Bad Bots Reviews
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.
App ID | 235070 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Point Five Projects |
Publishers | Digital Tribe |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support |
Genres | Indie, Action |
Release Date | 17 May, 2013 |
Platforms | Windows, Mac |
Supported Languages | English |

260 Total Reviews
145 Positive Reviews
115 Negative Reviews
Mixed Score
Bad Bots has garnered a total of 260 reviews, with 145 positive reviews and 115 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mixed’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
236 minutes
Well Bad Bots is not either Bad or Good it is average.
Why you asking ? I will tell you the story.
First of all there are no gamebreaking bugs or mistake that will stop you from finish what you started. But the game lost his faith a two stupid gameplay functions. The first one is the you are hit by electric or melee animation that will keep you struggling and stun locks you in the first final run. And the second his that you will keep climbing up at edges, even when you want to go down.
Ok ok stop it. I tell you somethin you dont even know about. I will go backwards.
Bad Bot is a Game of his genre to be an average one. It contain a simple story and no really deep Gameplay functions. Just run and gun.
The enemy is an army full of robots and they want to kill you. How unforgened that this is to simple. There are different types of enemys and there a map obstacle that arent really funny. But there are only two parts of each level where you gonna die. Both parts are nearly at the end. The First one is the run thru the sleep quaters. At this point you need to fight lot of melee enemys that spawn until a current amount is reached. There is problem number one. The problem based on the you are hit by melee animation that will stun lock you and you die. The second part is the End fight against mother. Not a big deal but you need along time to take her down. Because she has a big amount of Health.
The rest simple, repeated and not challenging at all.
And it is short.
Do I recommend it to buy and play it.
Yes and No. 5 bucks are to much more 4 hours. It isnt worth.
When you like Game of that type you should buy it and played. better wait for sale.
To the rest. This game is no must have. But it is a nice have.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
457 minutes
Meh. Bought this for $1.50 so I can't really complain. It's an old school side scroller with old school design. It other words, it's a controller thrower...
It gets very repetitive, has no map despite a maze-like ship, has a terrible animation when you get hit that causes major problems later, and has a boring storyline whose sole twist you'll see coming from the start.
The difficulty can be adjusted, but in game it's pretty simple until the final part of the story. All of a sudden the difficulty is ramped WAY up. Instead of 4-5 opponents on screen, you've fighting 20 or more at once. Also, instead of the one hit kills you fought en masse earlier, these opponents take several shots to kill. Don't worry though, you get more powerful weapons along the way in the story, BUT in this phase they're very, very limited to what you brought and the crappy shotgun. Expect to run out of ammo before you clear the first room, and there are three of these... What makes it worse is that crappy "I got hit" animation that causes you to effectively get stuck in your enemies if you make the slightest mistake while moving non-stop during this phase. I can't say this is "old school design", just a huge design mistake.
Once you get past this area you get to fight a boss that you must grind down slowly. No easy trick to beat it and it'll take a few attempts for you to get the pattern down.
I won't say this game is completely awful, but it's not great. There are better games to be played on Steam unless you really long for the old side scroller days (in which case, have at it).
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
735 minutes
I recommend this game to pretty much anyone who loves shooting games like Duke Nukem 1 n 2, Biomenace, Abuse. It reminds me that kind of DOS games where you run jump and shoot stuff. Also, the guys that worked on the game helped me instantly when i had a problem with a savegame. It has replayability too. What else do you need really :D
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
40 minutes
At first, I liked the game. Controls are a little bit nasty at the beginning, but soon you can handle it. Graphic style is quite cool, story is nice.
Played a little bit and then ... well, you meet all the caveats.
- Some screens holds tons of enemies. The red ones won't do much harm, but they're very annoying. Far too much of them. Lacking of good level design, enemies are thrown at you. And more enemies. And even more enemies.
- The game is unfair. Enemies with weapons shoot at you before you can see them. And they are quite good shooters. While they can hit you, it doesn't mean that you can do also vice versa. Nope. No chance.
- You aim, you shoot. WTF, I MUST have hit them. Well, can be. Often, it isn't.
- Pain in the ass to jump around with your character. Pressing a button of the gamepad would be too easy. You have to move the controller stick upwards. No fun, if ... tons of enemies keep firing their bullets at you. Did I mention that they are good shooters?
Sorry, could have been a good one!
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
303 minutes
This game is like the best project out of videogame production class for highschoolers. Not bad, but not great either. I guess I recomend it. I had fun, though there were a couple almost impossible parts in the game if you play on regular difficulty.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
193 minutes
The game is fun but extremely buggy. I first got the game and had to wait a few weeks for a patch to be released since there was a bug where the first boss spawns which makes you unable to fight the boss(he just stands in the corner and never comes to life)
This issue was fixed and I have encountered another game freezing bug which makes me unable to complete the game. It is not a bad game when it works but please do not waste your money on this unplayable garbage because even after a few updates there are still game ending bugs in this.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
73 minutes
This is literally the reason I acquired Steam. I had been avoiding it for some time, and at this point, I don't even remember why. These were still the days in which Steam wasn't essentially the absolutely required hub for games, though, so it might have been partially because of that. Whatever the case, I had worked with the developer of this game on a project previously, and I wanted to support him by getting this. I really enjoy the game, too. Its atmosphere, graphics, and story are really engrossing. The only downside I'd have to say is that it's pretty tough, and that might actually be more of my fault for being bad at the genre than anything else. I really want to see more in this vein from the developer, but unfortunately I haven't seen or heard anything from him in years.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
328 minutes
As the name kind of give away its a bad game so there is at least honest advertising. Its a mediocre 2d sidescrolling shooter with among the most repetitive gameplay I have come across in a shooter game ever and the game has really poor pacing since the game goes on forever and ever before the first thing happen...and then you are all of a sudden on the end boss. The game has no music while you play at all and has a bunch of other strange design choices that really weirdly defended by the developer in a FAQ on the forums: http://steamcommunity.com/app/235070/discussions/0/828939797184939390/
The achievements in the game are fairly straight forward but has some missable stuff just towards the end so would hunt down the save folder location and duplicate your saves as you are getting close to the end in case you mess them up and overwrite your autosave forcing you to replay the entire game to be able to do things again. The most annoying achievement in the game is for dying 50 times which is surprisingly hard and actually is something you have to intentionally grind to get.
[b]Time to 100%:[/b] 6 hours
👍 : 9 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
301 minutes
[h1]2013 game[/h1]
if i look at what is on offer across steam these days,
this isn't a weak point.
a recent playout had me pleasantly surprised,
bright graphics that lifted my mood,
interesting [u]shooter[/u] (2D sidescrolling),
the story is typical; ([b]THERE-IS[/b] a story),
[i]you pick up a limbless bot that now is your companion narrating along the way,
AI gone haywire,
space travelling junkyard world, [/i]
+get it on sale, EVEN BETTER
+balanced gameplay
-achievements (there aren't any)
[b]RECOMMENDED :) [/b]
👍 : 18 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
459 minutes
With so many negative reviews it was hard for me to make the choice of whether or not to buy this game. I spent a great deal of time combing the forums to get a feel for what Bad Bots exactly was. Not to mention starting a post that insisted that games such as Bad Bots should have a demo when mixed reviews come into play.
Once the demo was made available, I spent about an hour playing Bad Bots, got a feel for the dynamics, and quickly realized that I needed this game ASAP.
That being said... The game is great. Bad Bots has an old school vibe that reminds me of a SEGA game called "Slime World." If you're into murdering blood thirsty robots and trying to save Earth from being attacked by the Titan Hauler, this is the game for you. As the only living human survivor aboard the ship its up to YOU to save the Earth from being overrun by millions of murderous robots.
Bad Bots has several different weapon upgrades and choices, tons of hidden rooms, and a great story that keeps you on your toes and guessing the whole time. Plot twists and hard bosses round out the game and make it a must have for anyone who enjoys a good platformer.
Graphics: 6/10
Playablity: 7/10
Story: 8/10
Challenge: 7/10
Replay Value: 8/10
👍 : 23 |
😃 : 1
Positive