Just random gibberish opens in CMD, much like DOS interface game

Apparently not even the dev knows what the ♥♥♥♥ this is.

It's just a simulation rolling game or a stat battling game. The simulation aspect reminds me of a game I used to play called Biogenesis but this game is much less interactive. I didn't understand how to play the game at first until I just start spamming the roll command and got a bunch of achievements.

This shouldn't be 5 dollars

Not a game at all, spam b with a number from 1-8, c or r to change the game around. There is nothing else to do. Look at numbers go up and down I guess? It's just pathetic.

It really feels like this was the first video game ever created. Not worth buying under any circumstances!

There is basically nothing to recommend this game. It might've been interesting if stapled to its successor, W4RR-i/o-RS: Descent, as an additional mode that integrated with the gameplay in that game. But here it is, exactly as the Store description states: a nearly zero-player game that almost plays itself. This is not some secret game hiding behind a bland listing. It is exactly what it says on the tin.

I did end up pasting hundreds of commands (with line breaks) into the terminal window and watching the list of Warriors live, fight, advance, and die. It's certainly a way to quickly demonstrate to oneself how easily the human mind can spin a narrative from the output of a weighted random number generator (to borrow from xkcd #904). But once I got all of the achievements, I immediately uninstalled this game.

Don't bother with it.

Just crap!

Easily #1 in removing from Steam-Account.

What is W4RR-i/o-RS?

Well, I have no clue, honestly. Just like the store page says, it is a zero-player game essentially. It is just machines or warriors or whatever fighting against each other, as well as time passing. The screenshots on the store page show you the entire game.

The game gives too few information to really be interesting, but it gives fast 100 percent achievements about which you have almost no influence. You fight until power over 9000 is reached, you pass time ("change") until the other achievements are reached. And that is all.

I don't know if there is anything more to the game that is not shown, or if it just a very basic combat system. But from what it seems like, the combat system is all and no actual neural networks are created or so.

Music... is nonexistant, other than a small jingle at the beginning. Dito other sound.

The game is entirely controlled with the keyboard, which means you enter lines of c and r into the command interface, and then skip everything else by holding any key - preferrably r or c as the inputs are buffered and the buffer is not cleared after the final command is executed in a chain.

As such, I only can recommend this game if you want easy 100 percent achievements. If you actually want to play something - or just understand it - skip this!

Recommended: No

What could be an entertaining game is just a bunch of lines of code with no goal. Not all that fun and after getting the achievements there's no point in playing the game ever again.

I have love for the sequel, but not so much for the original W4RR-i/o-RS game found here. This is very much a glorified spreadsheet with no story, game, or goals. I know that is stated on the store page, and sometimes that kind of system works - but unfortunately not here. And on top of that, the incredibly rough edges are insult to injury.

Essentially, you are given a short list of 'warriors' that have a few stats attached to them, and you pit them against each other. The outcome is honestly boring and quite predictable. Each row of the spreadsheet is one warrior. The list of possible input commands is horribly jumbled most of the time due to the limitations of the terminal window in which you are working/playing (and not jumbled in any consistent way, either). Mixing that jumble with some of the artsy use of ASCII and it just comes off broken. You can choose two warriors at random to fight, choose two directly to fight, or make time pass which alters some stats. As-is, the Achievements are quite easy to cheese and most end up being an exercise in spamming keys. It's kind of a shame, because with just a tad more complexity combined with some clever Achievement goals, we may actually have something to work with here.

Pros:
+ I like the crunchy indie style

Cons:
- Simply not enough content
- No compelling reason to play other than figuring it out - which takes about 5-10 minutes
- Achievements could have been a bit more clever
- Rough edges galore

I'm glad games like this exist, but this title could have benefited from baking a bit longer.