It’s a short endeavour, but it encompasses everything that makes an indie title great.

You will roll around, planning your attack and hacking everything in sight. It’s a brilliant, casual experience that requires no skill level. This is Roombo: First Blood in a nutshell. A clean house is a high scoring house, and depending on how accurate you were with the traps, you’ll be graded between S+ and F. After you hacked the bodies to pieces a la lawn mower style, you must hoover up the chunks of meat and all the blood. And by god, it’s an almighty horrendous sight to behold. Once you’ve done killing, you must do what a vacuum does best!Īfter you’ve finished being chased by the would-be burglars, and you’ve taught them all a lesson, you must eliminate their bodies and clean up the mess. It takes little thought process to win a stage, but this is one of its main selling points, its mindless gratuitous violence. You will set off sprinklers, charge sockets, drop ceiling fans, blow up tv’s, control showers, and more. This skill comes in very handy as it allows you to lay traps to take down the intruders. Luckily, the RVC is no ordinary household appliance he can hack other electrical appliances. One object of value is placed for each of these thieves of the night, and you must do whatever it takes to stop them. Each stage has a set number of burglars, 1 for the first, rising to 6 for the last. The main aim is to defend the valuables left strewn around each room. 3 bonus levels are also chucked in for good measure, which is very generous of Samurai Punk. You will face 6 levels of murderous tests en route to guarding your home. Your quiet suburban life is rocked, your house is going to be burgled, and you are its only form of defence. You are left on charge when a smash of glass wakes you. You control a robotic vacuum cleaner (RVC), yep you read that correctly a vacuum cleaner! It’s Christmas time, and the owner of the house has gone out for the evening. Roombo is a fun filled, gory blood bath that is laced with dark humour, and violence galore. Not to jump to the conclusion, but I wasn’t let down at all. I couldn’t wait to try the game and hoped that I wouldn’t be left disappointed. From the name alone, I knew that this was a team and a game that wasn’t taking itself too seriously. Then along came Samurai Punk and their creation Roombo: First Blood. There is something for everyone, and every genre imaginable is covered. I’m always amazed at what weird and wonderful ideas grow out of the brains of indie game developers.

Roombo game