The first game from developer Pengonauts has been a hit on the Steam platform in the past few weeks."Star Aggressor" is a meat pigeon card building game that combines grid tactics. User reviews are all well-received - out of more than 1,200 comments, 98% are positive.On Steam, it is rare for a game to get such a constant positive review, especially when the number of reviewers exceeds a thousand.

The core setting of "Star Invaders" is to protect the earth from alien invasions.Players can choose between three operable mechas, but only one is unlocked initially, moving, attacking, or preventing incoming aliens from reaching the bottom of the screen by playing cards.Each mecha also has multiple unlockable drivers, and they will bring different abilities.

The game determines the outcome through several clever mechanisms.The player's only goal is to eliminate all aliens in each battle, but failure has nothing to do with health – it won't lose health when attacked, but add a negative card to the deck.These cards may just occupy deck space and disrupt hand combinations, and may also have more serious consequences.If enough aliens arrive at the bottom of the screen and accumulate "destruction value", the player will fail when the destruction value reaches 5 points at any moment during the game.

Players are given new cards when performing missions to defend the earth, which may bring new abilities or enhance existing abilities.Players can also upgrade some cards during the process, enhance the effects of existing powerful cards, or give weaker cards a chance to shine and heat.In addition, it can also be equipped with magical tools that provide unique abilities and unlock passive gains.

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Last year, "Star Aggressor" attracted attention - LocalThunk, the award-winning single-player developer of the independent game "The Joker", recommended on social media: "I tried the trial version of "Star Aggressor" a long time ago, and I knew that this game must be played after release."

If you are interested in meat pigeons, light meat pigeons, card building or tactical games, "Star Aggressor" is worth a try.Quote a few quotes from recent Steam comments: "Believe the ratings of this game, it's really that good..." "This is one of the most interesting meat pigeon card building games I've ever played." The Steam comments also mention that it performed well on Steam Deck.Unfortunately, the game has not yet been logged on to the console platform, but given the praise, it may be ported in the future.With the Switch 2 released in June this year, the game looks like a perfect fit for the platform.