Auto Blobber
- TheAwakening
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
Overview
You control a blob. Or more precisely, the blob plays the game by itself. In Auto Blobber you help the blob by giving them the right tools, either a weapon or an upgrade, to defeat evil blobs and minions while surviving each wave. You choose the right weapons, improvements, and upgrades between rounds, one by one, and observe which one deals more damage. Further waves will spawn elites and bosses and will increase the limit of your blob weaponry. You can unlock more blobs and weapons with the coins you earn.
Gameplay
You start choosing which blob you want, which will change the way it plays. Be it more health but less speed, a higher evasion blob, healing only with coins picked up, etc. Before starting a wave, you must pick an upgrade or weapon, which will spend your glob. You only have three choices per roll; if you don’t see anything you like, you can skip picking up something or even reroll (consecutive rolls cost coins), but only if you really don’t have available spaces. You can also sell anything you want for globs. Blob starts with six spaces only; 4 more are acquired every ten waves.
During a wave you can only collect coins with your mouse and speed up the battle up to x2. Your blob shoots their weapons when enemies are close, but you can also pick the pattern of a weapon to fire (closest, furthest, strongest, or weakest foe, for example), so you get to choose how your blob will attack. It will always move to engage the closest enemy to attack, keeping in mind not to get hit and to stay at the needed range. If being cornered, it will hug the walls of the map, but reaching any corner, there’s a portal that will bring them to the starting point. Or getting zapped if he collides with a lightning arc.
What the game does not tell you is that for every three copies of a weapon/upgrade, it will increase its tier, modifying a weapon’s type of firing or stacking all upgrades. If it is a weapon upgrader or a stat upgrader, you will gain a lesser enhancement. Should you beat down an elite or a boss, a better enhancement will be earned. Lesser enhancements usually increase your blob stats even further, while better enhancements grant you unique abilities, such as ones that will interact with your cursor or special blobs that cannot be obtained elsewhere. At any moment you can discard installed blobs in your arsenal to get a refund of globs, should your strategy and build change on further waves.
Additional blobs and weapons can be purchased from the shop (even between waves), but only one type of blob can be played in a game. All the weapons you bought will be added to the roster, however. There is no option to block a weapon you don’t like for the rest of the game, so you’ll have to reroll for free once, then use coins for other options. Some weapons excel at AoE (area of effect), while others deal large amounts of damage to a single target. Upgrading these weapons will make them more effective with new attack patterns. You can see your damage per second at the top corner of the screen if the option is enabled. Having a combination of several weapons that can kill every evil blob, along with single upgrades, is the core of the game. Once defeated, you can check how well your blob performed.
Bugs Found
In rare cases, if you have only the blob freezer weapon, the orbs make your blob unable to hit an enemy and thus mess with their AI movement to the point they don’t move from their position, only in circles.
Audio & Graphics
The retro sound effects and music were okay but the volume was lower than my PC. Had no issue with FPS, and even on 20+ waves where there are more enemies, FPS didn’t lower a lot. As performance goes, it really isn’t important in an auto battler. The graphics are okay as well; you can disable screen shake and flashing effects if you prefer.
Pros & Cons
Pros-
Plenty of weapon/upgrade combinations to try.
Easy autobattler roguelike to handle.
Cons-
No option to banish weapons we don’t want (only not buying them in a save)
Coins are needed for rerolls (with an upgrade included to reduce the cost); it can be a bit problematic at the beginning.
Rating: 7/10
At least it is not telling you to burn things…
