Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

2025-07-13
"XCOM game but it's Mario and friends with guns shooting those cursed Ubisoft rabbit creatures" sounds like something you'd come up with if you were an actual plumber that somehow got forced down a sewer pipe and had to survive off excrement for a week. But despite sounding like a shit game it's actually really solid? Imagine XCOM but Fisher Price. It's all simplified with big bubble buttons and simple skill trees and yet it's got enough a bite that it feels good to learn the ropes and then break said ropes. Aka realizing that if you dump every skill point for every character into Dash (free attack on move) and Overwatch (free attack on enemy move) means you have everyone on your team killing multiple rabbids on a turn, effectively genociding the little creeps. I had Luigi triple-proccing Overwatch with his sniper so much you would have thought he was the White Death the way he raining down death on the Rabbids. The story is nonsense and honestly I'd say the whole thing could have been cut down by several hours but there's just enough here to make it worth a peep.