Battlecruisers Showdown

Battlecruisers unfolds in the 28th century, long after rising seas drowned most of the land and humanity vanished. Their robot descendants are left squabbling over the last spits of dry ground. You play Charlie, an opportunistic utility robot who borrows an unattended Trident-class battleship for a quick spin, only to learn it belongs to the planet's greatest superpower.

Each real-time battle puts you in charge of design, construction, resourcing and strategy at once. Arm and defend your cruiser or watch it sink, and every victory hands you more to work with: frigates, artillery, bombers, lasers, stealth generators, shields, boosters and builder drones to speed up production. The arsenal climbs toward napalm, nuke launchers and experimental ultraweapons like the Death Star Satellite, the Ultralisk Rapid Fabrication Facility and the Kamikaze Signal.

Devious AI captains such as Huntress, Destruktor and Karen demand sharp tactics, especially on the hardest difficulty. The whole thing is wrapped in hand-drawn art whose particle system never repeats a blast, and a mood-dynamic soundtrack that tracks the swings of each fight. Battlecruisers was made by Mecha Weka, a three-person team spread across New Zealand, Germany and Texas.