One of my all time favorites, no doubt 'bout it! Haven't played it in a bit, getting back to it and I realize what I've been missing. A great action/tower defense game. Although, the player base is kinda dead, real shame. But if you've got some friends (you do have friends right..?) get them together and hop into an online match. Its that simple foo!

But for-real, this game is def worth the few $ it costs, and the developers (based off their interaction on the forums) are real peeps, support em!

In my opinion, Cubemen is a ludicrously underrated game. It is incredibly simple in concept but it is executed incredibly well making it a huge amount of fun, the really simple but highly polished graphics also give this game a great charm to it.

Cubemen is a blend of Tower Defense and Real Time Strategy, something that can be very difficult to balance but Cubemen does it relatively well. There are a nice variety of units to chose from and an eclectic selection of official & community-made maps that give this game a lot of playability in both single and multiplayer games, this is a great game to play either alone or with friends.
Another thing that I love about Cubemen along with it's simplistic but great graphics is the brilliant soundtrack, it may be minimal in variety and some tracks sound like remixes of others but there are some really good pieces that fit perfectly into the games art style.

The hardest thing to achieve in any Strategy or Tower Defense game is balance, and even though Cubemen does it fairly well, it also has some unfortunate flaws; they aren't necessarily global flaws as the problems only seem to occur on certain maps, but the issue is still there. This is the fact that there is one particular strategy that works 95% of the time said maps, mainly some of the earlier ones but is also prominent on the later/more advanced maps too. If you rush the enemy spawning towers with basic infantry early on, it can be incredibly easy to dominate the rest of the game by pumping more and more infantry to that location. Like I said, this doesn't happen on all maps, just a handful, it is also my only real problem with this game.
Another flaw is that some infantry can feel fairly redundant such as Freds or Sids whereas other infantry like Grills, Flints and Rickys can dominate the grid most of the time in large numbers. This is again the balancing issue that lurks in these kind of games, it's a very difficult thing to overcome but non-the-less, it is nice to have a selection of units to chose from, especially since it doesn't clog up the interface and use minimal space.

So as this game is fairly cheap and is practically given away during sales, I would suggest trying it out if you're a fan of Tower Defense or RTS games. I believe some of the reviews that this game has recieved are relatively harsh and undeserved, sure, it has some issues but what game doesn't? This game and it's sequel are a lot of fun so if it's going for cheap or is in a bundle, I highly recommend it! I'm looking at you, my Command & Conquer buddies.

Also, for the record, those of you that call this game a "Minecraft ripoff" are clearly morons.

Had a bit of fun with this.
But its just another tower defence game.
6/10

I got this in the Humble Bundle and thank GOD I didnt pay full price for this.

The game just falls into repetition after repetition, all three game types are the same, but with more people and different maps, that is literally it.

The supposed "open endedness" of the game is one of its main downfalls, since instead of the standard tower defense multiplayer formula "Here is your end, you cant place anything in the other players end, but theres a no mans land thats all yours if you can fight for it" the game does this:

You can place Units anywhere! (that we've set) even next to the enemy spawn point!

Thats it, and that makes it frustrating, it takes all the fun out of the usual cunning and strategy of a game like this, and instead the only way to win is just spawncamping/killing

Thats it, thats the only way to win and the AI knows it, as thats the only tactic I've ever seen it employ.

This is made even worse by the fact that when a Unit is going towards a spot, no-one else on any team can go to that spot, even if they would beat them to the spot by miles, making defense of your base harder, and spawn killing way easier.

I LIKE tower defense games and I LIKE RTS games... but I simply dont like this as everything is the same, and the only way to win is to be totally unfair.

To top it all off the AI is so incompetent it hurts, as in it hurts my head from how many times I smashed my head into my desk after seeing my units attacking someone who they were missing continuously, who was also very far away, and wasnt even attacking me, instead of the units right next to him that were actively shooting him!

To end this review professionally: The AI is rubbish, the game is boring and repetitive, and the only way to win is by being a complete c*nt, DO NOT buy this game.

Cubemen is a decent RTS/Tower Defense game that does well with what little it contains. This is a great little game and well worth the couple bucks it costs.

It’s not a *bad* game. The concept is novel, the graphics feel pretty polished, and the team obviously cared about the game they were building.

But the sign of a great strategy game is balance. Unfortunately Cubemen lacked this in 2 important ways.

1) The strategy to beating every Defense level is the same. I thought the game was extremely hard at first when I was trying to sit back and defend, but then I discovered that if you rush the spawn point with the 2 basic units, you can win nearly every Defense level. A few of the 35 levels did require some thought, particularly the last one, but really only in the early game. But even these ultimately came down to the same strategy, it was just harder to do immediately: surround the spawn point, then wait for the win.

2) The wide variety of units doesn’t really matter. This piggybacks off #1. You can win every level (except the last one) with just Grills and Flamers (maybe even just Grills). If you have enough to build Rickies, you probably are going to win anyway. This made the game fairly one-dimensional.
I think this aspect actually drives people away from the multiplayer; they get a sour first impression and can’t get over it.

Best of luck to the team in their future projects, at any rate! I know there has since been a sequel; I may give that a spin to see if some of these things are addressed there.

This game is great! Wow! I mean I would have been happy with just cubes, but cubes and men?! Wow! What a combination for great fun! Wow!

Gets boring fast.

Its like maplestory....but with men!!!(and cubes)

dobra giera

-Got on sale
-Sent my army
-Army got dominated
-Ded
-10/10

This game is great! Its a fun tower defence and rts. It is nothing like minecraft like youd probally expect. It is its own kind. 7/10

I had a blast playing this, it was a blast as it blew up my windows 98.

Got this to play with my cousin, lasted 10 minutes.
Maybe it's fun? I don't know I don't remember.
2/10

Very addicting and lots of fun cant stop playing it.

nothing makes u feel more relaxingly powerful than controlling a group of cubes on cubes that shoots cubey things and kills pubes

A epic combo of RTS games and tower defense games, really fun to mess around with. Sadly, nobody is usually on multiplayer, but still really fun.

I'd reccomend this to people who like RTS games OR tower defense games.

Cubemen was a strange experience for me. Somehow I had gotten myself a little excited about this game, not sure why, it didn't exactly have much of a hype going for it. But there I was, actually looking forward to this game. And boy was I disappointed.

Cubemen is a Tower Defense game. You place your towers, or cubemen on the map and move them around as necessary to shoot the enemies who will come at you from a multitude of spawnpoints on the map. They use a variety of weapons who's damage potential, type of damage and accuracy varies decently. Unfortunately several easy strategies exist to completely overpower the enemy early and take command of the game to the point where any challenge disappears out the window.

The random accuracy does provide some problems though as an early rush strategy that sometimes wins you the map with no casualties will other times make you lose without killing a single enemy. This randomness, combined with the reliability of camping the enemy spawns makes the strategy very shallow. You never have to spend much time contemplating unit placement or even which units to purchase beyond the first 2 minutes of a map.

The problem is that Cubemen is a very, very simple game. It'll take you five minutes to learn how to play it and ten to master it completely. The economy questions are virtually nonexistent, all enemies and maps can be met with the same strategies and the is virtually no challenge to be found in the game.

Despite the multi-player being cross-platform with mobile devices it is almost completely dead which is probably not a bad thing, considering the broken balance.

It is a game that gives you no reason to continue playing once you've done the first 30 minutes. Only the achievements exist to keep you playing but even that is just a mindless grind.

Cubemen is a fan tactical stratergy game which is highly addictive and simple to play. I reccomend this to anyone looking foor a good startergy game

A fun little game that you can spend time trying to beat your friend's score with. The stategy element involves buying block people which represent different classes like grunts with rifles, flame-throwers, morters, grenaders, lasers, snipers and so on. The idea of the game is to win at a war of attrition by beating the enemy's waves in a tower-defence kind of way.

It's a fun little game and fun to compare your score to other's online but beyond that I don't know much.