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Powerline Guardians

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In Powerline Guardians, step into the boots of a fearless defender on Mars, where a team of powerful drills works tirelessly to extract valuable Martian ore. Five power lines connect the drills to their energy source, but swarms of hostile Martian spiders are determined to cut off the power and halt the operation.


Your mission: defend the power lines at all costs. Eliminate incoming spider waves, repair any damaged wires, and ensure the drills keep working until they've gathered enough ore. As the pressure rises, your reflexes, strategy, and repair skills are all that stand between success and total shutdown. Hold the line, fend off the infestation, and secure the ore to complete your mission!

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Hmm, feels like this could be something pretty nice, like a simplified browser version of Deep Rock Galactic or Helldivers: call it deeprock.io or helldivers.io? The game has a decent construction to it where everything felt rather intuitive and I was able to get into the game quickly, even without creating an account, which is nice. The graphics are pretty lo-fi, but cute. Not too shabby!

Unfortunately in its current state, it feels like its only in a very early alpha state. The gameplay is pretty dry which makes actions like shooting spiders rather unsatisfying, and the combat and objective design isn't very exciting, feeling like boring busywork instead of thrilling chaos like it does in Deep Rock or Helldivers. It doesn't help either that there's no one playing it at the moment, and there are no bots to help the single-player experience. Basically, the game feels like its only a skeleton at the moment: needs some more meat on them bones before its presentable!

Understandable that it's not as fleshed out as I'd like considering its a game jam game, but I just wanted to be honest with my experience. Also I'm obviously not seeing in its best condition, reviewing it after its initial population period. Still, considering it is a game jam game, I do think a game like this has lots of potential: with a bit more work into it, I would've loved to play a little coop game like this on my school browser back in the day!

Needs an account = 0 stars.

Jurfix responds:

You don't need an account here, when the authorization window opens there is a button "Continue as GUEST" which does not require creating or logging into an account

Why do I have to make a account just to play this?!?

Jurfix responds:

You don't need an account here, when the authorization window opens there is a button "Continue as GUEST" which does not require creating or logging into an account

really nice little game, but too bad there are not a lot of players online as it would be really fun to play with someone ! nice Job

Jurfix responds:

Thank you

The game feels unfinished. Is there a win condition? When the spiders reached the core they didn't seem to be able to do any damage to it, and my drills didn't seem to have any progress bars either.

I started a game with just one other player and they left so I was by myself, so maybe it just doesn't work under those conditions

Jurfix responds:

The progress bars of the drills are located in the upper right corner, you need to repair all the lines so that they are yellow until they become green, the goal of the game is to fill all 5 progress bars

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Nov 30, 2024
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