Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
So what if you took the single-leader, many soldiers third person real-time strategyy concept of a game like Pikmin, added a dash of the crafting genre, and then spiced it up with a bunch of path-based automation and cooperative play?Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, a delightful and whimsical little game from Massive Miniteam and HandyGames.
It's got all the little tricky battles and funny controls of Pikmin, but it's really delightful because of the approachable, fun logistics puzzles of its automation. Rather than conveyor belts or grabby arms to transport stuff, your little Oddsparks have to be traffic controlled as they follow paths with signs, instructions, and smarly-constructed branches and mergers.
. Forget that last part, though, the takeaway is that Oddsparks is something surprisingly fresh and complete given that it's made of two things you've seen before. It was definitely my surprise favorite of the whole event. "I found the loop really great: Grab a mission, explore the wilderness for resources, then fulfill the mission by automating a product or two… which rewards a new blueprint that you'll need to go find some resources for and get to automating," I said at the time.
Oddsparks is pretty well-received so far, if a little underplayed: It's sitting at 91% positive of 239 reviews on Steam as of press time.Comic deals, prizes and latest newsContact me with news and offers from other Future brandsJon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
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