Very polished game. Improves teamwork. I played the game when it first submit during the Jam, and it seems it gets a lot of improvement since then. The aesthetics are astonishing, the game play was good. But while I am playing, I feelt that the game play was repetitive, maybe you could for each mission do just one room and make it bit harder and the player needs to think really carful about each move.

Overall the game was good. Nice job guys!

Blew my mind O_o honestly for a jam game made in a week, it's impressive it already has a lot of polish, you have a full upgrade system, save/load, mission select screen, multiple characters that all have a different feel. The game feels like a full complete one already so congrats for that alone !

Gameplay wise, i like how you made this simple to play where, even if it's turn based, you don't spend yout time navigating through menus all the time, you just bump into enemies, also it's a nice feature to have separated attacks from movement turns so that you can chain kills provided you have enough energy when next to an enemy, and last but not least the "tetris like" minigame of placing chips on the grid, super clever ! If i had to point one tiny issue it's just that when you upgrade its definitive unless you start a new save, having the option to replace chips could be a nice addition, but frankly it's already quite good as it is.

Artwork and music are super good, i like the story and the silly L337 SP34K names which seem fitting for robots XD

Can't say anything more really, good job to the whole team :)

Greatly polished game. The graphics and the audio are good. The characters name are funny F1ST0N, B3B3... ^^

Just, I didn't really like having to recharge every time at the beginning when it didn't seem needed, I understand that it is to introduce the mechanic though.

Good job!

Having multiple steps on charters before swapping is a smart way to expand the "rouglike" arrow-controls beyond a single avatar. Graphics and audio are both top notch. Actually having a save function in  jam game is an appreciated rarity.

I struggled a bit to guess who I was control moment; this lead to a number of  unintentional sidesteps back and forth. A bar on the left depicting turn order would therefore be highly appreciated.

Incredible game! All aspects are super polished for a game jam, especially the art and sound. The title screen gives an especially strong "wow" effect. The upgrade minigame is also a nice touch. I also love tactics game.

Even though it's awesome, I still think some details that could be improved.  I'll try to mention new things I haven't already seen in the comments :

- (Already mentioned by VikFro but its my major issue) the game is a too easy. So much that the upgrade system can be ignored all together without feeling you're missing on something. There is also a power imbalance between characters: S0R3114 can just slash through waves of enemies, while F1STON is stuck walking slowly, and the "specializations" of weaker character don't counterbalance this enough (eg I don't feel there is a strong use for pushing things).

- Starting out with all characters felt a little overwhelming. I feel like starting with a small mission with 2~3 characters would have been a good preliminary step.

- Give visual feedback why you can't do an action (e.g. shake the depleted movement / action / healing bars in the top UI corresponding to the action). It's would be especially useful in the first levels when you start to get the hang of the game, and can't exactly understand why you are stopped. I was confused by the healing charges bar for example.

- The upgrade mini-game is a little hidden. The "edit orphan layout" button could be (way) bigger, a different color / style, or something to make it stand out more.

- Small bugs: It seems the "damage boost" actually increase the healing charges, and M0TH3R has errors on her info panel can't be healed.

I'm being very picky because I believe its more useful feedback then just praise, but its truly very good, and I gave it a very high rating. ^^ I look forward to seeing your next games.

Seriously amazing job guys! I had such a blast playing! Phenomenal work! I really enjoyed how different each character played and felt. S0R3114 when UPGRIDed up was a force to be reckoned with... Really isn't much else to say other than just wow... Blown away.

Hey hey people! Congrats on the game, overall it’s one of the best I’ve tested (with no surprise given the team composition).

Theme is well respected, I like the humanization of the robots with their different family role and personality.

Quite original to see a tactical combat game, which is a genre I enjoy. FINALLY NOT A PLATFORMER! And also, it’s EASY to do the actions, you do not have to go through 52 menus every turn like in some very famous J-RPG series.

Like Zicman (the French guy who hanged around in Twitch chat) I was pretty amazed at the level of polish and length of the game, a quite original upgrade system on top of multiple levels. Cool that you managed to have 2 programmers collaborating well, it can be a challenge!

The biggest reproach I have is… Well the game wasn’t that fun for me. Like Willowblade repeated a few times, it was much too easy and I would prefer if I felt compelled to optimize the upgrades into builds. Also the few UX issues I pinpointed during the testing would really help with that.

I’ll end with a note that John is getting good at making music. Also the art style reminds me of F&F2, in slightly better? Bonus to the whole team for the effort of making all the assets and the cool shaders.

Congrats! Average rating should be like ~ 4.5

Nice game, I enjoyed it! I liked the idea of a little family of robots. 

I wish there was some kind of indication of which character you have selected. I could never remember which was which. Also, I don't know how the actions / heals filled up... I think the one with the wrench always had a full bar at the beginning of its turn, but the others never seemed to replenish after using them in a level. 

Hey,

nice little game you made, really like it. everything fitted nicely together. played and rated. please feel free to play and rate my game.

Wow ! The polish on this game is amazing ! And this title screen... Gosh !

The chip set screen was a bit confusing at first but I eventually figured it out.

Everyone else has said it, so you certainly know it -- so polished, very impressive, well done.

I've never really played this style of game, so it took quite a while to understand the dynamics. But that's on me. Once I "got it" it became a bit easier, but the tab issue which was mentioned combined with just trying to get out of the level once you're done is a bit frustrating.

Have you guys worked much together before? I'm going for a browse through your previous work to find out..

High rating from me, good luck!

Just like everyone is saying, superb level of polish here! Art, sound, design, all of it. I love tactics games, so this was right up my alley. :) I like that all the characters have their own specialties, but still have the ability to customize them some in a different way that most games that are just trying to copy FFT. Is there a way to move/remove upgrades once installed? I was trying to move S0HNs around but couldn't figure it out.

I'd echo what a couple other comments are saying with the tab button being a little cumbersome. I'm not sure what a good alternative would be though. I think the issue is that in most tactics games I would just select the spot I want to go to instead of tap tap tapping to move. Obviously with the speed boosts that skip spots it makes that a little difficult...

The audio is BANGING in this game (banging, in this case, meaning "really good"). I loved how it was like... a version of turn-based tactics type game but I didn't have to think too hard. There were no crazy, complex huds. I just ran into other characters and I figured out what each character did. Really cool game.

Have you considered letting the player just "exit" the level after they've cleared the enemies? Arguably, I might've not gotten far enough for that to matter :)

The pixel art is great, but I got bored after the first couple of missions.

Good job! The premise is amusing. On clicking new initially I waited a few seconds for the game to start. The UI design is otherwise really nice and polished.

I'm impressed by the gameplay. I really like the turn-based combat, especially with the different traits each character has, and well done on the AI! I did find that having to press tab each time out of combat was a little tedious, I'm not sure if there's a way around it.

That you actually implemented an interesting pickup and upgrade system on top of everything else was super impressive. Overall, very polished with actual depth to gameplay, and I can definitely see this game being expanded upon.

I was a little bit annoyed by the whole walking, press tab, walking... in the tutorial. But then I got to the first level and startet to understand what this is about...

The gameplay is crazy good. The healing and applying the processor upgrades, very impressive. Althoug the exact effects of the upgrades were a bit hard to understand for me.

The art and music are also amazing.

I couldn't get trough the door in the Operation UPGRID level, is this a bug or did I miss something? I played in the browser.

I think it's generally agreed on that is a game of remarkable polish, a lot of effort has clearly been put into the sound, the art, the UX and the AI. This doesnt play like a jam game at all, the team is clearly talented.

However, there are a few things. Firstly, as mentioned before having to keep pressing Tab and and waiting to go through the door after enemies were defeated was a struggle. I only played the first three levels but from what I played the  gameplay was quite repetitive and although the characters had different abilities I never felt the need to switch them up as the game didn't force me to. But I'm sure if you guys had more time to design the levels it would be great,

Crazy that this was made in 9 days. Very good, excellent art and music. Switching between the characters is cool, and I love the dialogue pop-ups. However, I would have really loved to have been able to move freely throughout levels once enemies were defeated. Having to press Tab and wait was kind of annoying. Also, I would have liked some larger areas in the first couple of levels - it felt really cramped with 5 characters to control. One more small thing is the enemies health color is the same as the players, which made it hard for me to distinguish between them when they overlap sometimes.

Overall I thought that it fit the theme well, my issues with the game are not huge and some people might not care about them. My only real problem was that I couldn't advance past level 3 - after beating the 3rd mission, it brought me back to the title and the 4th one was still locked.