/vr/ - Retro Games

Taidama Wakusei Kaitakuchuu! is a Japan-only take on stategy games like Age of Empires, but heavily simplified into games that last about 15 minutes. Choose one of four teams, each one made of three color-coded robots, and set off to colonize a planet in seven days, planting trees, building houses, and interfering with the opposing team's progress as well. You can view the entire planet's surface at any point, scrolling across it to see your robots hard at work doing whatever it is you've commanded them. Games last a period of seven in-game days and are over pretty quickly in practice. There are also several different planets for you to conquer, each one with different terrain, weather condition and special features that will force to adapt.

The game is pretty cute and very intuitive, so it's not hard to get a hang for the controls and menus even if you don't speak Japanese. Multi-player is also a blast.