Absolute ♥♥♥♥ game... but I really didn't know what else I expected

My main problem with this piece of code is, that you cannot even steer your stupid robot... he auto-runs to the right, you can only use a jetpack, that runs out of fuel after a short time and fire your unlimited barrage of slow flying rockets...

If you touch a cloud you die, logs fall out of thin air and kill you, floating island suddenly collapse and kill you, all forcing you to restart at the latest pink star checkpoint... so annoying and repetetive.

I thought I was buying a shoot em up, but this is just a hard coded quick time event cinematic, stay away...

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

At first i thought it's fun.
But it's not.
First of all, the game supports only low resolutions so it won't cover the whole screen.
After that you enter the game and you have Z and X.
In Z you go up and in X you fire a rocket.
It's like falppy bird but with rockets and destroying things.
And flappy bird is the worst game I've ever seen, so this is bad as well.
You always move forward you can't stop and you can crash into things and you will live but if you touch the clouds or if you skip a creature you couldn't kill you lose points.
The point is there are creatures in places you can't reach or in level 2 there are a lot of them so you miss a lot of them.
The first level was pretty hard and i dropped after that because the game wasn't fun at all.
It's more suited for mobile game than a game for the computer.

This is a runner game made for mobile devices. What I find strage though is that they didn't change/optimize anything for pc, I won't go into details but the menus are poorly exicuted.
After watching a shrot movie, level 1 drops you into the game with no instructions. I pressed all the keys and found "U" and "e" brings up a basic menu, "r" restarts the level, "space" and "x" ues a jetpack and "Z" fires a missile. I didn't even know he could fire until 15 min in and there's no options screen so you can't look over the controls. There's a startup popup box where you can change the controls... In theory. It doesn't actually work, and the keys I described don't show up as bound to anything.
As a runner game, the screen will always scroll you right. The gameplay is nice, the levels are well put toghether and while the artwork is appealing, it isn't very defined. I keep crashing into objects look like they're part of the background. It's also not clear which objects damage you, which ones you can blow up and what powerups do. The biggest problem I have is that my jetpack keeps stalling. At first I thought it runs out of fuel but now I think it has to do with how high you are on the screen. An indicator of when I can and can't use it would be nice. This game gives you no information.
Every now and then you will get to ditch the jetpack robot and use bigger ships, I found these levels the best. There are 2 chapters with 10 levels each and 4 bonus levels in the game.
It is playable and can be fun, but understand the production values are low and no one bothered to put on much polish. While I can't find the mobile version, this is a standard android game. On the android marketplace, the first chapter would typically be free and the rest would be $1. Or free all the way with ads maybe.

RobotEx is a mixed bag when it comes to reviewing. It's not an amazing game, but it's not a bad game either.

This is an automatic side-scroller with very little controls, as it was obviously made primarily for a portable platform. Pressing the spacebar makes you go up, letting go makes you go down. The only other key is P, which fires your forward rockets. When you first start the game you're given a controller config screen, which seems to be a bug as the controls are hard-coded into the game so the config screen is somewhat pointless. Once you figure out that there are only 2 hard-coded buttons your control issues come to an end. (unless you're one of those spoiled individuals who has to have complete control over their key configs)

Starting out with the graphics, they're pretty detailed and very nice to look at. I'd say right along par with other games in this genre. My only gripe here is that initially it can be difficult to tell what's going to hurt you and what isn't. This can lead to a few accidental deaths, but as you have unlimited lives it's really not a huge hinderance to the game. Once you figure out what things will hurt you it's not too difficult to spot and avoid them.

Sound in the game is pretty much whatever is absolutely required. There isn't really any music but there are action sounds (rockets firing, explosions, etc) that will keep your ears from getting bored. Again, the sound that's included is well done.

The menu was a bit of a mixed bag, as it was obvously developed (again) for a portable system. You have 3 worlds (colored file folders) to select from on the left and those give you the various levels available (1-1, 1-2, etc.) for you to select. Clicking on a level begins said level.

I'm a pretty intellgent person so figuring out the "story" wasn't too difficult for me. It's presented in the form of cutscene-style video, but as there is no text or voices to the story it's up to you to figure out what's actually happening. From what I understand, the world has come to an end and a fleet of ships has set off to find a new home. You are therefore the explorer of these worlds.

All in all the game could have been ported a little better for the PC. It could have included a menu screen showing the keyboard commands (which you now know). It could have been better fitted to the window. They could have removed the on-screen button graphics, obviously used by the portable version. There's a lot they could have done... That said, I rather enjoy this game as a quick time waster as it doesn't take a lot of time to start and play a level.

If you're spoiled with controller support, custom controls, and perfect ports than don't bother with this game. That said, if you can see past it's rough ported edges then this game is going to be enjoyable for you. At only $2 I'm certainly gonna recommend it.

this game is beautiful. after figuring out what screen size i wanted, i fell inlove witht he art style.

the intro is beath taking, if not a bit longer than need ed but still worth it, the backgrounds are stunning to look at. the controls are simple but only play to it's strenghs, it side scrols for you so all you need to worry about is using your jet pack and firing missles, later in the game you got to control other machines so it has verierty there too. when you die, it's your fault, yes it does require trial and error but that's how old school side scrollers worked back in the day.

suttable for all ages and i would recomend this game for even those mental diffuculties, like one of my cousins who can't quite handle tons of buttons and controls on a game.

for the full price it is completely worth it. on sale, it is a steal.

It seems like a nice game. It's very pretty, and has simple mechanics. A bit to simple. I feel like this game would do well as a mobile app, on a PC it doesn't quite seem to flow correctly. Amazing intro however, but once I started playing... I would love it if this was a game on the play/app store or something.

this game is just no fun. there's simply no joy in playing it. none.

This isnt worth even that 0,69€... terrible menu, terrible game..

The most ridiculus thing about this game is the pricing.. I bought it on 90% sale and it still wasn't worth it.

You can tell how bad the game is going to be from the amateurish-looking main menu.
There's no Tutorial, no explanation of what you are doing in the game whatsoever, the game just starts and it's like "yeah, figure it out for yourself".
And even if you do, it's so frustrating because it's so poorly designed, you can't tell what can harm you or help you. Things just fall off the sky and crash you, things just appear and kill you instantly, things electrocute you even though you can barely see them...

The developers put in the description of this game that "The game is hard." It's not hard. It's just badly designed and impossible to play.

The only good thing about this one is its intro

Awesome, smooth game!

A game that starts with no instructions, no hint as to controls. You have to puzzle it out yourself. I discovered that Space fires jets which moves you, but you only have control of the thrust, not the direction, P fires rockets ahead of you and E opens the menu (which again gives no indication as to what the options are for). The usual Esc for options doesn't work and there is no controller support.

This game looks as though it could have potential, but the complete lack of guidance frustrates and removes any possible enjoyment from the game.