House Bob vs. The Replicons is an formidable 2D recreation about flying your spaceship onto a procedurally generated planet floor, gathering sources and tethering them to your ship, then blasting again into orbit to discover extra of outerspace. There is a new trailer for it under, but it surely’s not a brand new recreation. House Bob launched in 2018, bought poorly, after which its developer left the video games trade. That developer is returning now to take a second swing on the recreation and launched a significant replace earlier this week.
This is the brand new trailer:
I like that you’ve the bodily drag the sources you are gathering round after which pin them to your ship earlier than takeoff. The novelty of physics simulations by no means wore off for me.
The brand new replace, as described on Steam, overhauls House Bob’s fight, doubling the fireplace price of each gun, rising the variety of enemies, and revising their behaviour to make them extra attention-grabbing to keep away from or combat. There are additionally high quality of life enhancements to the sport’s digital camera, issue settings and extra. Truthfully, it reads like an inventory of (now resolved) explanation why House Bob did not get a lot discover again in 2018. (I am betting that the title did not assist, both.)
It did apparently get some discover, thoughts you, with a few pre-release GIFs of the sport raking in about half 1,000,000 views after being closely upvoted on Reddit. The replace and new trailer have had a reasonably good reception on Reddit, too, with the extra element that the developer had a coronary heart assault one week after the sport’s preliminary launch.
If exploring, bodily plundering, and preventing spiderbots appears like a lark, House Bob vs. The Replicons is at the moment 75% off on Steam, making it £2.74/€3.