Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road Mini-Review: An Excellent Twist on the Survivors Genre – Green Man Gaming Blog

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Vampire Survivors, and lots of of the video games impressed by it, can really feel a bit of bit—effectively—acquainted. So it’s all the time refreshing when one thing comes alongside that desires to place a real spin on the method. Megabonk was considered one of the greatest examples of this final yr, not solely introducing a 3rd dimension but in addition including leaderboards to essentially get you hooked. One sport you’ll have missed, although, is Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road.

Monsters Are Coming! has you defending transferring bastions as they make their means towards an enormous metropolis often known as the Ark. This provides you a particular space to defend, reasonably than merely roaming round getting stronger, and means you will have a metropolis to improve alongside the means. As you achieve expertise, you don’t degree up – your metropolis does. With every improve, you get to decide on a brand new tower or useful resource block and place it someplace on your ever-rising, rolling dwelling. Location is every little thing, and pairing particular blocks collectively may end up in some large energy boosts.

Whereas all of that is occurring, you’ll be working round not solely combating off monsters your self, but in addition hacking by way of obstacles, mining for gold and stone, and chopping down bushes for wooden. Gold permits you to purchase upgrades, stone permits you to heal your metropolis, and wooden will increase your towers’ assault pace. It’s a sensible twist on useful resource gathering that retains you continually on the transfer, all the time attempting to remain productive as an alternative of standing nonetheless.

The tip result’s that Monsters Are Coming! feels much more hands-on than many others in the style, with no AFK endgame in sight. You unlock new options after every run, and there are some genuinely robust encounters alongside the means. It’s an excellent addition to the style, and a refreshingly lively one at that.

Jason Coles

Jason likes to focus on roguelikes and co-op video games; in a dream world he’d make a dwelling writing about Darkish Souls. In addition to being a author he additionally does private coaching and accounting and may often be seen on different individuals’s streams. Being an enormous fan of fluffy issues means he has two cats, each of whom refuse to let him sleep, however no less than they’re cute.