Her training for captaincy takes her off-world onto one of the stations, to learn from the alien geologist lifeforms and fellow Growbots. One of these ex-mascots is our small protagonist Growbot, Nara. Kew is home to a small population of Growbots, forgotten mascots of a human mining company, left behind on this asteroid. The story takes place on the asteroid home Kew and its surrounding space station guardians. Growbot offers a very unique style, something I can only describe as “floral sci-fi”. A very tiny team with an imagination of galactic proportions. Growbot is the brainchild of a very creative artist-turned-game dev Lisa Evans of Wabisabi Games.
Wind: A debuffing type, it uses stat decreasing moves, and features light orange colors.Įarth: A defensive type, it handles protecting moves, and features green colors.Īlien: An ailment based type, it afflicts status effects, and features pink colors.Ĭosmic: A glass cannon type, it utilizes powerful moves that leave it vulnerable, and features purple colors.Įach type also has its own strengths and weaknesses to other types.The moment you begin this hand-drawn point and click adventure, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you’ve fallen right into the pages of an illustrated children’s book. Holy: A supporting type, it specializes in healing moves, and features yellow colors. Growbots: Battle Academy features eight types as follows:īasic: The most elementary type, it has well-rounded moves, and features grey colors.įlame: A strong offensive type, it sports high damaging moves, and features dark orange colors.Īqua: A buffing type, it uses stat-boosting moves, and features blue colors. – 1/1500 Growbots will be Glitched, further changing the color palette. Types change not only their playstyles and moves learned as you level up, but also their color palettes. – Once all types are unlocked through scanning, you can freely change their two types between a total of eight at any time you want. – You can have up to three moves equipped, learning moves from level ups and scanning. – When they level up, some stats are randomly distributed, but you can also use Reserve Points gained on level ups to manually alter stats. Growbots come in all shapes and sizes, and even those of the same species are unique from one another since they can be customized in many different ways. ‘Scan-Data’ can also be used to unlock new types and to unlock moves unique to the scanned monsters. Gather enough ‘Scan-Data’ and ‘Dna’, a resource dropped from defeated monsters, and you can incubate and grow your Growbot. From the weaker Basic Scanner to the advanced Ultra Scanner, use them on wild monsters to acquire ‘Scan-Data’.
In order to grow your own Growbot, you must use a crafted item called a Scanner. Anything from healing to scanners can be manufactured or bought from vendors for your use in the troubles that come your way. Gather them to craft items which will aid you in battle. You can use it immediately to take down your current foe, or save it for a future battle, the choice is yours! Crafting and buying items for battle!Īs you traverse this foreign land, you’ll come across a variety of different materials. Once charged, you’ll have an ultra-powerful Overcharge move at your disposal.
The more you fight, the more your Overcharge meter fills. Turn order is dictated by the agility-based ATB Bar, and once it’s your turn, you better be ready, your time to act is limited. Growbots is going to be a new spin on the monster-collecting genre, while remaining truthful to its RPG roots, and we need YOU to join us on this journey.įight in a real time Turn-Based combat system with up to eight party members against wild monsters and trainers alike! Quick decision making is key, as both you and your opponent’s ability to fight is determined by how fast you react. Couple this with Active Turn-Based Combat and Item Crafting to explore a wealth of possibilities. It features vast customizability in types, movesets, and stats which means no two units will be identical, and there is a great deal of importance to your choices. Growbots is an RPG at its core, calling upon the same mechanics that made the genre’s classics great. Battle and scan wild monsters to acquire new moves for battle, unlock different types, and build Growbots of your very own to fight alongside you. Playing as either Kenji or Lucy, you’ll have to venture out into this dangerous planet in search of your kin. Release date: In production (Early Access Starts January 2021)Ĭollect, Craft, and Battle! After crash-landing on an alien planet, you find your sibling missing.