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Air defenders

Air defenders

by Serhii Khramov, Dmytro Pohrebnyi, Illia Ustenko · Published by General Script Studio

★ 80%
Price $9.99
Avg Players 0
Reviews 15
Released Oct 3, 2022
ActionAdventureBeat 'em upClicker
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A minimalist air defense game where you manually aim and fire at incoming aircraft to protect your target. With stripped-down mechanics focused solely on trajectory control and no physics simulation, it prioritizes simplicity over depth. Best suited for players seeking an extremely casual, low-complexity shooting experience.

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▼ Not recommended 0 hrs
Air defenders is a very lazy, simplistic "artillery" game where you shoot a cannon at various aircraft as they move. You can choose only the trajectory, and there's no physics, that was probably beyond the capabilities of the "developers" here. It's more dumbed down than Flappy Bird, and the quality is extremely low.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.

Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop the music using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.

The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2022 (and this was released not so far back in 2022), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Air defenders has the pathetically optimistic price of $10 USD (plus another $10 USD "DLC"... aka a different background jpg!), for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games, let alone the sheer number of free games available on Steam. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
10 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ Recommended 0 hrs
Just shoot
6 found helpful Steam ↗
▼ Not recommended 6 hrs
Stars received: 0.6/10 _ Note: v.6 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions

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Game description key-points: This Gamash, a simple trajectory shooter

Overview:
potentially might worth using this to develop kids thinking and estimations, but not for anything else.
3 found helpful Steam ↗

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