Mech Engineer is One of The Most Unique Games on Steam 

I could've figured that there only was one dev, unopposed in their madness to make the game as complicated and crazy as possible

27:00 Splat: There's a minigame to reduce repair costs by a little bit each time you run it. Procceeds to increase overall maintenance cost every time he does it 😅 From 202 to 223.5, 225 then 248. Honestly that looks like an emergency repair to partially repair or swap into less critical areas. It's fine but doesn't do what Splat said.

I'm pretty sure I pluralized the title of this game all the way through so my b. Everyone mock me plz.

27:45 [Splat spends a bunch of engineers to INCREASE the cost of repairs] "See what I did there? I halved the cost!"

My biggest takeaway from this is that Microprose still exists. Man that takes me way back.

This is the kind of game i love watching others play but hate playing myself.

I fucking love the UI and art! So chunky and beautiful in an apocalyptic industrial kinda way. The presentation is immaculate.

I really like how you're trying to break the game down and make it more digestible so that other people can jump in. Its pretty cool that you're doing that. Great video man!

27:28 Am I hallucinating, or is Splat just wrong, and playing around with Juryrigging increased his cost from 202 to 223?

I've played this game for almost a year now. The dev doesn't stop improving it adn adding new stuff. It's still in develpemnt so if it doesn't tickle you enought to play right now, wait a little for it to be improved.

Mad respect for your dedication in covering indie titles and spotlighting lesser known yet often well deserved games. And making those videos so consistently entertaining for years too.

What draws me into a game like this is that it has complexity and depth but can also run on lower end hardware. A winning combination at the end of the day. The stylization is a bonus.

Reminds me of another out-of-the-box game with analog aspects: High Fleet. I hope this becomes a trend!

This is the most riveting thing I’ve ever seen on this kind of bare bones display. It captures the feeling of desperate kinetic combat with single pixels. The rest of the game looks interesting. Create your mecha tailoring to each mission seems to be the hook of ii

Holy crap only small group games like this have this much detail I swear.what triple a game shows you how the weapons perform. Damn

I'm sorry for asking but can we please have the old titles back? The new titles may generate more clicks, thiugh i don't know if they actually do, but they don't actually tell you what the game is actually about and uses buzzwords like "unique game" instead, which youve used for perhaps 5 more games this month already, without me actually knowing what genre it is or what makes it unique Sorry for the complaint, i just really like your channel for finding new games ove never heard of, looking at the title to decide whether it's in a genre I'm looking for, and the new titles make that almost impossible. Bless, and have a mixe day

Seems like Mech Warrior, Mech Mechanic, Ostranauts & Motorsport Manager were thrown into a blender. Even though I expect to suck at this, like you mentioned it’s too tempting to pass up such a unique experience from the creative roiling pot of the indie game community! Felt the same way when I discovered & purchased Yomi Hustle earlier this year as well. There are just some games that you just want to sink your teeth into to play something original.

I'm all for tough games, but I just don't get why "roguelike" has become the go-to term for describing only half of what old-school roguelikes used to be. Back in the day, roguelikes were split between "hacklikes" and "bandlikes." The former forced you to face increasing difficulty levels, while the latter let you take things at your own speed. They were equally challenging, but the pacing was up to you, not forced upon you. From FTL onward , "roguelikes" seem to think that every turn should amp up the difficulty exponentially. But seriously, why? Can't a game be fun when you can go at your own pace? Remember how Diablo 2 was great even if you could go back and explore old areas whenever you felt like it?

"I effectively halved the cost" he said as the cost literally increased

Holy shit, when I was first getting into programming in primary school this is essentially the game I kept thinking about building and dreaming about. Modular groups of mechs you tinker with and swap bits out in, creating your own unit of custom mechs, each of them unique and crafted by you. I guess it was sort of a good idea if others converged on it too! Young me would be so excited!

love to know this game is still getting updates

Splattercat got prominently mentioned in the NoClip Documentary about Vampire Survivors that came out today.

if there was enough time in the day for video games like when I was a kid.... this would have HOURS

reading the reviews it does seem like a game with good potential. thought if the dev has a chance to make a mode that's a little more forgiving would help draw more people in. most negative points either had to do with how bad info is presented to issues late game with resources and repair costs

does it have meta progression? That sounds like a keeper to me if it does.

wow, you actually did that first mission, i lost all my current mechs and i'm currently rebuilding everything

I really like how you approach your presentations recently. Firstly you show us the game with a little bit of progress which is far better than the tutorial. Secondly you think about capturing us with a hook to show the games from their best side. Really good work! I'm happy to be subscribe to you!

Splat, you really earned your pay on this one. I know we all have different ideas of fun, but this one seems like work.

"Microprose wet dream" is now my fave game category.

you know what'd be interesting, is if there were a game where you were ONLY the engineering team. the mechs go out and they come back needing repairs. doing less repairs keeps your crew happy, doing more keeps your bosses happy. when you do less your team is generally more cooperative but the mechs might come back even more damaged than they wouldve been if they went out better repaired, but doing more might cause your team to get exhausted and start making mistakes, damaging the mechs. and then youre also in eastern europe so youre paid in peanuts and have to do a corruption to keep yourself above water, and if you do too much corruption the mechs youre responsible for start coming apart and you get fired, but do too little corruption and you starve to death or something.

It's a Microprose game, they made a quite a splash in gaming community with this kinda games. I hope Splat that you will cover future Microprose games like B17 bomber

I've got Duskers while it was on a giveaway on Epic, that game makes you *so* paranoid and dreadful of your surroundings. I loved every second of it.

Reminds me of that part of the Third? Matrix movie where the robots swarmed the Human mechs protecting the last human city. That part was so badass and this game kinda embodies that scene imo.

Big customizable mechs are cool. Simple as.

Once DORF releases you should cover it. It's quite the title

I love mech games, but this looks insane in scope. Good for the devs making something they love though. Seems cool. When you where showing off the repair 'mini game' you definitely made it worse. It went from 202 to repair to 256. Not sure you understand it (unless I read that wrong). lol

if soviet union was still existing and produce games this how it would look and feel. Im pretty much sure the DEV is from post soviet block. its the most interesting game I found this year. I fall in love how deep this simple on fist look game goes. I figured it out mostly. Its teeth breaking hard, sadistic even - but when you win it feels smart. I will maybe post a survival guide at steam. Some tips, rockets are anti armor, use slow mod on guns, first mech is one of the best, put max armor on/turn the shields on, dont touch water before you got underwater ammunition, run two/three or even four missions every move, always produce components and leave some in storage dont use it all, better engines=more weight capacity, you can destroy walls with splash damage (second rocket launcher)/ if you retreat it will stay destroyed, always run from gold sword , hunt red swords, put max armor on/turn the shields on, attack city nodes (contains parts and humans), dont use energy weapons until you get atomic reactor, destroy labyrinths with atomics.

When i start the game i cant select any missions, it always just says "Enemies are aproaching your city!" i get swarmed with an unbeatable horde of enemies and always loose 4 mechs. What? Aside from that its a cool concept but i feel like the dev intentionally made the game as unwieldy as possible for no reason at all. Things like making pilots undraggable for 5 seconds randomly in the menus because their status is "unknown", like... why?

"Mech engineers is one of those games that's comes along and is totally unique and nothing like anything out there.....seconds later.....this game is basically just like xcom"

I love this game, but the balance is really whack. Only a few setups are efficient enough to survive. And for a game that looks strategic, you end up locked in a single route of how you can setup your mechs and base to win. That is pretty bad.

I was searching for a comment to see if someone remember those series of game, but not found, this game makes me remember Armored Core Last Raven ( the one in ps2), what an incredible game, played for hours and only could pass like 5 missions when i was young

I cant beat the demo, I've watched your video twice fully. I only get 3 mechs when I play the demo. Great video and great game, but im not so great at it. I want to purchase the game but I wont if I cant even beat the demo.

I'll definitely give it a go. I had an idea seeing that the portraits flash when firing, and there are text boxes, etc.. Would love to see this game get modded deep into the pixel art pilot portrait. But you could map a ton of emotes to different situations. Rage, determination, exhaustion, grimmace, exhillaration, etc.. Could even do buffs or debuffs depending on damage output/damage taken and it's relation to crew morale. Pick up loot. Laughter, joy, elation, + Buff. Kill an enemy type + pilot buff, etc.. Take injury, lose a pilot. Negative buff and emotes. I invision more flesh to the pilot veterency system, either gained or inherent. Bad form to already have a suggestion before playing, and it's better to nail mechanics and playability first over fun imagery.. I just know I've played many more hrs of games for how immersed I could get painting my own narratives in between the fabric of the base story world. Had a capital time watching as always ol' bean. Top shelf Splat. 🧐🎩

No "What's up guys and gals? Welcome back to the nerd castle"? Sorry, cannot watch this, then ;(

If you don’t need accuracy on the missiles, shouldn't you reallocate the two points that are natively assigned to it?

I can see it now, the end game, it is going to be you being forced to sacrifice your best remaining crew member to protect the escape shuttle while it gets loaded and launched.

Great game, played it 1.5 years ago. Eventually ran into a repeated crash on the same level of progression into a campaign so I quit. Presumably fixed by now though.

The graphics look pretty hideous but the gameplay looks deep enough to be interesting. I'm torn on this one.

If I liked navigating menus, I'd be all over this game.

I've never been THIS early on a splatter vid 😮

Oh shit, i didnt expect that. I've played a few dozen hours. Game's incredible. The current iteration is staggeringly well put together for how much nonsense is going on. Also diegetic UIs are the best. We need more of them.

Right at about the 3 minutes mark I was thinking "Splat knows how to format a video well. Put the action upfront to keep our attention." And then you straight up mention trying to keep our attention and stop us clicking away. 10/10

Having grown up with Mechwarrior 3 in particular, love the concept. Could not enjoy playing for long without piloting an individual mech in first-person. Ever since those first missions with the bushwacker, I need to be a mech pilot. I'd love to add "engineer" to the scope of that job, but not at the expense of it.

I keep coming back to this game but I keep bouncing right off it. One of those games I wish I could enjoy but just doesn't click

The combat seems like 12 Sentinels, the setting like Muv Luv Alternative or Blue Gender, and the walking city like in Darling in the Franxx.

I. Fucking. Love. This. Game. I can also only play it one failed mission at a time 😅 Then I come back for more later

I thought it was going to be like car mechanic but you work on mechs. lol

It really feels like the dwarf fortress of mech xcom games. At least in terms of sheer complexity and burrowed systems.

Surprised to see this came out 2020. On my wishlist now, seems like a cool game, it got mixed negative review bombed cause no one understood how to play it seems. Unfortunate

Gameplay starts at 2:15 Looks pretty interesting

Man this went completely under my radar. Love Battletech/mechwarrior and xcom. Its right up my alley

I'd the best way to describe this game is a Gorman from Aliens simulator meets city resource management meets pimp my ride: mech edition.

The art for the pilots looks like its straight out of the original Populous :)

Love the concept, love games where you can shoot out a wall of lead, love the aesthetics, but it is a bit too complex for me :D

I tried this game a few years ago but basically immediately bounced off due to being so obtuse. I loved the concept but I wanted to wait on it to see if it would become more fleshed out. Looking a bit more like what I was hoping for, might give it another go

No disrespect in this but Microprose and Mechs... So Mech Commander just lower graphics... Always wondered why Microprose didn't UPGRADE Mech Commander for higher machines. It was a great game series.

Most population experts suggest that the minimum viable human population size is anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000, in order to maintain enough genetic diversity to allow the species to have a realistic chance of survival. Less than that, and you run a real risk of deleterious genes propagating throughout the entire population. It would be possible, with luck, to have a sustainable population start with smaller than that, but it wouldn't be wise to chance it. Having said that, humans are better at potentially practicing (and I hate to use this term), eugenics, and may be able to (as nasty as this sounds), "eliminate" or sterilise certain people who carried harmful genetic mutations - so, if you're willing to be extremely brutal and cold, you could possibly get away with a smaller population. That would, however, also entail the horror of forcing those with "good" genes to breed with those with "good" genes - which would be a very dark, horrid future. There's an interesting paper from Traill, Bradshaw and Brook, in "Biological Conservation" 2007, that goes over the previous estimates for many species, including mammals (it's also free online if you want to look it up). In short, it's always going to be an estimate - and these estimates run anywhere from the bare minimum of 50 (and that's providing everything works out perfectly and we also employ barbarous methods such as eugenics), to 10,000 to 100,000. The higher the number, the better chance, obviously. If I were planning a space colony, I wouldn't want to go any less than 10,000.

The only good bug is a dead bug.

Great breakdown. Game has some old school DOS vibes meets "Suits" the episode from Netflix's "Love, Death, and Robots" where a group of mech-driving farmers defend their homesteads from a giant alien, insectoid swarm. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l-3hdfRyAfM.html

This makes me hunger for an Tower Defence Mech Warrior FPS game omg. Imagine. Tyranids like aliens/bugs and mechs like the old MW games or MWO even, each round you place defences. Yeeeeesss as long as it does not look too blocky indie like, but like a spiritual nod to the Battletech universe.

So, it's Darling in the Franxx, from an Engineers perspective, without all the WhatTheFuckery of episode 18 on. I can dig it.

just got this(on sale) and hot damn is it complicated! REALLY enjoying it, but it's one of those games where you are kind of thrown to the wolves to figure things out. There is a manual, but its still a bit ruff and lacking, also doesn't explain everything. Don't go into it expecting not to have to restart after every one of your first 5 battles. Once you lose your first mechs its basically game over.

Waaaaaait the minute. Bug invasion, mech battle, earth is hopeless, leave earth. I heard this setting on other games. What is it again? Hmmmmmmm. BETA invasion, TSF mech battle, earth is hopeless, leave earth . . . Muv-Luv Alternative???

That's a hell of a geeky game. I mean, why anyone would play this? Why you all like to fap on numbers so much?! You're not playing, you micro-managing numbers here!

It's not a game, it is a simulation. They probably came back in time looking for "players" (commanders) who will win them the war in the future. Yeah....I think I'm onto something here.

i was excited after I saw this game here on this channel that I went and bought it. Now I regret it. Took more than 2 hours just to get used to it so I was passed the refund window which I also regret. The game is just terrible to actually play. The interface and customization is annoying as hell to go through every time for a roguelike experience and the way missions works you will have to refit your mechs every time to optimize them which you get punished through gameplay costing engineers and just the amount of real time it takes to do. The worst part in my mind is the the lack of control in combat for your mechs goes counter to the amount of control you have in customizing everything about them, your mechs will do stupid shit in combat no matter how you customize them. During combat there is also a lack of visual feedback needed to make informed decisions. missile badguys, rammers, turrets, bugs, they all look very similar when the game is not paused and they all require different responses to counter and many of your weapons particle effects will hide them from view. It's just not a very good game to play even if it is unique.

Ah, this is like Heavy Gear without the 3D FPS aspect. I was kinda hopeful this game would rip it off rather than do something new, haha.

Cool city menu has been improved since last time i played.

Ok so after 6 hours of trial and error i am finally able to actually play the game and its a slog. Reallu not fun and the dev seems to confuse tedium for difficulty. Theres nothing incredible difficult ablut the game and really the only reasons its a massive pain in the ass is the forced iron man mode Even if i die in the first mission to a legit problem or mistake (which is rare 9/10 times you will not know why you failed) i still have to restart the game and conplete all the early game set up with the first mechs before i get going again and that can take 20 minites on its own. Along with how little feedback you get, i still have no idea what is failing when i fail missions and i am usually wrecked by a new enemy i cant prepare for because a team wipe early game is pretty much game over so where am i supposed to run my trail and error? Even splat says access to the dev is what makes it easy for him to learn but even he isnt accurately describing whats going on here. Its a neat concept but just not a good game.

Man I remember a time we had user manuals in the game box. I would read the manual wile taking the train back home and then jump straight in. Have tutorials in games is very helpful but what I struggle with these days is I stop playing a game for a long while let's say Horizon Zero dawn, when I go back to play the game in forgfton all the buttons what the weapons do best ways too rake out the dinos. I really think big games RP, Open world games need to have a refresher mode or a way to do a tutorial without having to start a new game and go threw all the diolog and unescicary bits. I was the.pted to start a You tube change dedicated to just having quick start guide too get back in to games.

That repair system makes no sense. What do you mean the damage gets pushed from one part to all others? Do they just take the dent and pull it over to the other arm? It's nonsense thematically and from a gameplay perspective it also seems just a weird and opaque gamble to make. Did I actually end up paying less? Why does the damage to one part increase again while fixing others? This really is just quirky for the sake of it.

there's a free demo, I played it based off this video, the game is unforgivably hard The RNG aspect is partly how insubordinate your pilots are in battle, them not listening ends up getting them killed 90% of the time There's no take backs once you enter a mission and find the armour on the enemy is too tough to crack, there's a retreat button... that's assuming you're able to get to the extraction point through the enemy I had fun the first few times but the opening gets too repetitive with outfitting the mechs again for the first time every like 30 minutes If there was more save options I'd revisit the game, I understand that it's designed to be hard, but when you have such little intel on some missions it's frustrating to lose your crew due to under preparedness, under preparedness that you can't help because there's little to no usable resources of consequence given early on

Nice to see this has been updated since the first demo, I was worried it wouldn't get more polish than that. Go Microprose!

Definetely strong UFO 1 on the Amiga feeling. Just there is no floppy disk swap, no notice insert disk xy. 😅

from the Steam page: "Publisher MicroProse Software" Did I miss something?

What 'bugs' me is that during the battles, you can't order the mech team to form a battle formation. They're just scrambling around. Should be able to line em up and maybe do strategic reloading. Tell the devs

How many games I've vicariously tested through Splatter... zillions at this point! Zillions!

Welp thats massive disappointment, thumbnail looks way better than yhe actual game and i sjould have expected it considering its a wrird trend now.

Really dig style of gameplay... But man, the battle art/animations etc. I could never get into. I can deal with low poly etc, but not bloomy dots.

Konstantin Koshutin (Highfleet developer) posted about this game on his VK page, and said it's got divine spark)

Typical splattercat. The 'mini game' for repairing stuff, totally just makes it more expensive each time.

I find it funny that we're supposed to believe an entire planet worth of military assets lost the war when 4 measly robots can kill this stupidly high amount of enemies with not much effort...

I'm curious what he means by Micropose are guiding the process? Also is there any progression between runs or is it a full roguelike?

Why do you keep playing platformers and card games if you don't like em, it's not like you even feature them on the channel :P

I would suck a thousand million wieners to get this working with a mechwarrior title, like that game for beamNG that lets you create an engine and car and then import it into beamNG.

This game is frankly amazing, but id be lying if i said i have made any progress through the tech tree. I barely make it past day 3 because it os increasingly difficult to find an optimal build for different weapons. I find the challenge enjoyable.

Just so you know. "Bipedal means 2 legs.. that thing looked more octopedal...

It is a very interesting game. But why have this to be "rogue like"? I dislike games where I have to die hundreds of times...

Reactor Aux multipliers have to be slotted afterwards to have an effect, putting them in slot 1 does nothing

Looks like Chrome Shelled Regios or how that anime is called plus The Invincible.