Compadrone: Land Wars

Compadrone Land Wars – imagine a bullet hell with tower defense sprinkles… and then remove most of the variety that makes the genre fun. Enemies? Few. Weapons? Meh. Bonuses? Don’t get your hopes up. Controls? Sure, you can use mouse or controller, but there’s a reason every other game in the genre uses WASD – it just works better. Camera? Let’s just say sometimes you’ll run face-first into a horde because you literally couldn’t see them. Fun, right? Is it entertaining for a while? Yeah. Is it anywhere near Halls of Torment or Brotato? Not even close. And don’t get me started on the Steam achievements – grindy to the point where even achievement junkies like me are like: “Nah, I’m good.” Video: https://youtu.be/h7vyM2y5sMM

This would have been a somewhat acceptable Flash game, fifteen years ago. The player ship/drone follows the mouse and shoots at everything within range automatically. You can upgrade your ship but only by tiny percentages in a game that is not difficult to win. The opening levels can be completed by not interacting, and then by moving the mouse slightly at the end of the level to pull in the drops from the enemies that died near to you. There is no strategy. There are towers but there is no tower defence, they're just extra guns. There is bare competence here, in that I didn't encounter a crash in the eight minutes I played, but this is barely a video game and you should not buy it.

Good points: 1) The game has a nice pace to it. Doesn't take long to figure out how to play it. 2) I liked that unspent resource points at the end of each wave get carried over to the next wave. 3) The ability to build towers in an arena shooter is definitely interesting and there were times when I had to choose between spending my resource points upgrading weapons or saving them for later to buy towers. 4)I have played this game for several hours and have tried different difficulty settings. I think Easy is a little too easy and lacks challenge. Therefore I would say that at the very minimum this game should be played on medium, 5) I liked that resource points are not lost if your drone gets destroyed. This is really useful in later waves and helps afford better weapons and tower upgrades. Things that could have been better: 1) Should have had more weapons choices 2) Should have had more types of towers. 3) Maybe a tad bit more enemies. All things considered, I think the game represents good value for money.

Completely unbalanced and boring. You are so overpowered right out of the gate that there isn't any difficultly. It takes so much resources to buy anything you just stand around doing nothing. Also tried to lose on purpose and couldn't. The controller control scheme isn't very good. You don't move your drone you move the targeting circle and your drone follows.

This is a good game but one thing that could have made it better is that currently it is only possible to change the weapons on the drone when you win a wave. It should have been possible to change the weapons at any point, or at least when you lose a wave. I enjoyed playing this game for several hours, happy to recommend.

Gameplay is fun for a moment, but the camera just feels bad. When moving down towards the bottom of the screen the character moves faster than the camera causing it to be at the bottom of the screen moving in a direction where you can't see enemies. The Choices in drones may make them seem like there is some amount of difference, but a closer look at the stat changes show very little. The final ship unlocked is very similar to the third one you start with access to. The weapons seem decent, but the other upgrades are quite unappealing. Since when is just one item giving a 3% boost that costs as much of a weapon actually useful.

Initially I was a little surprised by the short (few minute long) battle waves, but then I got into the flow of the game and found it very enjoyable and ended up playing way more hours than I initially intended :-) This is a game that one can play several times, each time trying a different drone character and strategies. Some drones move faster, some have more weapon slots, some can take more damage. Once you create a game, you get to change the weapons on the drone after each battle, but not the drone itself (at least I could not find any possibility of doing this). The save and load feature is functional, it is a bit difficult to tell games apart, but the saves are ordered chronologically. Loading a saved game starts at the beginning of the wave, but you get to keep your resources, drones, and weapons. This then leads to my one criticism of the game ... we should be allowed to change drones mid way through a game. Even with this minor niggle, it is fun to play and something I will be reaching for again in the future.

A very enjoyable arena shooter. Whilst you do get to build and upgrade some towers in the game, I would not really call this a tower defense game. Game play is very well paced and at no time becomes overwhelming. There are a bunch of different weapons to choose and try from, the orange ones seem to be the best. The arena itself is not very large and is basically a single desert like landscape with some obstacles thrown in. My wife and kids also enjoyed playing the game. I am happy to recommend this game.

Absolute gem, loved playing it. Happy to recommend. The game mixes arena shooting and tower building. I think that is interesting because it adds an element of strategy. I played the game on medium and found it quite challenging at times. Overall I would say good value for the price.

This is a good fast paced shooter game without any learning curve as such. After playing a few waves I created a new game and noticed new drones had been unlocked. I didn't notice it at first but the drones have level requirements and you need to play a few waves to level up and unlock the better ones. The game became much more enjoyable after i switched drones.