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Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
Particle Fleet: Emergence is a strategy, indie and simulation game
developed and published by Knuckle Cracker.
Released on September 29th 2016 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 1,223 reviews of which 1,131 were positive and 92 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or later
- Processor: Dual Core 2Ghz
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.8+
- Processor: Dual Core 2Ghz
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
- Processor: Dual Core 2Ghz
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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I killed all the coronavirus in this game :D (Pro tips below too) Honestly, I prefer Creeper World 3 over this for a better value, replayability and fun. That isn't to say Particle Fleet isn't worthy, it's a much shorter game (albeit I didn't spend time on custom ships or community maps) that brings refreshing mechanics and ways to play the game in the same engine - controlling limited ships instead of towers. The game focuses a lot more on strategic positioning than being able to rush, with a sense of capture the flag for expanding energy production (e.g. there's no reactors building, only terrain mining). Technically speaking, it works, but in practice I found myself having less fun than ❤️❤️❤️❤️ing around and finding out, pushing the game to its limits. Some later missions are kinda hard: the ships have weak spots in their back (losing thrusters is almost guarantee death), enemy emitters are unforgiving fighting you back aggressively when damaging them, and it's easy to get overwhelmed on micro-managing good positions for 6+ ships. Wouldn't say it's stuff to avoid, there's a nice challenge in this. All achievements are easily obtainable in ~4-5 hours of gameplay, by finishing the campaing. Pro tips: • Use all your EMP points in tech, especially range, defensive cannons. Ship upgrades aren't that much worth it, • Spamming and moving collectors in the enemy terrain is very effective to capture land, let the cannons do the job. • If you're stuck in level 15 and 16 with that Big Bertha cannon eating you (like a lot of reviews lol), just hide your main ship behind the top left terrain and add one or two decoy ships in front (can be a hammer), keep cover in the terrain always. You'll lose ships often, but rebuilding them is not an issue on safe terrain. Worth on a sale, definitely not full price unless you have a history of sinking hours and hours in community maps!
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At first, I didn't really like this game. A big reason for that is the game does a poor job of explaining what each weapon does and how certain mechanics work. Additionally, the default ships are fairly underwhelming, which can make it feel like most of them don't have much of a niche. However, once I replayed the game, spent time making custom ships, and did lots of playtesting with them, I was able to understand what everything does. This game is very fun once you know what you're doing and built your own fleet. The campaign is the weakest point of the game. Its real strength comes from the ship editor, map editor, bonus missions, etc. You should just play the campaign to learn the CW lore, while the real experience starts *after* the campaign. It's an excellent game that just does a poor job of advertising its strengths to you.
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It's basically creeper world but in space. It's good if you like creeper world. It also probably takes place in the same universe as the creeper world stuff. is what i thought before i got past level 15. anyways. there's more text exposition than normal creeper world games, so if you don't like that then you might not enjoy the story as much.
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This is my favourite Knuckle Cracker Creeper World type game. It is surprising how good this game is considering how complex the mechanics are. I am still playing the custom levels to this day.
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Better than Creeper World. No! That's heresy... but it's so addictive. Was just gonna try it out for 15 minutes before dinner. 3 hours later the sun is down and my belly is still growling! Played another 4 hours and had to add more accolades to this review: Seriously well-made game. Each map in story mode (which is basically a fun tutorial for the multitude of ships you can build) has a few start locations with different difficulty / rewards, so replay is possible. You can also post your time against ALL other players (as with the creeper games) The author's honed his craft through the excellent Creeper World series to the point where in Particle Fleet, it actually feels like you're positioning military assets in battle. The enemy reacts to your moves in this game, requiring more strategy including tactical withdrawals. (or perhaps I'm just not good at the game yet). The ships you control, while increasing each level, are limited so you need to protect different front lines and use your upgrades to match your play-style. I've been putting everything into defence so I can survive, but I'm sure pro-players could go full aggro instead. After some more time, I wasn't good enough to beat the final story mission, so I tried the random map generator. Nice that you can choose a more relaxing difficulty. I also tried some download maps, but couldn't find easy ones. There are many ways to search maps, but I couldn't find sort-by-difficulty. I still need to try out ship design.
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Particle Fleet: Emergence is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
Particle Fleet: Emergence is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
Particle Fleet: Emergence received 1,131 positive votes out of a total of 1,223 achieving a rating of 8.75.
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Particle Fleet: Emergence was developed and published by Knuckle Cracker.
Particle Fleet: Emergence is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Particle Fleet: Emergence is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Particle Fleet: Emergence is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Particle Fleet: Emergence is a single-player game.
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Particle Fleet: Emergence does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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Online players
31
Developer
Knuckle Cracker
Publisher
Knuckle Cracker
Release
29 Sep 2016
Platforms
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