EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

Every market we collect.

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.71/day in the week to Aug 10 → 1.29/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Hours played at review time, across 853 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

EDF4 is an absolute classic, but you'll find a better player experience in EDF5. Not 6, 5. Play 5 first is what I'm saying, then choose either 4 or 6 to continue your journey if you liked 5. The plot will make "sense" in either direction, not that it was ever born to make much sense to begin with. If you're familiar with other EDF titles, then my notes are that this one is significantly rougher for Air Raiders *on certain missions,* and is pretty friendly to Fencers with the dashing mechanics. Wing Divers and Rangers are just fine here. The enemy variety is nice and even if you've played 5/6 or even the ensemble that is WB you'll find some cool and unusual faces here.