Mainframe Defenders

MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - Turn-based tactics centered around gear and unit customization. It offers simple combat, high replayability, and tons of loot. Items don't just provide stats boost, but also offer distinct mechanics that can be combined into powerful builds.

Mainframe Defenders is a rogue-like, traditional roguelike and 2d game developed and published by Synthetic Domain.
Released on February 25th 2020 is available on Windows and Linux in 13 languages: English, Russian, Hungarian, German, Portuguese - Portugal, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 659 reviews of which 582 were positive and 77 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 0.74€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

The Steam community has classified Mainframe Defenders into these genres:

Rogue-like Traditional Roguelike 2D Tactical RPG 1980s Futuristic 1990's Atmospheric Military Sandbox Colorful Mechs Pixel Graphics Rogue-lite Strategy Procedural Generation Exploration Isometric Turn-Based Combat RPG

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel Celeron
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Processor: Intel Celeron
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

This little game is awesome, especially for the prince. The customization of your units is really deep and offers so much variety, and I absolutely love the style. It can be frustrating sometimes though, because the game doesn't always make it really clear why you are dealing the numbers that you are. For example, I am using a weapon that deals 20-22 damage, I get 100% crit chance if I have moves on this turn and my unit has no status effects. I shoot at an enemy that has no armor and I get a crit and only deal 20 damage when I should be dealing at least 30? Maybe I'm missing something, but its very hard to keep track of every enemy units stats, stage modifiers and player stats. Still 10000% less frustrating than xcom!

Oct. 2024

I'll be honest, I suck at this game xD. But it is pretty damn good, especially considering the price/quality ratio. It's very complex, and it's very hard to get a build going, but it feels very good if you do (even though it happens rarely). The lack of guides doesn't help. The complexity of this game is both a blessing and a curse. I found it to be a bit too complex for me, but I definitely see the appeal. Would recommend.

Sept. 2024

Pretty fun. Took surprisingly long to get a working build going but it really hit those synergy goblin thrills once there. I particularly enjoyed how it encourages you to diversify your strategy by having certain enemies be hard-counters to different damage profiles; keeps you paying attention to what you attack and with whom.

June 2024

I did not expect to enjoy this game so much. It is very simple, somewhat questionable but serviceable AI behaviour, it has repetitive missions. But the progression, weapon and item synergies, squad possibilities make for all those faults. Climbing the game's difficulty after learning how to min max and combo is very satisfying. It has enough weapon variety to keep you going. If you are a fan of turn based squad games, I can 100% recomment it.

May 2024

A well-balanced rogue-like. Every mech is distinctive and has 2-3 builds. Every enemy is dangerous in its own way and has its own weaknesses. Every weapon or item in this game has its application. Every choice matters. Interface and mechanics are intuitive but deep. The only thing this game lacks to be truly perfect is secondary goals in missions. There are no random events or random encounters, so missions of the same type can seem monotonous

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Steam data	21 December 2024 00:40
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Steam price	23 December 2024 12:26
Steam reviews	21 December 2024 22:02

-85% 4.99€ 0.74€

8.3

582

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Developer

Synthetic Domain

Publisher

Synthetic Domain

Release 25 Feb 2020

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