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Arcen Games / Oct 8, 2013 / Indie, RPG, Strategy
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CompareBionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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This one includes drastically increases the graphical performance for the game. It also has a few bugfixes, and two new conducts: Shorter Campaign and Random Exos. Enjoy! Click here for the official forum discussion about this release.
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77% positive, 577 reviews
A good game, I like the main premise
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-24
I finally got it! I found the right difficulty settings and suddenly all the game-play emerged and it was great,
0 found this helpful, 2026-07-03
Badly programmed AI warbots have, despite being fundamentally idiots, nearly wiped out humanity. Tweak, upgrade, tinker, and futz with your robot buddies and take the fight to the bad 'bots in classic turn-based, simultaneous movement maps in this roguelike upgrade-em-up. A little clunky (why four robots that you can swap between freely instead of one do-it-all bot?), but lots of fun!
0 found this helpful, 2026-04-12
Similar Games: XCOM, Dungeons of Dredmor, and to a lesser degree Hack, Slash, Loot The Good: High level of strategy in gameplay Missions require a careful monitoring of line of sight and placement, even choosing which mission types to take on can affect the player’s success Humor is quirky and tongue-in-cheek, but always amusing All the typical fun RPG tropes are here! Hacking, converting an enemy, and...
212 found this helpful, 2013-12-03
I thought I'd put up a review for this really underappreciated little game. Developer Arcen Games makes wildly creative, deep, and eccentric genre-benders, the most celebrated of which is their asymmetrical space RTS/4x/tower defense, "AI Wars." AI Wars is clearly a great game, but somehow it's this one that I keep coming back to. Bionic Dues is Arcen's take on a "roguelike," but of course in proper Arcen style it...
94 found this helpful, 2014-11-04
While the basic formula for a rougelike strategy game is here, Bionic Dues ultimately falls short due to balancing issues, bad information management, and generally poor presentation. Walls of text and disorganized information are repeated issues in Bionic Dues — a problem that begins as soon as you begin your campaign. With no introduction, you're shown a screen with the portraits of four exos (your...
189 found this helpful, 2014-06-23
Basically, Bionic Dues is a rogue-like mix of rpg/strategy dungeon crawler with hi-tech setting, where you fighting ever growing hordes of killing droids with your own droid. War of the machines, basic "save the humanity from annihilation" stuff - that's all you'll ever catch about story. You can think of it as of another small thing for touchpads, but no, it's not that simple. Actually, it is like an iceberg, where...
65 found this helpful, 2015-08-13
This is a Simple Rogue like Turn based Robot Shooting game. There are 220 achievements but don't be scared by that since all achievements are available in 5 different difficulty. So that's actually only 220 / 5 = 44 achievements that you have to play to get. My end game record is 229 games with 10 wins and 3 loses to get 100% achievement. The Game graphic is not great but it's rogue like and indie and they did as...
76 found this helpful, 2015-06-08
Another gem from Arcen, highly recommended if this genre is up your alley! Bionic Dues is a turn-based strategic roguelike where you control four exos (remotely piloted mechs, basically), only one at a time but hot swappable, through a variety of missions towards a final showdown with the enemy robot force. It shines in all the right areas: intelligent randomization, loot, equipment options, a variety of different...
48 found this helpful, 2013-11-11
On first impressions when I started playing this game, I wasn't too impressed. The difficulty seemed all over the place, there were a lot of numbers and stats everywhere, and things were confusing. But, if you stay on and keep playing, you eventually start to get a hang of it. There is a bit of a learning curve here, but the game has a very nice tactical depth to it and can be loads of fun. Upon starting a new game,...
31 found this helpful, 2015-12-04