Bacteria Battles
In Bacteria Battles, you play as a lone bio-weapon whose goal is survive a gauntlet of experiments and hostile bacteria that threaten to wipe you out. Utilize your quick reflexes and the food scattered around the petri dish to divide and conquer your captors!
How to Play
The game consists of rounds with 2 stages: a sequencing stage and a battle stage.
Sequencing Stage
In the sequencing stage, drag-and-drop the DNA sequencing pieces on the left into your genome. Each color of DNA sequence yields a different stat boost:
- Red - ATTACK
- Orange - HEALTH
- Green - SPEED
- Purple - GROWTH
ATTACK, HEALTH, and SPEED do what you might expect - they increase your attack power, health pool, and movement, respectively. GROWTH, increases the total available area to place sequences in and increases a multiplier which is added to each of your stats. So divide your genome up wisely!
Be aware that you only have so much time to create your genome - the scientists aren't very patient!
In case there is a DNA sequence you don't wish to use, you have the option to trash it, by dragging-and-dropping the sequence into the trash area.
Battle Stage
The battle stage, is where you fight against other microbes and try to survive the petri dish . Because this is an auto-battler, your microbe will try and do its best.
Your microbe can take advantage on the food that is scattered around the petri dish. For each 3 food your microbe eats, it will split, creating an exact clone of itself. But be careful your enemies can do this too!
As the experiment progresses without a resolution, the scientists will get inpatient and begin UV sterilizing the petri dish. Be wary as the ring of UV begins enclosing in!
To get a better view of the action you can click and drag your mouse to position the microscope lens about the petri dish and use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
Controls
Sequencing Stage
- Mouse: pickup/drop a DNA sequence
- Q/E keys: rotate the DNA sequence
Battle Stage
- Mouse: pan the microscope lens around the petri dish
- Scroll wheel: zoom in and out
Comments
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I like this game, it was fun making quick decisions and watching it unfold and then iterating on that.
I really enjoyed this game, it was an absolute blast, watching my little guy duplicate is great. and watching under a microscope was a fun idea
I am not really a fan of time limits, I always panicked.
Also I dont see a point. The possible upgrades each round are already limited by the size of the genom.
But thats probably just me not being able to think quick XD
Great game!