GLADIABOTS (Early Access / Free to try)

GFX47

- June 20, 2017

Everyone

Strategy

Offers in-app purchases

( 8,662)

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Description

Gladiabots is a tactical game in which you create the AI of your robots.
Craft your battle squad behavior carefully before sending it in this online competition for the title.

The game uses a "free to try" model:
- you can download the game for free and enjoy the demo (limited content)
- if you like the game, unlock the full content by using an in-app purchase of ~2.5$ (exact price depends on your local country)
This is the only in-app purchase of the game.

The game is still in development.

Features
- A unique concept allowing players to use their very own strategy
- An intuitive AI designing interface
- A very active community (see the leaderboards and the forums)
- Robots getting obliterated for your viewing pleasure
- Cross-platform asynchronous multiplayer

Links
- Website: http://gladiabots.com
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJpvHoHwRhM
- Let's play videos: http://letsplay.gladiabots.com
- Press coverage: http://press.gladiabots.com
- Community forum: http://community.gladiabots.com
- Roadmap: http://roadmap.gladiabots.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gladiabots
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gladiabots/
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gladiabots/
- Contact: gladiabots@gfx47.com

Reviews

4.3

8,662 total

5 5,871

4 1,309

3 480

2 274

1 728

Zoth Zulu Zix

"Its a very intuitive game with consistent performace and little to no bugs. Its entretaning and enjoyable." *Although i would consider the first version of the UI" and menu, to be far less graphicaly demanding, minimalistic and easy to understand. The new one seems to have an eyesore effect with the individual node settings contrary to the drop-down ones.

Arthur Eslinger

This is a great game for software devs. A little bit of a learning curve, but that's most of the fun. I love the Tron-ish design. The visuals are sharp and for an Alpha, your dev(s) are amazing. Keep up the fantastic work!

jason fernandes

strategic Ai Explorations brings me more algorithmic tactical operations. It is sure that robots can go above the limits

François DUPONT-CHAMPION

Loved the game and developers fixed my IAP within a day!

Farid Azmi

Nice game, can also be used as gamification for education (basic algorithm)

Matthew Jeremy

Can we get a and/or in one node

User reviews

Zoth Zulu Zix June 21, 2017

Arthur Eslinger June 20, 2017

GFX47 June 21, 2017

Thank you!

jason fernandes June 20, 2017

strategic Ai Explorations brings me more algorithmic tactical operations. It is sure that robots can go above the limits

François DUPONT-CHAMPION June 20, 2017

Loved the game and developers fixed my IAP within a day!

GFX47 June 20, 2017

It has been fixed in 8.6!

Farid Azmi June 22, 2017

Nice game, can also be used as gamification for education (basic algorithm)

Matthew Jeremy June 22, 2017

Can we get a and/or in one node

Kord Kindred June 21, 2017

Awesome!!

Chrono Hyperion June 17, 2017

Well, I'm not quite a explainer but I'll try. You see, Everytime I prepare the Machinegun the legs started to glitch. Unfortunately, this is all I could explain to you. Hope this helps you.

GFX47 June 17, 2017

Hi, could you please give some more information about the bug you encountered?

Matt June 19, 2017

Super fun, looking forward to seeing more! Thanks devs for bringing an awesome idea to life.

Potion Brewer June 18, 2017

I wanna pay for the full game, but the button dosen't work! Also, the tank classes legs...well lets just say they have had a bit too much coffee and are twitching like MAD!

Mike Jensen June 20, 2017

I'm very impressed! Great New-to-me game play.

GFX47 June 21, 2017

Thanks for the review ;)

Mohd Hadif June 18, 2017

Very laggy and crashes alot in the recent update

GFX47 June 20, 2017

Did you try 8.6?

Drew Custer June 18, 2017

This is a fantastic game. Still developing and growing but I love it. I have not been disappointed. I think this game will grow into something big.

Cek Kie June 21, 2017

Best strategies game I've ever played !!

GFX47 June 21, 2017

Thank you very much! :)

Barry Cogen March 7, 2017

I am a PLC and ladder logic engineer. This is basically what I do for a living, and I'm surprised to find myself doing it for fun in my free time! The challenges are interesting, the logic controls are really clever, the interface is intuitive, and the game play is fun. Excellent game! (To the devs: have you considered reaching out to PLC manufacturers like Unitronics to offer this as a training ground/introduction to logic? It sure beats anything I could do to teach trees and conditional operations.)

David Hand March 14, 2017

I bet you played some Carnage Heart on the PSX. Feels a lot like that, but freed from a grid. Can't wait to see what this becomes. Graphics are good, flow chart model is easy to understand, all the modes make sense and are useful in the context of the game immediately. Well done.

Me April 16, 2017

This is a very good game. But i can't understand something in the career section. It says please commit to your past games or whatever but when i try to play the games i have played before, i can't edit anything, i can only see the watch option. I don't know what to do.

Garrett Venus March 8, 2017

So disappointed that this app seems to be taking the King Zynga route. Only reason career mode is multiplayer is to push ads, and the inevitable IAP for ad free. Shame, because this one had so much potential. Edit: Doesn't change the fact, you are forced to PvP in order to unlock Single Player assets. This game would be more than worth $5, if you could use the bots without the PvP unlock requirement while playing offline. Then still have to unlock their usage in multiplayer.

GFX47 February 23, 2017

Hi! There's actually no ads in the game...

ณัฐพงศ์ แสงพูนทรัพย์ March 11, 2017

It is great game for who like coding feel, which you need to create best algorithm for system. Game will help you to shape your algorithm in free time. It little hard in first try, but you will found fun soon if you not give up too fast.

Christopher Williams March 22, 2017

It's a trial version last 10 defeats. Plus Cap level differences, not fun going up against a person that's maxed out the bots they can have and you're still lol 1. It's some BS really.

Rubyet Evan April 20, 2017

Really fun to play. There's so much freedom to test and practice simple to intermediate programming while having a fun challenge. The only issue for me are the unnecessary requirements that are placed for unlocking parts of the game like a paywall or forced matches.

Matthew Northrop April 27, 2017

This an amazing game with lots of potential but I hate the fact that as soon as you get deep into the game and after 10 matches you hit a paywall. Why did you guys have to chose THAT of all things to do? I love this game and I hope it goes far but I am uninstalling this because you guys could have done anything but that to get money for this game.

TheLostOfUsAll -2 March 9, 2017

Amazing game. Don't know what's with the negative reviews, but I haven't touched this masterpiece in a long time. As in, I lost all of my AI long ago. But it was fun building my way back up the ladder. Though something glitches and I unlocked everything after my first loss, trying to rebuild my inefficient AI. I don't mind not paying, but that's something that you may want to look into for lost profits that way.

Robert Fekete May 25, 2017

Amazing game. I think this is actually the best possible menu system for a game so complex achievable on a rather small screen like a phone. Gameplay is amazing and it really makes you think about tactics!

Martin Mari April 21, 2017

Really good game. I really enjoyed it. Takes a bit of thinking to develop good tactics which sets it apart from other games. Only problem I found was the matchmaking in higher leagues is quite bad, I get matched with people 400 points above my score so I get rekt. Other than that it's really fun and one of the better games on Android so I look forward to future updates.

manuel tondeur March 15, 2017

Well it would certainly be a very good game if I was able to play it past 10 games... This is a very cynical way to distribute a game. Offering to play it and then without warning, cutting you off when you have already invested time and effort into it. The frustration might explain the undervalued rating. At any rate this only prompts me to code my own game free and open source in 1 or 2 years if it doesn't already exists, I'll call it Spartacus bots :D

Dakoda Koziol March 3, 2017

It could use some polish but it really is awesome. Who doesn't like logic games? Stupid people, that's who xD. Good luck, this game can be great!

Felix Faber April 29, 2017

Unique concept, very rewarding. The game walks you slowly up the learning curve so I never felt lost. The fire-and-forget multiplayer battles are a great system, a very smooth experience where you can stress-test your creations.

Alex Stefanov March 6, 2017

After 9 wins and 1 loss I hit the paywall on basically everything... and I'm only 30 minutes in. This really sucks. Couldn't you just put ads in it and have a paid "remove ads" feature?

Tyrant TITANIUM April 7, 2017

At the beginning anyone could play, but most of it is not quite for the simple minded. I love this game and will continue to play it. Thank you for making such a great game! I wish to see updates in the future.

Amar Sagoo May 25, 2017

Brilliant concept, highly addictive and rewarding. The interaction could do with some refinement (e.g. connecting nodes is physically tricky), but it doesn't spoil the overall enjoyment.

Thanos Maravelias April 6, 2017

Pretty amazing, actually, with a neat gameplay and awesome base concept. But, this game is a demo, with everything besides 10 matches, the tutorial and 40% of practice behind a paywall. Demos and paid apps are alright, but passing off a free demo as the full app is dishonourable in my book.

HyperNova May 4, 2017

I love the idea of the game a lot! However it seems that there is an imbalance as I rarely won a match. I understood the controls and how to program but it seemed as though my opponent had some advantage.

Hunter Burbank May 12, 2017

This was a great game... then an update came out taking away more than half the features and locking them away behind a pay-to-play wall. Worst decision I've ever seen a game developer make.

nevirful March 22, 2017

My Internet is really slow, so after a dozen matches on my log the game decides that it's taking too long to load and displays 'connection timed out'. Can you solve this issue please? Cuz I'm having so much fun on multiplayer! PS. Auto search&join function for multiplayer would be nice.

Josh Crampton March 5, 2017

plenty of challenges in designing, implementing and testing algorithms to make robots kill each other with increasing efficiency. game seems to slow down and chew resources on phone though, controls are a bit sluggish and take a second to respond.

steven hollister March 7, 2017

The implementation of a logic system as the only user input to a game is a grate idea. I do feal though that the basic logic gates (and, or, not, ECT.) should be added in either a seporate branch type or under conditions. This will allow users more controll and a better understanding of how Digital electronic theory works. This can also rase interest in electrical engineering and other "steam" subjects.

Aaron Knobloch April 8, 2017

Right when you launch the game, they alert that it is in early alpha development and is subject to bugs and changes. And yet they still have the audacity to require a purchase to do anything besides the tutorial. Purchase for what? For a self proclaimed unfinished product? Furthermore, there is a label for developers to publish as a beta release, so why are you advertising it as complete? This trend of marketing and selling "alpha" projects is tiring. Finish the app before trying to sell it!

Dorin Otgon April 25, 2017

I love the game but I wish that you didn't have to buy the rest of the game so you can play the it as it's supposed to be played. Anyways I love the idea of this and I hope more updates are coming soon!

Art Rice March 18, 2017

Nice concept poorly excicuted. Constantly disconnects from server. Was fine until I paid then the problems started. I won't ask for a refund because I spend more on toilet paper each time I go. I only wish I could use this app to wipe my ASS