This fast pace is an integral part of Cubetractor and it is created primarily thanks to two factors. Levels each take place on a single screen and they are fast enough that they rarely last longer than five minutes. Spires will prioritize power plants over most other building types, but decoys, the final building type created by combining a magne cube with an earth cube, are specifically designed to be prioritized by spires and non-structural wandering enemies called Meanies take priority over every building type except the decoys and power plants, making spires a powerful but easily diverted tool. When magne cubes are combined with spine cubes they create boltguns which rapidly fire with short range, but when combined with themselves magne cubes create spires, which slowly shoot single bullets at specific targets and the bullets can pass over everything except rocks. Magne cubes are the last of the three to appear and you gradually gain access to the three building types they can create. It doesnвЂ™t take long for the game to mix in earth cubes which can initially only be combined with themselves to create barriers capable of soaking up plenty of damage, but one level after their introduction you can start combining them with spine cubes to create power plants, somewhat fragile and defenseless buildings capable of greatly increasing the firing rate of any friendly buildings placed within a large area around them. You initially only have access to spine cubes so you can only build cannons at the start, which have a fairly long range and periodically shoot sets of three bullets at their targets. There are three offensive structures and three support structures which can be built based on how you combine cubes. Structures can be manually taken down by walking up to them and pressing X and, since cubes respawn shortly after sliding out of the level or after they or structures they are used to build are destroyed, any structures placed on temporarily empty spaces which normally hold cubes will be instantly destroyed. There are three types of cubes in the game and when two cubes sliding in opposite directions collide they create a structure at the point of impact. You can kill some enemies by smashing cubes into them and cubes will even remain intact and keep sliding if they deal enough damage to destroy an enemy, but most challenges need to be overcome through combining cubes. The catch here is that once you pull a cube it will keep moving in that direction until it goes offscreen, sinks into water, gets destroyed by crashing into you, rocks, enemies, or an immobile cube, or combines with another moving cube. Cubes can be pulled from anywhere in the level as long is thereвЂ™s not a mountain in the way and you can even pull cubes at once by rapidly tapping X. Specifically, every level is filled with cubes which can be pulled (and only pulled) in a straight line.

But just what is a Cubetractor? As the name hints at, a Cubetractor is someone who can attract cubes. ItвЂ™s a ridiculous premise and it works well alongside plenty of bits of humorous dialogue between various characters, most of whom want to stop Endroi from randomly destroying their stuff. In this game you take on the role of Endroi, a blue robot who is so focused on becoming a Cubetractor master that he starts attacking random fortresses throughout the land while believing them to be Cubetractor exams. This is a fairly challenging game, itвЂ™s a one-of-a-kind experience, and best of all it is thoroughly entertaining. You must figure out the best ways to use the cubes at your disposal to quickly build up defenses and defeat your enemies with stationary turrets all while dodging around whatever dangers the game throws your way.

Is it an RTS, is it a tower defense game, or is it something entirely different? Cubetractor is a very odd game about moving cubes to smash enemies and make buildings. 2013, 2d, action, commercial, indie game, puzzle, rts, steam, tower defense, video game

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