Warpips
Warpips is a tug of war game, where you and the enemy both spawn units on each side of a horizontal map, meet in the middle, and try to get to the enemy's truck on the opposite side. It's a neat idea, but reeeeally didn't hold my interest. It's smooth, has a decent UI, and has some nice graphics and sound effects - but the core gameplay is really shallow. Wait for money, choose whether to spend your points on more units, better units or more money, hammer the buttons, and wait to see who wins. You have zero control over how your units behave, so it's basically just waiting for buttons to become available again.
Pros
- Pretty graphics of little pixel men blowing each other up
- Decent retro sound effects
- Mix of deployable units including infantry, targetable strikes, and defensive turrets
- Multiple game modes. Campaign (with the weird mechanic where your units only work for one mission), an endless mode, and a quick battle where you get random units
Cons
- Repetitive gameplay. Basically just take the same actions over and over again on each mission
- I got several achievements just by clicking on the game in my library, having only played for 15 minutes
- Repetitive music
- In campaign mode, you choose which units to send on a mission. After that mission, they are gone forever.
- Very shallow gameplay
- Units frequently blow things up that they're using as cover