Mech Engineer is a game with an attitude problem, frankly.
There’s an innocent 30 seconds initially when you think it’s just badly designed.
But then you realise that it is a creature of foul and labyrinthine purpose.
There’s a calendar which lets you advance to the next day.
Reading those sentences back, it sounds practically transparent.
Like XCOM but with extra robots, right?
Mech Engineer is nothing like XCOM.
It is like tying your shoelaces with a pair of scissors.
It is like doing jigsaw puzzles in a cesspit after the death of the sun.
I subsequently went away and discovered that yes, MicroProse is Mech Engineer’s publisher.
The actual mech engineering is in-depth and seems engrossing.
