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Review: Goombles

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[Originally posted January 04, 2024]



“The sweetest player-owned mobile game!”

TLDR: 

  • PvP tower defense

  • Cute sweet themed aesthetic

  • Solid, if basic, core loop

  • Lacking strategic depth at this stage

  • Too early to rate but I like the direction

How to play

  • Playable on mobile or PC

  • Closed testing for NFT holders


Game Loop

  • You load into the game and can either play solo or PvP, both your aim is the same, survive as many waves as possible by using towers to defend your castle

  • Loading in you have a single track that takes multiple branches from the creature spawn to your castle

  • You opponent has an identical map - during play, you can switch between yours and theirs

    Game map switching
  • To defend your castle you have 3 towers

  • An all round tower, an anti-infantry tower, and an anti-air tower

    An all round tower, an anti-infantry tower, and an anti-air tower
  • You also have a moveable mech

  • Your mech has 2 abilities to help with defense, rockets, and slow sheild.

  • Each kill drops some gold, this gold is used for tower upgrades

  • During the upgrade tree, you need to make a choice on which stat to focus on

  • The graphic for the tower changes as you level

  • You also randomly collect S tokens.

  • These are used to hinder your opponent, e.g. disabling their mech

  • The winner is the one who survives the longest

Game feel

  • The core loop is well-known but solid

  • I like the aesthetic and the graphics

  • Some of the animations are good, the guns firing, others are underwhelming, all projectiles looking the same

  • There are several UI changes that I’d like to see them bring in from previous tower defense games - such as upgrade tool tips

  • You quickly run out of tower placement spots, leaving you only with upgrades

  • I managed to reach a point were I had nothing left to buy

    All tasks done :)
  • With only 3 towers and a single spawn point, there is limited strategic options

  • However I think further map and tower development will help this and I do like the direction being taken

Rating

  • I am going to rate it “too early” at this point

  • I would recommend keeping an eye on it as it is targeting a very underserved audience with its casual playstyle and cute aesthetic

  • I’ll be interested to see how much depth is added with more towers and maps getting developed.

    Rating Card: Too early to say

Web3 integration

  • The game is currently gated behind Goomble Avatars on Cardano

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