GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena

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In-app purchases

About this game

Gladiabots is a robot combat strategy game in which you carefully construct the AI of your robot squad and send them into the battle arena. Improve, refine and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Features:
- Create your own AI and watch your robots execute it in the arena
- Fix it, improve it and repeat it until you outsmart all your opponents
- Simple and powerful AI programming system offering millions of possible combinations (with no programming skills required)
- Create and customize your robot crew
- Single player campaign with hundreds of solo missions
- Online multiplayer career mode featuring, ranked, unranked and private matches
- 3 distinctly different game modes: elimination, domination and collection
- Create and compete in tournaments
- Asynchronous multiplayer - battle friends even if they are not online
- Sandbox mode in which you control both teams to test your tactics
- Rank up and earn points to unlock new robot skins

IMPORTANT NOTE
This free version is to be considered as a demo with limited features. You'll have to pay to unlock features.
This game doesn't have any ads and is NOT pay-to-win!
The in-app purchases allow you to buy in-game credits that you can use to unlock new skins for your robots. They are optional, purely cosmetic and don't give any gameplay advantages.

Ratings and reviews

I love this game! I really enjoy programming debugging and fine tuning my robots. My least favorite feature is that it often tries to get you to log in or create an account, but that's easy to work around. I like that the rules are always the same for both players and you can't buy features or abilities to give you unfair advantage over other players - it's a pure, untainted strategy game. It's fun and engaging and educational (logic, algorithms, and programming) ++

I tried to like this game, I really did. However, the tutorial left me with more questions than answers, as it seems to focus on how to connect pre-made snippets rather than design strategies. I couldn't get past the 3rd level even after going through the tutorial 4 times. The UI tends to be overly complex and finnicky, and I often had to fight with the UI to achieve what I wanted. The idea is solid, but the game needs an overhaul and an actually helpful tutorial focused on gameplay.

I would give it all fives if I were able to sequence actions. My ability to construct the ai is severely limited because control flow starts all the way back at the beginning as soon as the first valid action is executed. This game reminds me of Carnage Heart. I'm sure that the creators borrowed directly, and I must say I like how they removed the original barriers of the programming space. Regardless, that's not enough. There are still disappointing limitations. I would say it's a great start and it should be improved as soon as they can.

What's new

[Campaign] Updated the campaign missions with AIs from season 5
[Credits] Increased the initial credits (1000 -> 5000)
[Game] Made bots on force fields unpushable
[Game] Added a 1m/2m distance filter category
[Game/Domination] Increased the base capture approach distance (1m -> 2m)
[Game] Defaulting to closest entity when a ClosestToAXXX selector find an equality
[Game] Improved the starter kit AIs
[Localization] Renamed the "capture base" action to "conquer base"