Collidalot portrays itself as an interesting mix of fighter, multiplayer, and party game. Speaking in terms of pure genres here, it’s not really a fighting game where you punch or kick enemies. But, it sure isn’t your average party game. Collidalot sets itself apart by sampling bits and pieces from a number of these genres and shakes it all up with the addition of rail jumping, turbo boosts, and devasting apocalypse-looking spaceships. Collidalot is fast and quick. If you go too fast and you might find yourself shooting off the edge. If you are too slow and you might give your foes enough time to target you and find yourself knocked out of the arena. Only those who can survive the wasteland will reign supreme.

Developer: Grunka Munka

Publisher: Grunka Munka

3 Hours Played // Review Copy Provided // $12.50

Steep Heights and Low Floors

Collidalot is a lot of fun to play. For some, it could also be a sodium-rich experience only fit for salt miners working deep underground. The controls can be confusing at first, especially as players get used to the mechanics as well as the way ships move and boost. This raises the skill ceiling, giving experienced players an edge over their newer counterparts. My feat at times is that it can also feel like the skill floor is too high. Meaning new players need to really give Collidalot a chance and learn the ropes before giving up on it.

Painting the Competition

Collidalot comes stocked with three different game modes: tournament, survival, and paint. Survival and tournament game modes are relatively the same, with slightly different win conditions. The unique paint mode escapes the tried and true “battle till the death” modes and offers a different experience unique to Collidalot. Paint has you racing around the rails painting as much as you can while keeping your enemies from doing the same. It’s a fun change of pace from the rest of the game.

Reach for Glory

Your ships in Collidalot have from three different combat mechanics to choose from when battling your foes in the wasteland. Independent of your ship choice, you can use the tried and true boost ability to slam your opponent off the map. Each ship also has a glory charge attack, which is an aimed charging attack capable of knocking any foe clear out of play. Each ship also has its own unique glory special. Like bulldozer, with its super boosting bulldozer-like ram which is capable of the hardest single hits in the game. Or wormhole who, if skillfully timed, can adeptly vacuum ships into one side of itself and spit them out the other with abrupt force.

Limited Supply

People often say good things often come in small packages, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a disappointment from time to time. Collidalot only has three ships the player can pilot. I would have liked to have seen more, but Grunka Munka has said they are interested in adding new ships in the future. The family team and I will be eagerly awaiting this update.

Collidalot is a fast and exhilarating spaceship brawler if you have some people at home to play with. If you don’t, your time with Collidalot will be limited as it’s only temporarily fun to play against robots given there is no online multiplayer. Nothing is better than boosting your friends off the map with a well-timed boost or lucky glory charge. The shortage of ships shouldn’t deter you, as the game plays superbly on the Nintendo Switch and you can have a ton of fun with what’s currently there. What has me excited is the possibility of further updates, adding to the already solid, but unique, higher skill gameplay.

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