Attack of the Earthlings

This is an entertaining turn-based tactics game, where you play the role of a xenomorph whose planet has been invaded by pesky humans. Killing and eating humans provides biomass that you use to create additional units. The somewhat ghastly premise is balanced by the rather silly villains and humorous scripted events.

The game has seven maps, each of which provides a slightly different challenge. It's not a very long game (~9 hours for a careful playthrough that hit all the secondary objectives), and replayability is low unless you go achievement-hunting, but it's worth buying at the right price point.

Charming and funny. Don't pay over £/$10 (ideally 5), as it's just a REALLY simple turn-based strategy game with some funny humour in it. I laughed quite a few times. It's not deep enough to play over and over again, but a good intro to the genre.

A fun XCOM-style game where you're leading a totally not Predalien through a corporation's extraterrestrial mining drill/facility that is in no way comparable to Weyland-Yutani, with gut-wrenching team-building in a very literal sense. My only complaint is that it's a bit short but from another perspective it's a solid, sleek package.

The short: Very fun and very funny, but not very long.
The long: This game is quite interesting. I have always liked playing games from the 'bad guys' perspective, or rather the 'non-human' perspective, for in this game. Because you technically aren't the bad guys. Yes, you do go around killing humans, some of which are kinda innocent, but they came to your planet to mine every resource and kill everything they can get their hands on to begin with. The humans in this are comically evil, and comically dumb. I was actually chuckling at several parts in the game. The writing is simple, but pretty good and decently funny. The story line is decent too.
The game play is also rather simple. You only have your starting Queen alien, and from there you make basic drones which can evolve into three different specialist aliens. The more humans you kill, the more biomass you collect, and thus the more aliens you get. You can have an even faster, sneakier drone/assassin, a ranged disruption unit, and a big slow tank creature. Every situation in the game calls for one of these units. Sometimes you can finish a level using only one or two types, other times you need to use them all, and their unlock-able abilities. As you finish each mission you get upgrade points depending on how many humans you eliminated, and how fast you were.
I don't really like that in my stealth turn based combat games. Being forced to go quickly, that is. It didn't work for me with XCom 2, and it doesn't really work here. For XCom 2 it literally ruined the game for me, but not here as it is optional. I can see how they would add it in as a factor to maybe get more playtime/more replay value out of the game, but in the end it just had me rushing through levels to try and max out unit level up biomass. I think more levels, possibly larger levels, with more 'puzzles' to solve would have been much more preferable; then maybe an alternate 'speed run mode' unlocking at the end when you beat the game?
Oh well, like I said, the game is fun and funny. The voice acting is great. It plays pretty simply and rather well. The super streamlined UI is nice, but it and the overall graphics for the game kind of make it look like something you would end up playing on your phone or a tablet. It has a charm to it, but, a sort of cheap charm? Anywho, I didn't get all that much playtime out of the game. It was fun, but not quite $17 CAD fun. I would recommend it, but only if you get it on a decent sale.

This is a relatively short Xcom-style game played from the perspective of an insect-like alien species. The writing is funny, though often predictable, and the missions are just different enough to sustain the fun factor for the game's duration. The 7 missions will take most players 8-10 hours to complete. I felt no desire to continue playing the game after beating it, but since I paid $3 for this game, I think it was well worth what I spent.

A very fun & cute game. Took me about 7.7 hours to beat, and I had a lot of fun doing it. A couple missions got frustrating due to a lack of a quick save/quick load feature. Which the game BADLY needs. But despite that each mission has fun little combat puzzles to figure out and work through. Nothing was too complex and after a few reloads here and there you can usually get your way through nearly every level.
One negative I would give to the game is that you only really need 1 of your pets. The Stalker does everything you need. Especially once ranked up. With the exception of a single unit type that requires the ranged pet, it kills your guys when you get close, I never found a need or use for the other pets. The stalker did it all and nothing else could come close.
The game was funny too. Made me chuckle several times. The comedy is very inspired by the "Mars Attacks!" movie and it reminded my of the "Evil Genius" games when it came to animations and art style.
Solid, fun, quick game. No real replay value. Once you play through it your done. No reason to replay the missions unless you want some achievement you might have missed.
4/5 Great weekend game.

Changing my original review. The game is fun, and it is funny, and if you can get it at a steep discount, it's worth it. However, it also has some shortcomings:
1. Desperately needs a minimap.
2. Edge scrolling would be nice.
3. Graying out abilities that can't currently be used would be helpful.
4. Tell the player ahead of time how many turns are "par" for that level, since resources depend upon level score.
5. I'm sure there are some others I can't think of at them moment.
My thumb's up is contingent upon the steep discount. At full price or even half price, it's a thumb's down because there are less frustrating games to be had at that price.