And this static information is always correct: once you go in, levels play out exactly the way you can predict they’ll play out. You are provided with all this information from the outset, during the briefing cutscene before the Creeper starts flowing. But every levels differs in its terrain layout, the Creeper Emitter locations and the places you can place your Command Node(s), its complicating factors, and the ever-growing set of tools and goodies you’re allowed to bring. Each level posits nothing more complicated at the outset than one or two straightforward objectives: it’s always ‘get the items’ and/or ‘destroy all Creeper Emitters’.
Okay, hear me out: Creeper World 3 is a game consisting of a sequential set levels, that are - on any significant level - almost entirely unconnected. I can certainly see how that would work.īut if you ask me, Creeper World 3 is first and foremost a puzzle game. Or maybe you see Creeper World 3 as more of a survival game at heart, almost horror-esque, one man (and his talking spaceship) against an infinite, unstoppable, unreasoning force. Or maybe the resource management and structure stuff makes you think of it more as an RTS? Also understandable. I made that mistake too! It’s an easy one to make, what with the propensity of towers and whatnot. But more on that in a little bit.Ĭreeper World 3 is… you know, you could be forgiven for thinking that Creeper World 3 is a tower defense game of some sort. It attempts to ludically reinforce its narrative themes, which I respect, it has an interesting visual and acoustic style, and it manages to be both relatively forgiving and balls-out hard. It’s a mechanically simple game that uses a straightforward set of core systems to good effect, before varying on that formula in later levels to prevent rut-forming. and Iron Brigade.īut yeah, frippery aside: I’m having a decent amount of fun with Creeper World 3. I’ll put it on the list with Tetrobot and Co.
Will I play more Creeper World 3 after this review is over? Will I talk about it in mostly glowing terms in spite of those flaws? It seems likely. Does it have flaws I’m going to talk about regardless? Well, sure, of course, every game has those. While quite a few systems are left un-conquered, those systems are spread across three branching paths… each leading to one of the locked campaigns we saw in the main menu earlier! It’s ingenious, I tell you.Īm I enjoying Creeper World 3? Yes, I am. I’m in the Frykt system now, which actually seems fairly close to the end. At time of writing, I’ve beaten four solar systems.
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