Rigonauts is the fantastical building battle game from Engient. Snap together the ultimate vessel and send your crew of Hobs into battle. With a well designed ship and a clever plan, your crew will smash and blast past an assortment of strange and dangerous foes. Of course no single plan survives the enemy and each tactical tweak will bring you closer to victory.
The premise is that you are the commander of a ship full of "crewlins" (an amalgamation of crew and goblin) trying to escape from your evil overlords. You land on an island and convert your ship to landworthiness, and then face off against an increasingly baroque series of opponent ships. The key gameplay element is that as you progress, you unlock new weapons and tools, as well as new construction materials to build your ship with. Combat is entirely automated, like winding up a couple of toys and letting them bang into each other, so the key to successfully defeating your opponent is planning in the pre-combat stage. This means Rigonauts is much more puzzle game (figuring out the "gimmick" to an enemy is paramount) than action game, although there are multiple solutions to a puzzle that might work with enough luck.
Before a fight, you get a look at the enemy ship (or ships) that you'll be squaring off against, and you can see which pieces of the ships have what weaknesses, select guns based on that, and then prioritize an order of targeting for your gunners. You also get the chance to place guns on your ship, align them, and improve the pieces constructing your ship for the purposes of armor or balance. As you win battles, you unlock new guns, new ship parts, and more-complicated enemies to destroy, albeit at a painstakingly slow pace. Levels are challenging, but the lack of direct control and the many seemingly random factors (how your ship's physics behave in response to a stimulus, for example) mean that a good portion of success is dependent on luck.
System Requirments:
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP with SP2 / Vista / 7
Processor: Intel® Pentium™ 4 2.4 GHz or better
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 250 MB
Video Card: Any OpenGL 2.0 graphics card with 256MB+ video RAM
Direct X®: DirectX® 9.0c
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