Oh no! You came to work 0.03 seconds late. Now all the good, safe jobs are taken. Now you, a lowly cleaning robot, is tasked to collect precious materials from various worlds in a sector that is about to go Kaboom! And if that isn’t enough, these planets are crawling with dangerous rogue robots that are out to destroy everything in their path. But not all is bad, you happen to convince some fleshy meatbags to do a lot of the hard labor for you. Just be careful not to let any harm come to them. The Boss’ wife thinks they are cute.

Freaking Meatbags is a real-time strategy game that combines base building, tower defense, work management, and some shooter-like action. Most levels in the game start out with you landing on a planet with a select few meatbags you chose to take with you from previous worlds. Given limited space on your ship you are only allowed to take a small number, the rest you just leave on a planet when you are done with it. Now it is your job to manage where the meatbags go and what they do. Most of the time you will have them just collecting materials, sometimes you have them explore secrets to find useful items, and other times you may just have them put into a machine which mixes their DNA to form another meatbag with their combined stats.

As they continue to work and work they gain experiences and increase stats which make them work harder and faster. Of course you can also alter them a bit to make them better if you think they are too lazy. One of the first things you can do is implant a brain slug to make them less likely to slack off and more likely to work harder. Another thing you can do is as you travel from planet to planet you sometimes come across other aliens. Some of them have laser eyes, some of them explode on contact, and some even have rocket launchers. Somehow you convince these aliens to help you and if you combine their DNA with your meatbags, you can create more useful meatbags that can work harder as well as protect the base and themselves. But remember you can only take a few of the meatbags with you to the next planet so choose wisely.

Now, while your meatbags get to work, you have to build up your base and your defenses. As the game progresses and you collect money you will be able to unlock some useful structures that you can build as you collect the resources for them. Some of these items are not available in the game as of yet but will be put in soon. These items include items that help your base run better like: jump pads to help the meatbags move faster, a mining drill, and barracks to hold more meatbags. There are also items which can be used to defend your base from the rogue robots like: turrets, rocket launchers, and metal barricades which all can be upgraded as you progress. You will need to be careful with how you use your resources, for when night comes, the waves of enemies come as well. You don’t want to be caught without some sort of defense or your base, you, or even your meatbags can be in trouble.

This is where the real time strategy comes into play. Sometimes there can be multiple places the rogue robots can come from. Once they show you where, you need to block off the area and place weapons to try to keep them back and destroy them before they reach your base. On some planets it is straight forward, but others give you limited space to build. Most structures cannot be built on water or certain terrains. Luckily as you progress you would hopefully create some meatbags that can help defend your base.

In between some of these normal levels of base defense and material collecting are levels where you are beamed down to a planet where there is no place to build a base. In these cases you are tasked with finding stray materials on your own as well as destroy all the rogue robots that seem to plague these planets. Luckily you are able to find some turret guns which follow you around that you can use to defend yourself. These guns are powerful but can’t fully protect you for if a robot comes to close to you it explodes and damages you a lot.

So far this game has been quite fun. It is a nice twist on the tower defense genre that also throws in some action in there as well. This game is still in Early Access Beta, so some features are not yet implemented. They seem to be thinking of adding another mode or two as well as new items and DNA mixes. All in all I can’t wait to see where this game goes in the near future and can’t wait to play more of it.

Early Access Available for PC HERE

*Note: Remember this game is still in development so not all features are in the game yet. Remember Beta is Beta.

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