A Space Marine Strategy RPG That Blew My Socks Off - ARCHREBEL Tactics 

I honestly didn't believe you would remember Archrebel after all this time! What has it been? 2 years? Thank you so much for taking it for a spin. Just one quick tip: make strategic use of power shots. They consume twice as much ammo but will mostly go through these critters' armor, as they grant a minimum damage equal to half the weapon's maximum damage. Again, thank you so much for playing it! :)

HQ: We need your squad to go in and rescue some civilians from swarms of highly durable ravenous aliens. Squad: Roger HQ, what is our loadout for this dangerous mission. HQ: Pistols and 12 bullets each, move out.

I love how the South Park reference just went straight over his head lol- fun looking game!

Wow, hearing someone mention Rebelstar and Laser Squad really caught me off guard..... instantly teleported me back to my youth.

Yes! It's been a pleasure to follow Archrebel's progress on Twitter for years, and this beautiful, fleshed-out tactics game is finally coming together! Can't wait for the full game.

observation. When you aim, it seams that you are aiming not at the creature, but at a specific point, and any shot that continue past the intended target can still hit the next one over. So it might be good to aim a little to the side, if there is another enemy on that side. That way the two enemies together occupy greater area of the cone, increasing overall hit chance.

The UI on the right hand side is REALLY crisp. Nice, slow animations, very clean lines.

Funny listening to Splatty narrating this adventure, he clearly was really into this! He does luv himself these gunz-games... The sound effects were very good in my opinion.

Been following this one on Twitter for a long, long time now and I'm so happy that there's a demo available! And even happier that you not only tried it out, but also really liked it :D Thanks for covering it on your channel!

I love following you for finding gems, but I gotta say, this was a blast to watch. Your wit, with your strategy really made the story better given it's stylistic constraints (which honestly are cool). Love your vids dude.

didn't expect to see psycho sid vicious in a space game

I appreciate someone is reviewing these games. Great content.

Splat you have become my fave YT game channel over the last week. Almost every game you cover looks interesting and I wish I had time to play them all!

Such a cool project, wonderful to see it finally reaches a bigger audience than our little gamedev circle 🙌

Definitely Laser Squad, which was "prequel" to XCom.

Wow, this was well done. Can't wait for it to come out. It really has that clean retro look.

I think that three-way fight at 18 minutes or so was a definite "everybody gangsta until the xenomorphs spit acid" moment. Basically zero seconds from fully-automatic-laser-death squad to screaming goo pile.

OMG it feels soo good to see the game review of a guy I am actively following on twitter! :D This game should be waaay more popular already!

The look of this game reminds me of playing "Sun Tzu's Art of War" on a computer made in 1981 - which I know, because the internal clock of the computer kept resetting to Jan 1, 1981, every time you turned it on - I was playing with in high school, back in 1998->2000. I couldn't get very far in the game, because there was no in-game tutorial, the manual for the game was nowhere to be seen, & the game - which was on a 5-1/4" floppy disk - was in real-time with no ability to issue commands while the game is paused. There also wasn't any way of telling what the game is even supposed to be about. So, the learning curve was steep, to say the least. But then, the original XCom's weren't much better. I remember playing the underwater one & not knowing how to even shoot the aliens. I even managed - somehow - to throw the weapon itself at the alien, which - as you might imagine - didn't do much damage at all. Kind of being triggered right now, not gonna lie.

Right away I can say that the ability to move as group out of combat (assuming out of combat happens often enough) is needed.

As Splat said, I really hope there is a way to move multiple units at once during travel mode cuz once you add extra guys, that looks really tedious. I'd almost rather have a "Set Formation" screen that pops up when a battle starts instead of moving each person individually during travel. All that said, I really love the look and style of this game!

"Laser squad" was selling point for me. Pause at 43 seconds and went to find game. Nice review :D

Nice to see Sid Vicious back on stage again... with his... 'er... pistol ;)

This game gives me warm memories. It needs more attention

Welp I didn't know this existed and love everything I've seen so far, which means spending more money at some point. Thanks a lot Splat. You know, I have five kids and still haven't really forgiven you for that vampire survivor thing and it's associated clones

Your initial description gave me an heart-attack .... ❤

Laser Squad! thats going back 30 years :)

Reminds me of Laser Sqaud :)

Oh my god! That font gave me a visceral blast of nostalgia. I agree, very Commodore 64.

Laser Squad? Thus I am summoned.

This is exactly the sort of game I love... I definitely can't wait to try the demo!

OMG this looks EXACTLY like REBELSTAR or LASERSQUAD on ZX from Julian Gollop, the father of Turn based tactics games... Wishlisting

Thank you splat! That went straight to the wishlist.

Everything you said in the intro had me hooked! I Loved laser squad as a kid. I just wish this was a little more graphically modern. Xenonauts is retro but still looks good.

Oh wow, this is nearly here now? I gotta get ready! Checklist. Spectrum 48k replica with rubber keys? Dodgy cassette player for the tape-based game load? Cheap desk, no chair, just sit on the bed? Coca-Cola and crisps and no thoughts whatsoever about arteries or diabetes? Many, many hours of free time after school, and no stress about work and responsibilities? Then I can truly relive the joy of playing Rebelstar 2 back in 1988!

24:35 "I'm not trying to be a liquid right now."

Thanks, Splatt!!

I love the starcraft type of music

Poor Kenny. He always gets the short end of the stick LOL

Formation on traveling mode is a must i think, if the dev can make different classes for the soldiers that you can like level them up to that would be cool, also make a spaceship hub kind of thing to pick missions and do research with stuff you grab on missions i think it would complement the game well

been following this game for a long time, dev is super cool

wishlisted, thanks splatter

Man, between this and Moonring we're eating really good off of these classic reimaginings.

This looks super fun!

That soundtrack. Amazing!

The "new" x-coms are actually pretty great. Especially if you mod them with Long War and Long War of The Chosen, and all the cosmetic mods.

This looks amazing. I love that there’s kind of a revival of the Commodore 64 aesthetic. Altho this looks a little more DOSSY? Kinda 256-color, 320x240? Even tho it looks like more color and more pixels, not that it matters.

Aww man. Wanted to watch this a bit longer. Looks fun and a call back to the early 90s.

to the wishlist!

Splatty, what kind of video will you do for your 1 millionth subscriber celebration? I think it would cool if you made another channel and you also reviewed TV shows or movies .

Really cool game. I like the graphics and the gameplay. The sounds are on top.

I really wish they'd make this demo publicly available, I'd love to test it.

Man of Culture 90s XCom

Wait, this is reincarnaction of Rebel Star from ZX Spectrum! Even names are correct.

make sure to check out pioneer space simulation as well

I've played a bit of XCOM, and then XCOM2 and Templar Battleforce. But open world? That's kinda interesting

Looks really cool.

I really get nostalgic Amiga 500 feel of this. Did the game come in a golden box with the letters TSR on it ?

love this game aesthetic

Unloading weapons and restacking mags would be a nice add to this.

Hey Splat, With your massive knowledge of games, do you know of Master Of Orion 2 spiritual successors? I can't find anything to scratch the itch but going back to the classic.

Damn the music in this is insane

"Rebelstar 2" today? А чего, великолепная была игра для своего времени.

excellent!

This game is OG X-Com. If you've never played the OG (EDIT: Sounds like you have), I recommend trying it with Open X-Com Extended and trying some of the incredible mods, like "The X-Com Files" which adds an absolutely incredible amount of content to the original game. You start two years early as an X-Files-like agency investigating strange happenings in the lead up to the invasion, and securing more funding and authority from the Council. You earn the right to be called X-Com then kick the crap out of the invaders... and so much more. If this game blew your socks off you should absolutely try it's better looking daddy.

you got me at space marine, btw will u try lost castle 2?

I am no good at games like this, but if it ends up on a platform like Steam, I will certainly do what I can to support the developer.

this game rmeinds me of a 2d version of battle isle 4: incubation which you can get off GOG in the battle isles pack. Great game. Will get this day one release.

thanks

visually this looks 100% like mech engineer

Ngl, him missing boxes makes me fume 😂

OMG it's RebelStar Raiders

Hey. they even took trooper names from Rebelstar. Neat.

ARCHREBEL... interesting! Demo it is!

engagement! get that $$$$

this is awesome

This is Rebelstar remake :)

Is fucking Laser Squad for commodore 64 :)

looks cool

Why do the units turn into circles when you're aiming a shot?

Splattercat ❤

Ultima 5 vibes visually!

Omg they killed Kenny! YOU BASTARDS, 😂😂😂

Poor Kenny 😢😢

Do I need VGA, or is EGA enough?

Rebelstar Raiders

So is this a rebelstar followup from the spectrum?

Is xcom for calculators

Flora reminds me of the REAL X-COM bases.

They even used the same names as the Julian Gollop games (Kurt Levine etc.) Anyone remember Leader Kremin? Or those annoying little Zeeker robots?

Looks like rebelstar on zx spectrum

Greetings world

Is this going to be available in mobile?

I dig it.

Omg they killed Kenny !

🖤

YI-GI-GI-GI-GI-GI-GIIIIII with the chainsword

*DEVELOPER* please put walk cycle animations in the little dudes. It will add livelyness and some pleasantry to the game. That is all.

comment for the comment god!

But why do your guys lose morale when enemy units die?