Attack of the Earthlings
Attack of the Earthlings combines turn-based combat and stealth in a dark comedic single player campaign, where you the player, take control of the native alien race to defend your home world from the invading humans. Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional energy corporation, are hell-bent on harvesting the known universe for energy and will drill anything in its incessant quest to line its pockets with profit. However, their latest foray into energy exploration on Planet X13, has placed them into a bit of a pickle. The Swarmers, the native insectoid species, have another idea – to eat all the workers! You take control of the Swarmers, a highly aggressive insectoid species, who must convert human flesh into alien muscle, upgrade their units and even find the time to gatecrash a birthday party.
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
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.
Steam User 2
Short but Enjoyable Stealth-Tactics Game
The game is more of a puzzle game than a tactical game, because of turn limitations (related to bonus score and achievements) that often force you to finish missions in a certain way. But of course you can ignore those achievements and play game as a regular tactical stealth game. The game has some tactical depth as you can upgrade your Grunts to three different types of units, each with various skills and upgrades, although the stalker is the most crucial due to its high damage from the back ignoring shield and ability to move through vents. However, due to enemy variations, you'd need to use all types of units at some point.
It is fun trying out different strategies and while the turn limitations sometimes cause issues, the challenge mostly increases the enjoyment of the game, especially because the game allows saving at any point, which limits frustrations when you need to check paths of enemies and such.
The game is not very long, and only has seven levels, each of which can usually be finished under an hour. The challenges add a bit more gameplay. Overall had fun playing it.
The only negative thing I have to say about the game is that you cannot skip or speed up enemy turns, and have to wait as the camera switches to each enemy within view as they slowly take their turns. I'd say I've spent about one-third of my gameplay time on that only, especially in the final level, where the boss-mech is always in view.
Steam User 0
this game is one of those special games. with just a little bit of extra effort and the proper advertising, this is the kind of game that could make XCOM like games to a general audience. this game isnt good, its great.
2 things hold it back from being its best. short campaign, no player made content (or multiplayer). thus the people who are super into this genre already (and who would be its biggest champions), have little reason to give this game a second look after credits.
this game is entirely tactical, easy to pick up, has a good tutorial (that barely feels like one), has a very reasonable skill floor, and really lets you push your skill limits (with points for bragginging rights).
this game is for everyone, like ACTUALLY everyone. your grandma could probably play this, so mind if she doesnt mind a bit of dark/violent comedy (its tone is fairly light conisdering its subject matter).
shame its current review count seems to indicate that only mostly the people heavily into this genre are playing this game.
seriously, give it a shot
Steam User 0
This is a pretty straight forward turn-based, squad on a grid, tactics game. It wasn't difficult, but quite enjoyable. Some may not like the silly humor, but I laughed here and there. The main appeal though is for sure getting to be the aliens killing the corporate mining hoomans! Haha!
You are the matriarch alien to start each level, she eats people and you produce a choice of 3 alien types on your team who then attack and consume more and so forth. There are a few upgrades to buy between levels and then it's over.
All in all, light, entertaining, play-as-the-"villain" tactics which I enjoyed. I imagine I will play through it again for fun sometime, but I don't see much draw for replayability.
Steam User 0
the story is good.
the jokes are funny.
the swarmers look cool.
music is perfect for this type of art style.
down sides are since it's a turn based game, there are moments where it feels like it's slugging along waiting for the earthlings to take their turn, but thats to be expected.
Steam User 0
Just a silly little game. It's pretty easy, don't expect much from it, but it's fun for what it is.
Steam User 0
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.