Within that time, you'll only ever be moving around in the one setting, with only the number and location of the invaders changing.

This game is very short, being completed in under an hour, easily. Also frustrating is how easily you can catch on furniture and objects in the environment - although again, this is kinda' fitting for the theme of the game, I suppose. It's understandable, given the way these devices move, but still a bit frustrating given the top-down isometric view the game uses. You rotate your puck-shaped vacuum, can go forward and backward, speed up, dash, and turn on 'hacking' mode to select one of the electric devices in the area to sabotage. However, after causing enough mayhem, you can also get a ramming attack (which I found to work very inconsistently, sorry to say).Īfter the robbers are dealt with, you're given a limited amount of time to clean up as much of the mess as possible, with your clean-up and how well you protected the house both factored into your score for the level. If you're spotted, you can easily be hunted down by the faster, stronger humans, and they only need three good kicks to take you down. A part of the joy of this game is trying out all of the different traps laid about the house to see how they unfold, and in some cases causing a train reaction as the distress of one burglar signals another, who can fall into your next trap. The main way you'll be shedding blood is by 'hacking' into the household electronics, causing lethal malfunctions timed to hit the intruders while they pass by - overclock the fan to cause it to spin off of the ceiling and slice into a robber's head, set off the sprinkler to cause someone to slip and fall, that sort of thing. In a way, this game kinda' plays out like Home Alone meets Skynet, with your tiny, underpowered device scurrying about the house like some sort of slasher movie villain just waiting for its prey to step into its next trap. There's a lot of potential for comedy here, and thankfully the game makes good use of it. Heck, just the title alone was enough to convince me, 'okay, I need to give this a try'. This is such a phenomenal concept for a game, my hat goes off to the developers at Samurai Punk for coming up with it. and then of course clean up the mess caused by its murderous rampage. Roombo is a Stealth game that places you in the role of an overzealous automated robot vacuum cleaner that finds its home under attack by robbers and quickly determines that it must kill to protect its home.

Roombo game