Hi everyone! Today I played a game called Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator!
First, when I think of a drone game, what comes to mind are those videos of people doing stunts and all kinds of crazy flying in abandoned building. This is not that. This is more of a secret mission style game. You're taking photos of people, stealing items, dropping off packages, and even doing assassinations.
Overall, very simple. You do missions, get experience, get money. Upgrade Drone. Do more missions with better drone. Repeat. There's also a race mode that you can do for money in game.
So first the good.
- First, know that this game is cheap. On Steam it's 1.19 regular price, on sale for it's release at .95 cents. So even if you only get a few minutes of enjoyment out of it, still pretty good.
- Graphics are good. Small hiccups but nothing deal breaking for .95.
- Controls, actually really good IMO. I use mouse and keyboard for EVERYTHING, and I found this to be easy to use and responsive. Would be cool if you could do all the stunt moves I see in videos, but that's not what this game is.
- Lots of Drone building options. The biggest thing to do outside of the missions is buy and replace parts in your drone. There's a only a couple parts and missions that require a minimum quality of part (like the grapplers, or body that can hold a gun etc), but for the most part, you can use whatever you want. There's skins to buy in game (not real money), and you also start with 3 drone slots to build different ones if you didn’t want to have to change them when you want a different style.
- It's very simple to learn and there's no lengthy dialogue or reading , you can mostly jump right into the missions.
Things that could make it better:
- I mentioned it's simple, which is good. In this case it's also what's holding it back. If you watch the missions, they're mostly go to one place, do something, and that either ends the mission, or you go back to start and it ends. A lot of them can be done in less than 2 minutes.
○ I would have much rather seen the missions have multiple objectives that update as you do them. So it feels more like you are doing something a little larger scale. Like go steal a package, bring it to someone, fight off people that found out, etc…. All in one mission.
○ Even slightly open world would have been a huge upgrade. There is the battery issue. Your drone has a limited battery, but you could have something where you have to land at a checkpoint and a friendly changes it out, or any other change to the battery to make distance viable.
- Even if the missions weren't expanded, give us the option to explore maps with no missions. I'd spend a bit of time looking around the city just to try out different drone builds, do my own stunt flying, and then maybe stop and shoot all the citizens. Just something else to do for fun.
- The parts you buy are a little weird. So you get a set amount of money for missions, and multiple new parts can become available each time. But, a lot of them don’t seem necessary. I couldn’t really figure out why I would buy a better camera, as I didn’t find any missions that said it needed a better one. Also, I first focused on the body, the propellers, battery, and gun, but saving up meant that sometimes 2 or more of another part become available. Most of them became pointless, as I'd just do another mission and buy the best one. It didn't leave with a feeling that had to work to save the money or give me the illusion of making choices of how to build it.
Overall. For 1.19, it’s a pretty good game. If they made the missions a little more engaging, I think it'd be worth 3-4x what they're asking for the price. Check out my Youtube review to see more of the game footage. Thanks for reading!
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