DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME. It has not been touched by the devs in over 2 years and is completely broken at this point. After-mission rewards cannot be claimed, and even then the mission objectives will break more than half of the time so you are incapable of completing the mission. This game will never leave Early Access and more than likely will never be made playable again.

Game hasn't been updated since June '18, another abandoned game that had potential.

I want to start this off by saying that the game is promising. It's a nice concept and the base for all the really good stuff is already there. When or if this game comes further along, I'll likely change my review. I intentionally played the game for under 2 hour so I would have the ability to refund it later if I did not think it was going to go anywhere.

PROS:
-Aesthetics:
It looks ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ great. Honestly, it does. The low poly style goes really nice with robots, although I can't say the same for some of the enemies.

-Customization:
Building your robot with different parts, although currently limited is actually really fun, and there are some pretty cool characters you can make. The game does let you have 5 different equipment set ups, that you're able to swap through in the menu and at a little pad near the start of each level.

-Ability to refund skill points
Skill points can be refunded for no cost any time. This is really great, as you can mess around and see which stats you think work the best for you.

CONS:
That's about it for what's good. For the rest of what I say, I wouldn't take it as why the game is bad, but rather what would make the game better. The only real reason I'm not playing more of this game right now is due to its clear lack of content and extremely repetitive "missions".

-Repetitive "Missions":
I'm going to chalk this one up to the game still being fairly new. Currently there are only two modes, PvP and Explore. I have not been able to play PvP yet, as basically no one plays this game (got to about rank 50 world after 1.5 hours). Explore is really misleading, because it's not exploration at all. You just walk through a very linear cave system filled with enemies, and you're offered two goals. The main goal is always the same, although they give them different names, you're basically just going up to objectives and pressing F. Once you've pressed F on enough different objectives, you head to the boss and leave. You can go to the boss before hand, but you won't get any loot if you haven't completed at least one objective. The sub objectives are really well done, they're basically just a small randomized goal. Collect X amount of X crafting materials, crit X number of times or don't change your loadout during the mission. These accomplish their goal pretty well, and offer an extra chance at loot when completed.

-Artificial difficulty:
The game never actually becomes more challenging. Just harder to do the same exact thing you were doing. More enemies with higher stats. It gets to the point where you'll just be swarmed and killed in the same spot over and over again unless you press the 'escape' button and select the suicide command, which teleports you to some spot back on the map. There's more to this swarming issue, but I'll bring that back up in a bit. I don't mind the enemies getting more stats, it makes sense because I do much more damage when I get better gear. But making boss fights and side rooms with loot just swarm with enemies is really annoying. They will block you in, stunlock you and just kill you over and over again. In harder levels, it's better to just ignore all the enemies and run past everything while completing the objectives. You don't get anything for killing them anyways, except 1 random crafting material sometimes. With the game being called an action rpg you would think fighting would be the main focus. If combat in a combat centered game become something you'd rather just avoid altogether, then there is very little reason to keep playing.

-Basic attacks cost power:
This really got me upset, and I put up with it because I wanted to get a better feel for the game before I wrote a review. There is a power system in the game, which is basically the equivalent of a mana bar in any rpg. Your skills use power, but their cooldowns are so long (and for a good reason, they're mostly pretty strong) that it's basically negligible. Because of this, you're left to just shoot your left and right guns most of the game, which is what is shown in all the trailers so I expected as much. The issue is that your basic attacks cost power. I can't tell if this was supposed to be something you were supposed to "strategically work around" or learn how to manage, but it basically just leaves you kiting enemies for half the time you're in the dungeon since you're literally unable to do anything but walk around. Usually in mmos, when you were out of mana or your skills are on cooldown, you'd use basic attacks for filler. In this game, since your skills are on a super long cooldown, your basic attacks are basically your spells and there's nothing you can even do for filler except run away until it's back up. I suppose this wouldn't be an issue if power regenerated quickly, but even with the regeneration stat almost maxed out and multiple pieces of regeneration gear you run into really long down times on certain weapons. It doesn't add to any sort of difficulty or level of skill, it's just frustrating.
I'm not a game developer myself, so I can't really say what they should do instead, but I have a pretty good idea. I'll include it at the end.

-Skills are bland:
I don't mean your active abilities, these skills are what you use your skill points on when you level up. They are the equivalent of your stats or attributes in other games. It was obvious at first look, there wasn't a ton of thought behind this. Like I said earlier, I'm not a game developer so I can't say what they should do instead. Usually when I play an rpg one of the most fun things is min maxing and creating cool builds. These skills offer very little in that aspect and its pretty obvious what you want to put points into, which leads to everyone ending up with basically the same stats. Tanks will probably differ from DPS, but within each category everyone will basically be the exact same.

BUGS:
The unintentional cons of early access games. I expected a few of these.

Can't jump, but can get on different Z-levels? What?:
So remember when I said that there is more to getting swarmed than just dying a lot? Well yeah, the enemies will just push you onto themselves or terrain and move you vertically up off the map. It's impossible to move some of the time and you can't shoot them at all since you're on a separate Z-level, but since the enemies can hit you and they will kill you in the same spot until your use the suicide option to reset your position. This also assists players in completely ignoring fights all together. If you get trapped only by a few, you can get yourself pushed on top of terrain and then just bypass large groups of enemies to grab objectives and leave the mission with very little risk. This needs to be fixed.

Honestly this is the only bug I really even noticed, but it was a pretty big deal. Otherwise, this game seems to be pretty polished in that aspect.

SUGGESTIONS:
I'll say it again: I'm not a game developer myself, so I can't really say what they should do instead. But I'm going to anyways.

Power? How about overheating:
The power mechanic is frustrating and sucks. It'd be easier to and a lot more fun to just change it to an overheat system. The support abilities' power costs are virtually nonexistent, and it's not like they should have any when they already have really long cool downs. As far as basic attacks consuming power, it just looks as though the developers wanted to make sure people couldn't just spray their guns forever. Which makes sense, that'd make the game kinda easy. An overheat mechanic would take out the massive amount of downtime where players have to kite for 20 - 30 seconds at a time while waiting for a decent amount of power to regenerate. Managing your weapons heat levels is also a lot more fun (in a challenging sense).

Option to disable robot voices:
This is just my opinion, but they're really annoying.

I can't believe I wrote all that.
Good game, has lots of potential.

Dungeons & Robots is a hidden gem.

Gameplay-wise, it's a lot of fun. You get to make your own set of robots from various parts that you loot or craft and you can swap between them during missions. Loot is abundant and you can mix 'n match weapons. You even get to loot equippable skills.

Crafting feels satisfying, especially when you get a good roll, as items are totally random, and you can recycle the ones you don't want.

Co-op is where the game truly shines and you are actually rewarded for teaming up. There are also skills to support your teammates : healing, shields, etc.

Graphics are pleasing and are reminiscent of the late Darkspore. There isn't a huge variety of scenery or monsters, but since levels are randomly generated, it keeps things fresh. The explosions and various particle effects are well done.

The music feels a bit too quiet for this type of game, but it's good. The sound effects serve their purpose, nothing too fancy here.

Many of the issues mentioned in the previous reviews have since been fixed. The devs are very close to their community and listen to suggestions and bug reports. I've reported bugs that got fixed within a few hours.

All in all, it is a great pastime, especially for the price tag. The co-op is fun and bullets fly everywhere.

I recommend this game !

First off, I bought this on a 90% off sale, and i still feel i didnt get my moneys worth.
There is a lot of potential here - unfortunately, it seems the developers have given up on this one, since the last update was in June 2018.

This is a fairly standard twin-stick shooter. You can customize your bot with better gear, upgrade some bonus stats, etc.
But again, this has been ABANDONED.

WARNING: Game is an MMO. An always online MMO. It's not mentioned as a requirement for this game and should be noted for those interested. Game works on Vista, so that is a plus for older computer users.

I like this game quite a bit. It's an action RPG with guns. You can use special abilities based on what you equip like dashing for a short burst or an extra shield and like most ARPGs, it is centered around collecting loot. Animations are smooth, gunfire is great and the monsters are the right level of difficult where you can't facetank the enemies by sitting still or running straight at targets. Keep in mind I've only played two levels so a player may be able to make a Godlike mech during the process.

The game plays like WarFrame, where the player plays random missions with a primary goal and a secondary goal. There is an arena mode call Survival as well as Player Vs Player for those interested. I haven't tried them since I don't have a reliable internet connection.

The only thing I thought was annoying was the sound of the crystals being destroyed. They make a loud ringing sound that don't reflect the type of ballistic being used and the sound should one lould ding and an echo of glass shattering.

Altogether, great game so far but ruined by being an always online MMO. That is why I'm still recommending it even though I'm going to request a refund. I already have 7 games on Steam I can't play anymore because of them being Online-only games so not again, at least, not going to pay for an online only game again. Get it if you plan on playing the crap out of it with not intentions on playing it again years down the line.

Early access title which sorta worked around 2016, fast forward afew years & the stats ingame are borked, along with the steam stats. Abandoned ware! Don't waste your time, effort or money on this shoddy indie cash grab title.

This game is a waste of time.

The game is great visually, but that's about it. Procedurally generated levels have no clear sign of where to go while a countdown timer ticks down as you hopelessly try to achieve your objective. I see a lot of potential, but when I first loaded the game and was welcomed with a black screen and music, I was a little concerned. I understand it's Early Access, but at least get me to the start screen. I had to trick the game into working by messing with my screen resolution.

The devs seem to be quick to respond to issues which is appreciated. This looks like it could be really fun, especially for the price!

Currently abandoned. Hasn't been updates in 2 years. Don't waste your money

Last update was 2 years ago...