Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

 Switch
Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. COGconnected
    Jul 20, 2020
    74
    Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is a good game, once you take some time to learn strategy and tactics. The upgrades to your Priests also help a lot in the middle to late game, so although it starts out tough things get better over time. I just wish their were more variety to gameplay and enemies, and I was disappointed that exploration seemed to almost be discouraged by the unfair RNG-generated outcomes of choices. The great writing and characters will appeal to any player, but I think you’d need to be a Warhammer fan to love the dull, grim visuals. Check this one out if you’re looking for a change from XCOM.
  2. Pure Nintendo
    Aug 20, 2020
    70
    If the idea of a future with cyborgs and robots battling each other interests you, and you don’t mind a bit of a learning curve, then Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is probably for you. There were times where battles felt long and drawn out and even a bit slow. A few times, battles felt overwhelmingly difficult. Fans of the Warhammer series may have a better understanding and experience with the game. Overall it was a fun playthrough and should definitely be considered for your next strategy game.
  3. NintendoWorldReport
    Aug 17, 2020
    70
    There’s a solid game in Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, even if it’s not an environment I don’t want to spend any more time in. If you’re in the mood for a little sci-fi strategy and are cool with a game featuring heavy doses of faux-religion, then be sure to enlist in the Mechanicus army.
  5. GamingTrend
    Jul 17, 2020
    70
    Warhammer 40k Mechanicus contains a bevy of interesting narrative and mechanical decisions, but this tactics game is also marred by questionable implementations of those decisions. This Switch port often feels poorly thought out, but if you can make your way past its annoyances, you will find an engaging experience, filled with love for 40k lore. I hope to see more from this team, as their creativity and skill shows through with charm, even if this entry was not ultimately without flaws.
  6. Strategy Gamer
    Jul 22, 2020
    60
    Some neat ideas and a decent enough 40K romp, but as a complete package it leaves some to be desired.

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6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 20
  3. Negative: 8 out of 20
  1. Three_Trees
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. My main complaints:

    - It is a simplified Xcom with a Warhammer skin. I found myself thinking 'I could just be playing Xcom'.
    - No cover system
    - Cognition system and use of weapons requiring it feels poorly implemented.
    - Dialogue options and their consequences feel arbitrary, unknowable and and mostly negative. Felt tedious.
    - The final straw was as follows:

    I play Ironman only and after several hours of play started a mission described as 'easy' which involved putting down a Rebellion of my own troops. I got slaughtered and it wasn't close. I was charged by multiple techpriests with untargetable who more or less one shotted my troops and two shotted my techpriests. Apparently your choices in the narrative dialogues before that mission matter and impact the objectives during it - but none of that is made clear to you in the objectives list.

    One thing I will say though is the soundtrack is fantastic. Probably would have been a 0 or 1 without. Waste of £8.    … Full Review »
  2. boomatog
    May 25, 2023
    1
    This game was playtested very little if at all. If you have any experience playing tactical strategy games beating this game on the hardestThis game was playtested very little if at all. If you have any experience playing tactical strategy games beating this game on the hardest difficulty proves little challenge beyond the early gameplay. Late game your weapons and upgrades are completely unbalanced. Mechanics are very poorly explained, at some point the game even goes so far as to say "just try things out, thats the way a tech priest does it" - as if they know they have forgotten to explain parts of the interface. The switch port is a nightmare, framerates drop to 5 at points, game will just stop loading. Story is not well explained, missions are repetitve, maps are recycled, rewards are either ludicrisly under or over powered. This is an embarrasment to the 40k licencing. Indie publisher bit off way more than they could chew and either ran out of passion, time, energy, money or all of the above. Models are fantastic, glyph mechanic is original, the rest of the game is not good.… Full Review »
  3. thelonesoldier
    Feb 1, 2022
    4
    I have not experienced any crashes or other bugs. However, this is an inexcusably sloppy cash-grab port.

    First off, the screenshots on the    I have not experienced any crashes or other bugs. However, this is an inexcusably sloppy cash-grab port.

    First off, the screenshots on the Nintendo eShop are mostly taken from the PC version, and show visual effects such as dynamic lighting and reflections that aren't actually used in the Switch version. That's just false advertising. This version of the game doesn't look nearly as good. The Switch is capable of better graphics than we see in this port, so I'm guessing the developers just turned off graphical features rather than take the time to optimize for the Switch.

    The performance of this port is also problematic. It starts out okay, but there must be some kind of memory leak, because performance degrades the longer you have the game open. Play for a few hours without quitting and reloading the game, and you'll be fighting against extremely low framerates and stuttering. These don't make a turn-based game unplayable, but they do make taking your turn very tedious and frustrating. You can fix the issue by quitting and restarting the game.

    The controls are clunky and unintuitive. Sometimes A is the confirm button. Sometimes Y is the confirm button. When selecting a character's weapon or ability, you have to hold the right trigger to navigate the character action menu. If you accidentally try to attack a target that's out of range, your character will instead attack a random target that is in range, potentially wasting valuable CP (action points) or even throwing the mission for you. Naturally the controls can't be customized.

    I don't recommend this sloppy port unless you've already played Mechanicus on PC, love the game, and want a portable version despite the issues I've mentioned.

    The only positive aspect of this port is that it comes with the Heretek DLC included.    … Full Review »
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