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Some of the character design is in fact so eye-catching that it’s kind of a drag how cluttered the screen gets during the latter part of most levels.

The enemy robots, in particular, all have face-plates like cattle catchers from old-time locomotive engines. If some of the imagery can be a bit on the plain side – stone castles and the same blimps you see in every vaguely steampunk game, comic or anime – a lot of the characters and towers are really cool-looking.

The game’s particular thematic approach is a blend of generic fantasy and smoke-belching steampunk robots. In addition to its surprisingly colorful take on steampunk imagery, the game includes some light RPG elements and even interactions between enemy mobs. Hydraulic Empire isn’t a reinvention of the tower defense game, but it’s a very well executed implementation of it.