Band of Defenders

don't get this game ever because the only reason that i ever got it was for the coop and that has been removed

Still selling this game is a scam. It needs a connexion to a dead server in order to play. Still selling this game is a total scam.

- abandoned by the devs - broken achievements - no playerbase at all - its a shame they still sell it DONT BUY!

The gameplay is pretty good. The problem of that game, is the progression is in lootboxes, which can be ok, but those lootboxes are generated by the developers servers. The single player, also connects to the games servers. Meaning you can not play the game once the developers close the servers, as it happened in Battleborn or Darkspore before. Add a few threads on main page saying they have "server disconnect" issues after bosses etc, plus 0 presence from devs, and 0 players online, and it looks like a trap. A game that can be closed any time. I own almost every game in the genre, and for example, Fortified or Orcs must Die (or sanctum or 12.300 others) can be played now or in 5 years. They do not require to connect to servers to create lobbies even for single players, or to give you the random loot boxes that contain the upgrades for the game. So even at 55% discount, costing 5e, its a big risk, so I refunded. Maybe if it ever is sold for 1e or so, and the servers are still up, it will be a safe purchase (as in, get some time played without caring if they close servers)

Good idea, bad execution. Wanted to be like Sanctum but failed at absolutely everything.

I wanted to like the game as much as the videos glorified it, but I just cannot even recommend the game even on sale. Game is a hard pill to swallow; the moment I booted the game I realized 2 great flaws with it. -Game CANNOT be played offline! CLIENT BASED SERVER! meaning if the DEV decides to shut it down you will be unable to even access the game! -Antivirus exception is real! Don't really want to troubleshoot a game when I boot it up the first time. And I don't really want to disable my AV just to find out what makes the game tick! Don't get me wrong the game is enjoyable to an extent but only if you had someone to play with. And if you can skip the fact that you: -Can't jump over your barricades (EVEN WITH JUMP BUTTON!) -Are playing a game made that feels and sound like halfmade UNITY content -See mindless AI running about -Loot box progression unlock (INGAME not real money!) -Lack wave prep options/pause/forward -Have extremely limited tutorial -Don't single player OFFLINE! [h1] TLDR [/h1] If the DEV wants to shut down the server, you are unable to play the game again. Save your money, go buy a beer or something to snack on.

My initial reaction to this game was pretty poor, the matchmaking had no signs of working upon booting the game and I spent a good amount of time, about 20-30 minutes, initially trying to use it to find a game. Co-op will only seem to work if you find people to play with in advance and attempt matchmaking at the same time as it seems the invite friends button is broken in game now so be warned if that's what you're trying to do, this could be unique to my setup so Your Mileage May Vary. I decided to just hop into the solo missions to try things out. The game bills itself as a co-op FPS tower defense game but it tries to push in an inventory crafting system on top of it. After you manage to start a game you get thrown into one of the game's maps randomly, no choice can be made about which one you get as far as I can tell, one of the games first poor design choices. You start your initial wave with your pistol and any perk items you've unlocked so starting wave enemies tend to be pretty tame. After you get finished the first wave you immediately get a timer that can't be stopped for you to craft inventory items that require a crafting time per item, which also deduct from the monetary resources you have and also to build defenses around your objective. The build phase in my opinion always feels rushed especially playing solo. It wouldn't be so bad if you just had to drop your build items on the ground but the menu is not snappy and there's a second upgrade item that has to be used to improve anything beyond its starting level. this wouldn't be as much of an issue if the barricade items weren't 1/4th the size of the turrets but they each also have their own individual levels to increase making it take more time to try to build any barricades than just dropping a bunch of turrets and attempting to defend with those. Let's talk about about unlocks quickly. you don't have access to much in the beginning. you get a crate after each successful victory and level up and they offer one item each. crates are divided into arsenal, inventory items that can be crafted or built after the first wave to give you additional guns/shooting damage and turrets, and cosmetics. the cosmetics are pretty straightforward but the arsenal unlocks show a lot of padding initially being placed into the game (along with the level/experience system). items are not just gated behind the level system but when you unlock an item you only have access to it's first 2 upgrade levels (all upgrades for towers are base stat increases as far as i've seen). You also have to unlock the additional upgrade tiers for each item which are again gated by your account level. once you do, they show up as an improved version of the item, but you have to build the base item then spend more time whacking it with a wrench to upgrade the traps further all doing the previously mentioned short time between waves. One thing I hadn't mentioned previously is towers are destructible, by pretty much any enemy. They don't have much health either so they go down in a few hits and this speeds up with the tier of difficulty you've selected. All in all Band of Defenders is just OK. On top of it's rather basic controls it suffers from a lot of early gameplay padding, and a lack of quality of life features that could make it a much better experience for people playing solo or just learning the game. If it had the care and attention it needed through updates it could become a much better game because there's an ok tower defense shooter under most of the gripes i've listed and it could be a blast with a bunch of likeminded friends.