Freaking Meatbags arrives on Steam Early Access

Combine DNA, create the perfect meat bag, collect your samples, and than get out of the solar system before the whole thing dissolves into the sun.

Freaking Meatbags actually is a heck of a lot deeper than it might appear. In the game, you’re cast as a cleaning ‘bot whose job it is is to collect samples of precious material from dying worlds. The trick it to get your materials together and then get off-world before the whole thing explodes since it’s in the neighborhood of a dying star. Fun!

Fortunately, there are these squishy creatures on the planets with you. Let’s call them… meatbags. And, being of the robotic persuasion and gifted in the sciences and technology fields, you’re free to recombinate the DNA of these meatbags into whatever you like. Mix races alien to each other, give them special powers, or just make them able to carry heavy stones and help you out.

Whatever you like really. But be warned robo-janitor, by night you’re going to be under assault by all kinds of vicious nasties who want to rip you limb from metallic limb. And to that end, Freaking Meatbags also has a tower defense mechanic.

There’s a lot going on with this one guys and gals. Including a Space Squid. Really.

• Fuse alien and human DNA: Create hybrids with special alien abilities by mixing DNA from two different meatbags. A human is useful, but a human with a rocket launcher arm is even more useful.
• Build offensive and defensive structures: Hold back the wild robot hordes with lasers, missiles, bolts of electricity and your very own personal attack drones. 15 unique structures to create and upgrade.
• Enhance your base with technology: Influence the battlefield and manage your base with nine different pieces of buildable technology. Need to heal yourself? There’s tech for that. Want to build drones? Tech for that, too!
• Motivate your meatbags: The humans usually do what you ask. Unless they’re tired or bored or just plain apathetic. Fortunately there’s plenty of alien biotechnology you can implant to give them a little encouragement.
• Robotic enemies: Nobody knows where the wild robots come from, but they sure are well armed. Eight unique enemy types that range from creepy crawly things to dashy explodey things.
• Boss robots: Three sinister bad guys to take out with your turrets. One of them has a giant brain. How do you figure it got in there?
• Multiple planets and environments to explore
• Four alien species to encounter, chat with and steal DNA from
• One giant trans-dimensional space squid

Sound good? Freaking Meatbags is available on Steam Early Access right now for the PC (Mac and Linux versions are on the way) and wil cost you $9.99 USD.