Abstractanks is a minimalist real-time strategy game with an abstract theme. It trades traditional base-building, resource management, campaigns and multiple unit types for fast-paced skirmishes and intense multiplayer matches with up to 4 players, where map-control, positioning, decision making and a little bit of luck is rewarded. There is only one unit type, however, these units can be put into different stances with different strengths and weaknesses. Randomly spawned power ups can be collected to unleash devastating effects and turn the tide of battle.
Just a great game for in between (at least for now, it's only the alpha), because it's very fast paced and the objective is rather simple. But don't be fooled by the simplistic appearance, this game has a lot of tactical depth and requires fast decision making. Using all of the available tools (power ups, positioning and tank modes) really takes a lot of training. This shows especially when playing against the AI. Even if you can clearly see that it is following a rather stupid greedy algorithm, if you make one bad decision it gets really hard to still win the game. Which is probably the only drawback this game has, once a player has a certain advantage it's almost impossible to turn the tides. Though this is the case with most strategy games and a well placed laser attack might be enough...
Great fun... Still needs quite a lot of features added but this game is quite entertaining.
It reminds me a bit of Astralux, Eufloria, Little Stars, Starlink and other games.. Hopefully the developer will keep plugging along, adding new features, and it will easily earn a 10 from me.