
- 70/100
- Players1 rating
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- GameFAQsplayers
- 3/5
- Player reviews
- 87% positive725 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux
- Price
- US$4.48
Where to get it

2020 · Old Byte Apps · Role-playing · Strategy
Mainframe Defenders
MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - tactical retrofuturistic strategy game.
- Released
- 25 February 2020
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox One
- Genres
- Role-playingStrategyTurn-based strategyTacticalIndie
- Developers
- Old Byte Apps
- Publishers
- Mega9Pixel
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionSurvival
- Engine
- Unity3D
- Age ratings
- GRAC ALLESRB E10+PEGI 12ESRB E
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and 1 more
- Features
- Family SharingSingle-playerSteam achievementsSteam trading cards
- Time to beat
- 6.5hmain story8hcompletionist
›Story
Microlink Dynamics is leader in AI research area, who built first research complex fully ran by AI. But during one of the OS updates, most of networked units started to behave erratically, attacking everyone on sight. You control 4 prototype units left intact and help the AI to protect the complex.
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