Noobenheim News for Nerds 
If you haven’t heard of it, Orcs Must Die! Unchained by Robot Entertainment is a F2P online multiplayer tower-defense game based off the successful Orcs Must Die! franchise. It’s been in open beta for a year with mixed reviews in the Steam shop, but on April 19th it will finally release commercially on Steam and their website. The game will also release on PS4 later this year, but Robot Entertainment has yet to provide us with a precise date.
Along with the April 19th release date, a new head-to-head competitive mode called “Sabotage” will be available to compete against others in a PVP mode that’ll sure to spark the game up. Late last year, the team abandoned their “Siege” MOBA-style PVP mode after the developer explained it “just hasn’t worked out”. The player base was small and very toxic, and the mode took too many resources to maintain while juggling the core “Survival” mode. In this “Sabotage” mode, the players aren’t fighting MOBA-style, but instead competing on the same map at the same time, yet independently from one another, while using spells, minions, and bosses to hinder the other team. Watch the video above to get a better idea.
There are plenty of mixed reviews on Steam stating it differs from the original titles too much and that it requires the user to grind too much or pay-to-win. As a free game in the F2P market, that’s the most common method of money making. There’s even a fascinating psychology behind the entire market and why people will bypass the grind and pay to play an ultimately free game.
What do you think of Orcs Must Die! Unchained? Do you enjoy the play (and the grind)? Have you spent any money on this or any other free-to-play games? Let us know in the comments below!
