Obliteracers
Award-winning party racing for up to 16 players! Race brutal-cute aliens on exotic planets, using weapon powerups and physics-based vehicles to annihilate your competition in frantic round-based combat. Features - Addictive racing mayhem for all ages featuring brutal-cute aliens, exotic locations and absurd weapon powerups - Squeeze 4 local players onto the same screen - Battle friends and family on the couch, compete against others online, or play career mode solo against punishing bots - Highly customizable party game modes with dozens of gameplay modifiers and presets for endless variety - Simple controls for newcomers, with advanced strategies for veteran players - Round-based combat ensures quick respawns and allows drop-in drop-out play
Steam User 78
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Obliteracers
Obliteracers is a racing, action, and possible friendship ruining title that is very fast-paced. I will add a TL;DR at the end.
Gameplay
Obliteracers can be classified as a racing title however it is more of a chaotic free-for-all than anything else. You get to choose from a selection of 16 racers in local or online modes and are limited to the character Sarge in the single player career mode. This is chaotic as you can play modes where you try to barely survive, kill everyone else or stay in front and let your ignorant competitors give you points by destroying each other. Obliteracers also has something which is absolutely amazing and that is 16 player local games. You can connect through gamepads, laptops and smart devices using them as controllers. If you die do not worry you can still lock on and fire rockets to help people or get revenge against the one person who dared go against you, then realize that next round he only wants to kill you and no longer cares about winning. You can also create games from a selection of 33 modifier, 3 presets for mixtures of modifiers, 3 saveable mixtures and 12 maps. Obliteracers is easy to pick up and play and even has a drop in and drop out feature, it’s easy to grasp and fun to master. It even has a preset if you are playing with friends who are new to the game to give losing players bonuses. Overall a great game to play with friends for sure and seems to hold a mixture of Wrecked Revenge Revisited and Mario Kart to create a fun and destructive game.
Graphics
I am a fan of Mario Kart and this games graphics remind me of it as they are cute, innocent,and colorful. That is until you collect your first weapon powerup and it becomes a deathmatch. The music is innocent and upbeat to help keep you in the mindset to have fun.
Pros/Cons
Pros
+ 16 local player games
+ Game involvement even after death
+ Fast-paced and quick rounds
+ Easy to learn
+ Great amount of replayability
+ Modifiers
Cons
- Small amount of players online currently
- Easy to get eliminated at the beginning (as much fun as it is to use rockets it’s also fun to race)
Suggestions
Here are some suggestions I feel would improve the game
- More racers
- More maps
- New methods to attack racers after death
Final Thoughts
Obliteracers is a great party game and I cannot wait to try it the next time me and my buddies hang out (there is usually around 8-12 of us so great to have up to 16 in the local game!). I was always a fan of Mario Kart but this is Mario Kart subtract the laps and add the battle mode into the racers. It is a mix of Mario Kart and Wrecked Revenge Revisited done amazingly well. Combining the best elements of both games to create a great party game to play and enjoy with friends or even play alone.
TL;DR
Obliteracers is a great party game and has up to 16 player local games. Mix some great elements on Mario Kart and Wrecked Revenge Revisited to be awarded with Obliteracers. Overall easy to pick up and has a great amount of replayability especially with 33 game modifiers.
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Steam User 34
I usually don't buy or play racing games, so I want everyone to understand exactly where I'm coming from when I write this review.
Obliteracers is great, hell, it's freaking fabulous.
I've been looking for a party game that I could play with my friends or with people online for a while now, and after playing this, I know I've found it. 16 player, drop-in drop-out multiplayer, scream at the monitor hilarious mayhem.
I love that smartphones can be used as controllers (more games need this, get on this other developers, license this tech for your games!) and it only takes an hour or two of practise to get a handle on it, (I recommend going 1-1 with a beginner bot on an Endurance style game using the "relative" controller layout until you get used to it).
The music suits the game perfectly, it's fun and upbeat, like the game. The community I played with on launch day were great, applauding rivals wins and laughing at the chaotic carnage.
And the game modifiers, wow, so many options. Try the combination of, no pickups, drift gift, pinball, ice skating and the floor is lava on Survival, most insane fun I've had in ages.
If you are looking for a party, or a kart style game, you should get this one, I highly doubt anyone would regret dropping the asking price (less than $20 aussie dollars) on this excellent game. This will be the game I gift to friends for their birthdays this year (if you are my friend, forget you just read that).
Would (and will) obliterate cute alien racers again. 10/10
Steam User 55
I've been waiting for this game since the Steam XMAS sale brought it to my attention, its pure unadulterated mayhem. You will be cursing out random cartoon drivers none stop.
This isn't a traditional racer, or much a racer at all to be honest. If you want Kart action this isn't your game, I repeat there is very little actual racing. What this is a FFA murderfest though that has driving as the medium. It's generally played as Deathmatch or Last Man Standing, where you keep respawning, you get kills/points by destroying and knocking people off the map or lasting the longest, there isn't a difference other than looks in the Racers, everybody goes the same speed turns the same etc etc.
If you want a game you can turn on and blow some steam this is great, I cant speak for how well the local multiplayer works, but I was playing with about 10 people online an hour after the launch, depsite having racers from Russia, Britain, Canada, Germany(host) and the USA, it was still respectably playable with 100-200 ping. Did I slide off the course a few times because of the lag the odd time? Yes. You forget about it 20 seconds later because another round starts and the game is just awesome.
Steam User 41
Obliteracers is a very fun, fast-paced racing game.
The game controls like most kart racing games, except you all share the same camera. Similarly to Speedrunners, if you fall out of the screen border, you die. However, you can also be killed by weaponry.
There are multiple weapons that allow for strategic play. Mines, slippery liquid, homing missiles and fire out of your sides.
You have the ability to bring up a shield at any time, that will negate any damage you take, but slow you down while you use it. You also have the option to hold up your shield as you drive into a weapon pickup, which will heal you, but in turn destroy the weapon. It's a nice trade-situation that allows you to choose.
My favourite game-modes are the ones where you don't respawn until the next round. This means the race gets more intense as you play. When you are dead, you have the option to skip to the next round if only bots are in play, or aim a crosshair and shoot at any racers you want. This allows you to kill someone who is doing better, to even the playing-field. The interesting thing is, if multiple players are dead, you all control the SAME crosshair. So you're all battling over who to kill, it's quite hilarious.
I should mention how great the multiplayer is by the way. You can play up to 16 players. Bots or humans. With a keyboard, controller or even a smartphone. The system to drop in a new player is quite seamless, and even allows for local & online play at the same time.
There's a career mode if you want to play through something alone, although there isn't really anything that interesting to it in my opinion. It's the same as versus mode but with a bit of funny text at the beginning, and it cycles through maps and game modes.
Something pretty fun is you can activate modifiers for races, which keeps things interesting like doing reversed controls, or the people losing are a bit faster.
Overall, it's a fun racing game with a very nice art style. I love the characters, the world and the gameplay is quite a blast if you have some people to play with!
Steam User 19
I finished the entire campaign and played several multiplayer matches with friends. The campaign is pretty much garbage. The sole redeeming factor of the campaign is that it introduces you to the modifiers that you can enable in custom races with friends, but you're far better off just playing the game with friends and experimenting for yourself. Finishing the campaign does not unlock any content or race modifiers.
This game gets pretty chaotic when you have the maximum player count racing (16 players!) You can sync tablets and phones to be used as controllers, so you could conceivably have a 16-player local competition if you wanted, or just play online.
Knockout is by far my favorite game mode. I found the game most enjoyable with about 8-10 racers, high speed, and some form of elimination. I didn't really like Endurance because it's too easy to lose track of where you are, but I like the elimination modes because they are short and make your focus on surviving a bit more important. Plus, it's fun to shoot the map's cannon at your friends after your'e dead!
The different game modes are:
Survival - be the last man alive
Knockout - earn points for eliminating other racers
Leader - earn points by being in the front of the pack
Endurance - endless race, race, earn points for eliminating other racers
I definitely DO NOT recommend this if you don't have a few friends to play it with. If you do have friends that will play this, then go ahead and give Obliteracers a shot. The more friends you have, the better this game becomes. Even with a large group of friends, however, the game will likely lose its appeal after a few hours. There are only so many game modifications you can enable and just a small number of tracks, so you'll soon run out of new options to experiment with.
Steam User 10
The party karting scene is back. Not that it went anywhere, bt PC options for such games have always been hit-or-miss. This is a definite hit. It's a blast! I haven't had the chance to try a local party yet but that's goign to happen soon.
The controlls are intuitive and easy. The play is frenetic and fun. The characters/vehicles are nonsensical and perfect The weapons are silly. The modifiers are hilarious. this is the perfect family party game or drinking party game, or party party game.
I run this game on my MSI GS70 Stealth (Nvidia 870M) with no issues at all on Very High settings. It's not super graphically intesive and it doesn't need to be. It's perfect, really. If you aren't getting this game, you are certainly making a mistake. I can't imagine this game not appealing to anyone.
Steam User 13
This game is a amazing mix of Mario Cart, Party games and complete carnage! This is such a amazing game and with multiplayer there is so much replayability. You can modify matches so try out al kinds of gamemodes. One problem i have is the lack of multiplayer games in my region. Overall amazing!