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The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!
Creeper World IXE is a rts, tower defense and wargame game
developed and published by Knuckle Cracker.
Released on December 12th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 694 reviews of which 490 were positive and 204 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or later
- Processor: Quad Core 2.5Ghz
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated GPU
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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TL;DR: Not a bad game. It mostly just made me want to replay Creeper World 3 or 4, which are much much better. Gameplay: [*]I actually enjoyed my time playing IXE, because I enjoy watching missiles flying into blue goop and making big pressure waves that then get blasted into fine mist by smaller guns. So there's that aspect of CW which is still present. [*]There are a lot of experiments and gimmicks that aren't explored very deeply - the most obvious one being the powder mixing chemistry, which is clunky and not integrated very well into the main gameplay. Digging out a mixing basin, turning on the dropper, turning off the dropper, mining out the mixed materials, then doing that over and over again is a cute minigame the first time, but not very fun if the game tells you to make 1000 units of ixeide to kill the boss after you've already neutralized it with fifty gunships hammering it into submission. [*]The story missions are quite easy. This was most noticeable on the "survive 15 minutes" mission, where the characters talked about how desperate they were to get out of this dangerous situation while I was comfortably destroying everything. I think the problem for a lot of the missions is just not having any time pressure after the early game. It's trivial to just build up your fleet, poke a tiny hole in whatever big mass of creeper you're killing next, and permastun it while you throw missiles in for 10 minutes until the mass drops enough for you to go in. [*]The missions also have a habit of introducing some big dangerous enemy that immediately gets shut down by a new unit. Digitalis was never a problem in the campaign because the spirit ship just completely deleted it, for example. [*]The final mission is an anticlimactic series of puzzles and low-stakes combat tests. There was really no need to make you hold down the mouse button for 10 minutes shooting balls while dodging slowly moving enemies and, on the off chance you get hit by something, respawning right outside the room and going back in with absolutely no consequences besides wasting your time. I think this should've been relegated to the bonus levels. [*]I did enjoy being able to dig holes in the terrain and then patch them up to guide the flow of anticreeper. Playing with fluid pressure more might have been interesting. [*]Very performance-intensive. I couldn't use any game speed above 1 because the game simply could not handle running any faster. But I'm no programmer so I have no idea how one might optimize a powder game like this. Other: [*]The music is good as always. [*]The UI and graphics are pretty ugly. The level design is very obviously "programmer art". I can put up with ugly graphics if the gameplay is good, but I really think the game would have benefited from a once-over from an actual pixel artist. Also, the main menu looking like that is a really bad first impression. [*]The writing is, to be frank, terrible. I will say that the story enhanced my enjoyment of the game: the game would have been worse if it had just been a sequence of contextless levels. But the story was not particularly gripping, nor were the characters interesting, nor was the ending anything other than disappointing. Honestly, I would have preferred if the big bad evil guy was telling the truth at the end, and not just being a scary evil bad guy. That would have been interesting. That being said... I had fun. I like shooting big oceans of blue stuff. The game did a lot of things correctly because the developer is quite experienced and knows how to make good games. I also just inherently respect experimental games like this that do new things. Buy it if you enjoy Creeper World games.
Short version: Instead of this game, buy Creeper World 3 or Creeper World 4. For yourself. Or as a gift for a friend. Long version: I’ve been a fan of this series and this studio since the Flash era. On Steam I’ve completed every game by this studio with 100% achievements. I’ve happily spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in them. So I have something to say. This installment contains several experiments. And, in my opinion, they didn’t work out. I’m not talking about the side view and mining (that was in Creeper World 2), and not about the concept of a fleet built from a limited set of units (that was in Particle Fleet: Emergence) — those ideas are perfectly fine, and the games where they appeared are excellent. I recommend them. I’m talking about these things: - Chemistry. The ability to create acid, explosives, and the like, and then manipulate them as physical substances affected by gravity. This mechanic has a very constrained scope of use — there are places that are literally impossible to pass without chemistry. In all other situations, it is completely unnecessary. It doesn’t add depth. All “puzzles” built around chemistry feel artificial, and if you simply replaced them with “a tougher material to break through,” nothing would change. It’s also unclear why all chemical mixing has to be done outside the chemistry ship, one operation at a time. Overall, this mechanic could have been salvaged by simplifying it — allowing the player to generate the needed elements directly — but then it would shrink even further. - Lack of tactical options. In this game, largely due to the limited and fixed set of units per level, tactical freedom is almost absent. All the player can really do is “push” forward until reaching the goal. I like the tactic of slow, steady pressure. But in Creeper World 3, for example, over time I discovered various non-obvious strategies like “drop a whole group of units at an arbitrary point and set up an outpost there” — and that was awesome. In this installment, that kind of depth was clearly meant to be provided by terraforming and chemistry — but they are not needed for anything beyond these “special gimmicks.” To use them meaningfully (rather than crudely), I have to grind and master specifically them, with no benefit to the regular gameplay. That’s very frustrating. - The ship as a set of blocks. A potentially interesting idea, but underdeveloped. It feels like turning the ship into blocks was added as a crutch for movement, rather than made into a core mechanic. It could have been so much more. You could detach parts from the main ship, creating a choice between one huge Death Star and a fleet of small ships. You could introduce combinatorics of ship elements and various effects / bonuses / buffs depending on combinations — glue anti-creeper and missiles into one ship and you get anti-creeper missiles. Yes, it would be much harder to balance. But it would also be far more fun to play. You could even make not only the player’s assets, but the creeper fluid itself, assemble into clumps and ships. In summary: - Is this a good game? Well, it’s OK. - Will I give it a positive rating? Yes — I want to support the studio. - Do I recommend it? Well… only if you’ve already played all the other games by this studio to death. In general, Creeper World 3 or 4 are much better.
A fun continuation and expansion of the Creeper World series. This entry is more reminiscent of Creeper World 2, in that it is played in a 2-D side view rather than from the top down like 1,3, and 4. I would not place this as my favorite in the series, but it is a worthy addition. This dev continues to give the tools to the community to let them create custom maps with custom graphics and scripts, which allows for some real creativity to shine through in the user-made content. The user maps made by the community are always a highlight, exploring concepts and ideas beyond what the base game offers, all easily accessible from within the game not needing to deal with any external workshops. There is a robust level editor with its own scripting language, which allows you to really go as far as your imagination and skills can take you when it comes to creating a custom map. This game has received somewhat less love from the map making community, but there's still plenty of neat ideas and different gamemodes available through the custom maps available (plus new maps are still being created to this day, albeit somewhat sporadically)
I really loved this installment of Creeper World. It is different to the earlier CW's but that's okey. It does have a certain retro charme to it. Limited units adds to this being more puzzle-esque. The creeper being affected by gravity is a nice switch up. There is a reason this isn't CW5. It's still the CW formula, but with a different gameplay feel and approach.
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Creeper World IXE is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
No, Creeper World IXE is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Yes, Creeper World IXE received 490 positive votes out of a total of 694 achieving a rating of 6.77.
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Creeper World IXE was developed and published by Knuckle Cracker.
Yes, Creeper World IXE is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Creeper World IXE is not playable on MacOS.
No, Creeper World IXE is not playable on Linux.
Creeper World IXE is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Creeper World IXE. Explore additional content available for Creeper World IXE on Steam.
No, Creeper World IXE does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Creeper World IXE does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Creeper World IXE is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Knuckle Cracker
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Knuckle Cracker
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12 Dec 2024
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