Bots 'n Bolts

Pandcorps

About this game

Bots 'n Bolts is a retro platformer inspired by 8-bit and 16-bit games from the '80s and '90s. Play as Void, an advanced robot designed by Dr. Root, to fight Dr. Final's Array of fiendish robots. Run, jump, and fire your arm cannon

through twelve exciting levels! Collect upgrade Bolts to earn new abilities. Defend our world, and save the day!

Ratings and reviews

A passable rip-off of Mega Man that borrows ideas from Metroid back in the days of the NES, but nowhere near as challenging as either game. Once I got the 5-way shot, the game was even easier; to the point of being broken. Speaking of broken: now that I've collected almost all the items and abilities (only 2 left), I can no longer progress past a specific map on Drought Bot's stage without the game crashing. Decent game for what it is, but dont expect to be blown away or see anything new.

This game has potential to good, as it is the music is headache inducing the jump feels like butter some of the stages are to long and the character design are hit and miss and there is no penalty for getting hit other than losing a hundredth of your health. On the other hand the pixeart on most of the stages is amazing. And it reminds me alot of mega man 2 in terms of gameplay as I said it has potential and I would love to review it again and give it 5 stars one day.

It's fun but I managed to get softlocked on the 3rd phase of the final boss. All I did was shoot him down while he was using the grapple, and then he just started swinging without doing anything. I couldn't kill myself so now I have to redo the ENTIRE final stage. This issue is extremely problematic and can be extremely frustrating. Imagine putting half an hour into something all for you to have to do it all over again because of a bug, it's not pleasant.

What’s new

Fixed graphical bugs (like trying to place buttons past the edge of the screen) on some devices.
Fixed missing sound effects on some devices.
Sometimes it was hard to find power-ups, and it was unclear that the power-ups were necessary to reach the later levels. Now the game guides the player so that it's easier to find the power-ups (but players can still disable automatic level selection if they prefer to explore without this guidance).