Tedious but somewhat fun.

Solid foundation for fun but bogged down by annoying mechanics that fire off far too often.

Worth trying on a deep sale or if there's a balance patch.


The worst part of this game are the floor mechanics that keep firing off on a timer far too short during normal missions. It's not difficulty, it's annoyance when coupled with the unresponsive controls.

Moving a unit onto another causes the standing one to move to an unoccupied space. This is good in theory but in practice, misclicks leads to a cluster crap of units moving into damaging squares. This coupled with the camera being done in a slight tilt and game mechanics making zooming out necessary creates a small click box causing said misclicks. It all just snowballs into a better solution would be to reject user input when moving a unit onto an occupied space.

The constant bombing and fire left by said bombs can chain together in a way that there's no chance to stand on a capture objective. Bomb square > move out of objective > fire > wait > move on > instantly bombed again.

These kind of tight timing mechanics are fine on boss fights but it makes normal mission nodes a tedious slog.

The fun of this game lies in the positioning fighting high ground/flanking defending objectives around waves while trying to get airdrops for upgrades. That whole loop is quite fun. The 'move out of crap on the ground' mechanics wouldn't be too bad if they had a longer cooldown. It's just tiring to play as it is.

The loot and upgrade system are pretty fun with new research unlocked when a new region is beaten. The fusion system makes for a way to fail upwards eventually.

This game can be fun but the clunkiness and annoyingly frequent drown out what fun can be had far too often and far too early in the game (the 2nd region).

Relatively fun. Aesthetic is neat and polished, genre blend stands out. I'd really call it more like. Tower defense with towers that move than RTS in terms of vibe, since there's not a ton of mid-round movement in my experience. The builds and mid-run augments and progression also seem fairly basic and lacking in synergies or robust archetypes. Meta progression feels fairly sloggish and important.

Overall, I would consider picking it up on sale around $10 with the current content. A big update that just adds enhancement variety and synergies would do a lot to extend replay ability. Definitely a game I would give a neutral to if I could.