smoke grenade. Also one fun idea you could do is double weapons, one side shotgun and the other side machine gun instead of missiles. Also, I just read the new report, does it mean Smoothbore cannon is gonna be faster in firerate, because it would make it 10x better. Ok thats all I have and btw, did I mention this game is peak?

I hope there will be more weapons that use two barrels, like the MK7 autocannon.

This is really cool, looking forward to how it develops

you should make a discord server and also the melee is nearly usless

Is there anywhere I can find the art you make for the game? Just generally all of it. You don't seem to have a social media presence outside of Itch.io, and I'd really love to use some of you art as references!

Since you are adding cool crabs, i can suggest adding them cool scorpion friends, who can shoot their stinger and regrow it to thoot again and are very greeen

I was expecting nothing but this game deliveries everything! Great graphics in pixel art, great gameplay but no history, just a background... seek and destroy!

Following the game, wishlist on steam and waiting new update!

Hello, how have holidays been? Hope good.

I'm here cuz i was wondering when will the next update be. (Yes, i need a new update cuz i have beaten every mission with every variability :,) )

Not to place more pressure on you. Only wondering.

Happy new year my friends, I'm still waiting for next update and keep working, love the game, best wish to you and have a good day!

Idea: add a drill unit(for the grenade slot) that barely does anything to enemies but specifies in breaking large amounts of buildings, landmines and sturdiest of walls

I just realised! I found another bug, when i was playind Mission7 with da flamethrower and accidentally destroyed a wall! it looks like any type of fire, that sits on the ground(like fire from the laser or flamethrower) can destroy mis7 walls!

Hey, The game crashes when i press deploy on the first mission. I have re-downloaded the game and started multiple new games, but this still happens. 

Crash Report

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I find myself checking this page almost every day because i want to see an update. Hope you are having a fantastic christmas and not reading this. Take your time making the game i'll still be here waiting.

i really liked this game, so much so i made an account on itch.io just to say how good of a game it is and how much i liked it. i play it every day, and i first saw a gameplay of it when i searched up the spider mech from patlabor on youtube a few months ago. i think what would be really cool is a jungle map with dense foliage covering where your enemies are and also maybe smaller but weaker allies, maybe slightly humanoid. the game is very good at this demo stage, but i notice the crawler's legs sink in the walls in the last map, but other than that the game is a masterpiece. also can you add a map where you fight boats? would be very nice to see. merry christmas!!! danke!!!

I keep playing and playing, and a certain point love becomes obsession, and man, my beat moment in this obsession is one shooting an entire reinforcement group with one fully charged railgun shot 😭, let's just say there were millions in damages from random crao falling out of the sky because one fker decided to get rid of that direction lmao. I am very much looking forward to a full release to this game. Keep up the good work man, also kindly add a howitzer to the demo of it's not too much to ask ;) 

See bugs? Kill bugs See enemy? Kill enemy See house? Round it with the earth. Peak

こんにちは！とても良いゲームです！製品版が完成したらぜひ日本語も対応してください！きっと日本に潜在的なファンがたくさんいるでしょう！

Hello! This is a great game! Please make it available in Japanese when the final version is complete! I'm sure there are many potential fans in Japan!

It's been a while since I've checked in on this, I hope all is well and happy holidays! I plan on resuming the model i was making soon too!

hey there :) i was wondering what program did you use to do the pixel art effect for the banner ? i really love the pixel art grading for the shadows and the whole thing looks amazing !

Just checking in to wish you Happy Holidays ! 

After more than a year(I think?) I still play this absolute masterpiece from time to time. This game's replayability is only matched by top-tier roguelike games. Please never abandon this game's development!

An absolute blast to play and a visual gem of a game! I adore (and have fallen in love with retrofuturistic/cassette cyberpunk aesthetics because of this project) the visual style of this game because of how seamless it is with 2D to give the impression of 3D (how this game is only sprites is beyond me, speaking of which, if you don't mind, what programs did you use for the art?). Also, Val's a cool character, but I gotta wonder if there's more to her than "killing is cool"! One thing I would certainly love to see in future progress logs (or maybe even as a standalone DLC when this project comes to Steam) are an artbook detailing the design process of the game, and maybe separately we could get a lore sheet to somewhat connect the dots and find out what the intel doesn't tell us about the world. I would really appreciate this too because I somewhat wanted to start work on a worldbuilding project involving mechs (called Powergears, taking inspiration from naming conventions), and I am one of those people who are really into the lore and world history of games. 

Some possible suggestions? (although they may not be the greatest ideas ever) Perhaps a cluster bomb or even a short-delay sticky grenade would be pretty neat. I do believe the former is possible since you would just tweak the smoke grenade to make a cluster bomb (possibly as a tertiary weapon? it would just be a single bomb that detonates into smaller explosions really), and the latter could be a nice finesse like the spider remote bomb. I think thermobaric weapons would be a neat addition (yet more anti-structure, but maybe also for organic enemies since they suck nearby oxygen?) Speaking of which: enemy infantry carrying MANPATs or even recoilless anti-tank rifles could be a decent challenge since they are somewhat difficult to hit and maybe they would come in transport helicopters/APCs. Perhaps to also deal with the difficulty of distinguishing the player and enemies with muted environments would be tiny accents on the vehicles. I believe it could also make sense with the different allegiances and affiliations too since we do see a lot of that distinguishing in warfare with friend-foe-identifiers. I would also add that with thermal smoke, enemies would probably keep shooting even if you aren't visible since it doesn't stop incoming projectiles, but breaking their line of sight is absolutely still invaluable.

Also, I did some reading and on the topic of a Discord server, while it may be a time-consuming task to moderate, maybe you would be able to take community moderators? I know having a few people across different time zones could really help with that. Of course, no pressure to create a server if you don't want to make one!

Anyway, I absolutely love this project, and I will keep tabs with great interest! I've already told a couple friends about this and decided to write this post after getting an S on every mission (took about 2 hours looking at the battle data, and maybe that just says something about me being bad at games). Keep up the great work, and I hope this game finds success! From this guy anyway: you're getting a supporter for life.

Hey man, me again...uh....I have only one question that are you planned to make more than one Pilots? 

A game that's this light yet feel rewarding is quite rare of itself, even more in 2025 where there's so much AAA games that's bland. I'd say that the game is quite optimized (i'm not sure how much optimized it is with my own rig),honestly i'm surprised that there's a lot of gun that i can choose from. That Glorious A-10's GAU 8A 30mm knockoff is shredding everything like butter with it's blazing fast fire rate (Although you'll find it'll drain ammo faster than anything else), the enemy posed no threat as long you're moving in the right dimension.

The enemy LOSAT carrier does spook me a few times with it's amount of damage it can deal, imagine you're focusing on a halo when suddenly it ambushed you. However from the gameplay wise, you're not really punished standing still in the game for a couple seconds. Which makes the stacked munition launcher (Practically the Metal Storm no?) is hilariously easy to clear the game, was thinking about how a certain mechanic like enemy artillery can hit you (With at least 3 layers of armor, but then, up to the dev) so you're forced to constantly move on a certain mission

With how the powerplant and armor kit absent and the dev are considering to remove this mechanic, i do have suggestion on filling the role. Albeit not very specific

Powerplant
- Overdrive! i am pretty sure you'll spam that sprint button the moment you see you're surrounded or even saw some far-off enemy, but have you ever thought that you wanted your cruiser to be "I wanted to tradeoff Overdrive for faster cruise speed so i can dodge the enemy" or, if a certain mission reward you with better coolant so you can overdrive far longer than what you're used to?

-Cruise speed, it's your main speed whenever you didn't overdrive it. I really think that it should be a focus on certain mission especially in the solid open field so you can avoid halo and LOSAT launcher that's definitely will see an increase of it's usage (Or is it?)

- Acceleration, of course the acceleration helped the mecha to get into your cruise and overdrive speed. but do think about it, what if there's an option to actually see a use of low cruise speed and high acceleration like swamp?

- With how weight worked, i do expect that the heavier you are on a certain terrain. You'll get either a buff or a nerf, let's take a look at the cruiser's legs. You see, something weird happened if you put a stick on a sand with that much weight on a cruiser. You get stuck easily and mud can slow you down, and or. heavier powerplant can take down a building more easily because of how much mass you slam on a building. 

But how about Armor Kit? it seems like it can be used on the cruiser in a different way, if it shrug smaller arm and still receiving no damage that would be boring. 

- Angled armor
Basically used to focus on deflection, however i see no stats on enemies that suggest if it have certain penetration rather than certain damage dealt, could this mean that the bullet itself have fixed stats in the future? we'll see it in the future

- Armor w/ CRAM
CRAM is practically used when every defense (In this case, your 20mm Minigun) failed to intercept a missile if you're surrounded or this could be your only defense to missile especially LOSAT, plenty of ammo and decent fire rate but lower than average accuracy seems to be viable

- Armor w/ APS
Lovely APS have been used for atleast a few decades to hard kill anything big and fast (Such as missiles), they can react fast but it should only cover a fair bit of angle and limited ammo because you can only carry so much APS even with the Cruiser. LOSAT doesn't have to be nerfed though, it's practically APFSDS disguised as missile. Still perfectly balanced so you can be surprised sometimes, although i see no reason (yet) to actually consider light or heavy armor since it will require another tweak

But even as i'm writing this, all of this is merely a suggestion and i could be wrong on a certain part as i'm not really an expert to this kind of technical jargon

lastly, the art feels quite neat i can stare it all day and still not bored of it. I admit that i'm not really good with spotting art but i can see how much hours did you put into the game you really loved with, thanks for getting us some good stuff for our time to play. Now if you'll excuse me from this holy long text that feels like even my own eyes sort of suffered a bit, i'll see this page on a bit

TLDR: game's good, needs afew tweaks here 'n there but overall is a good game.


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really fun game so far, needs afew fixes here 'n there but overall just some good bones for the game. funnily enough, the thing that hooked us for this game was the audio settings menu 'n the fact it had real-time visualizers to show you how loud or quiet that particular channel was. (and just the settings in general displaying what they're affecting, rather than just text giving you a vague idea of what it is changing)

it does have afew issues though, mostly with visual clarity/eyestrain problems with the player mech, mostly in more grey/beige environments (i.e. the first mission) since the colors blend together so well it becomes hard to distinguish where you are when you're stood still.

same with weapons being way too strong or way too weak for what you need them for. (though the progress report does show that's being fixed so this is really only a problem with the current version) but the grenades seem to be fitting into their own niche, though the incendiary, from our experiences, tends to out-perform the H.E. grenade more oft than naught.

the side-weapons are an interesting case, the landmine tends not to be useful since enemies just tend to.... not go over them, or otherwise miss them (somehow) making them more of a detriment to you if an enemy launches an explosive at you or hit a wall with an explosive that had the mine near it, especially if you'd only just placed the mine. the missiles tend to be fairly useful, though the rapid-fire ones are hit or miss with their usefulness.

the lil' bomb drone (my beloved), however, is basically always useful cuz holy shit that explosion radius 'n damage is nuts, to the point where its' limited range/fuse time hardly affects it 'n it just overshadows the other options, as we found ourselves using it just cuz it got all the jobs we wanted the missiles to do done way faster and with far more consistency and with far more safty.

music is currently only for the menu, bay, and mission select screen so missions tend to be very silent. which tends to make the places you fight feel very "dead" for lack of a better term, which if it's intentional then it sets the mood really well 'n adds a sense of tension. but if not then it makes things feel far too empty despite the fact that you've turned half a city block into swiss cheese via a minigun, attempting to kill some fodder and a heli at the same time.

the melee, though, in our experience, tends to go unused alot since getting close to enemies is really not good when they can just shred you to shit at close range with, y'know, their bullets. outside of maybe the worms/grubs since it seems to one-shot them but that's a gamble due to the fact they come in hordes. hopefully it finds a place in the kit in the future.

those issue aside, the game's got some really good bones for the gameplay, 'n the audio design's also really good, weapons 'n such all are very punchy or otherwise have a satisfying sound when in use (caseless explosive launcher specifically for us) and what music is there is really good too.

all 'n all it's just a really good game, minor issues here 'n there but that's to be expected. 'n we had a relatively fun time playing through what's available currently. damn good job so far, keep up the good work mate.

(apologies if this sounded overly negative, that was far from our intentions with this.)

Dropping in to say that this is such a passion project!

Game got recommended to me by a friend and saw them play it one time during game night!

Definitely hyping this to my circle!

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Gonna download the newest update, absolutely loving it so far! I am glad I paid for it, I might do it again next major update. I am really loving the art, and especially the vehicle, but one big thing is the pilot armor and helmet, its really awesome to see! I assume you based the helmet off something like the HGU-56? I own one and I have been super tempted to 3d scan it so I can print the shell of it and then make something like a VR visor for it like how it appears ingame. Cant forget the clamshell armor which makes me think of Hammers Slammers. Good shit man!

Guess who’s back... back again.

It’s me, I’m back.

If you don’t exactly remember who I am, I’m the person who complained about enemy visibility when in motion or something similar, I don't know man...

I’ve been silently watching this game's progress over the past few months on Bluesky and the like. Things seem to be going smoothly.

A couple of months back, I played the updated demo and DAMN! This shit is fire! The art style of this game REALLY grew on me, I’ve had a void for clunky, yet still “advanced” technology in media ever since I watched Cowboy Bebop for the 86,438th time. I really want to mention Signalis here, but that’s more tech stagnation, if anything.

Moving on to the efforts of my LAST comment, either my eyes improved or something changed with the game so I could actually see the enemies before they started slinging sabot rounds at me; both are positives.

If there are ever 3d models of most of the in-game vehicles/enemies (especially that dropship thing that drops you off on some of the levels), I would be more than happy to shittily recreate them in something like Stormworks or Plane Crazy. Seriously, they are WAY too cool not to replicate, and with the game being top-down-ish, it’s hard to get a good POV to work with.

I really liked fighting the MBTs ingame (K41A1, if I’m not mistaken), and it would be nice to see some more enemies like them later on down the line.

Cough cough space BTR-82, anyone? cough cough...

Uhhh... yeah, that’s probably it lol, once again hope to see more content from this project. Probably even more than last time, seeing as the other indie game I liked almost religiously got violently carpet bombed by both the community and the devs.

pls buff smartgun 

Well art directed, well performed, and it is fun too 10/10 I really look forward to this one :3

This game is amazing by all means. Love the art and aesthetics + the menu grabbed my sight really well. How did you make this game? You have a developer diary for this?

Thank you for the demo <3

This reminds me of a mech from 86, real fun

This is genuinely so beautiful and an absolute blast to play, will there be different paintjobs for your mech in the final game or other mech variations? That'd be cool, a 3 player co-op situation would be nice too but that's probably asking for too much. Sweet game overall