DRONE The Game

DRONE The Game
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Metacritic
55
Steam
56.391
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Our rating is calculated based on the reviews and popularity of the game.
Price
$19.99
Release date
1 August 2020
Steam reviews score
Total
55 (803 votes)

Experience fast-paced action-packed 3-dimensional combat with your own custom built remote controlled battle vehicles in spectacular SCI-FI arenas. Give it a chance: Try the Demo and see if you want to support this early access!

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DRONE The Game system requirements

Minimum:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 7 (64-bit and with latest updates)
  • Processor: Dual Core 2.2 GHz or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1 GB VRAM or better / Nvidia GTX 650 or AMD Radeon HD 6790
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 14 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Included Arena Builder demo is not fully optimized and has higher requirements (8 GB RAM, 2 GB VRAM)
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Etharian
Etharian

Game was sold to a cryptoscam company, and is dead, don't waste you money here. I'm only glad a got it on a massive sale.

InfinitePigeon
InfinitePigeon

Didn't play it much, enjoyed what I played. Finally decided to come back and discovered it was dead, abandoned, reduced to crypto horseshit. Not worth it anymore.

Wankovich, Ista
Wankovich, Ista

This Game is abandoned and real players are found very rarely online, The Early Access pitch is a lie and there has been no development for 2+ years.

Ath
Ath

I'd love to leave a postitive review, but please do not buy, devs Partnered with a crypto scam company, its only a matter of time before the servers go down for good

[Dr] VɪʀᴛᴜᴏᴜZᴢ-OPN-
[Dr] VɪʀᴛᴜᴏᴜZᴢ-OPN-

This game was really good, unfortunately it sold out to some NFT virtual land buying game, that doesn't even have this game in it (Yet), I checked. I liked this game a lot, but it's unfortunately abandonware.

Alien goAt
Alien goAt

I am one of the unfortunate early buyers

ThePhantomLegacy
ThePhantomLegacy

They gave up on the game. Could've been great

RanGo74
RanGo74

DRONE the game is a sci-fi arena shooter where you build a drone and test out it's power against other online players in PvP like matches where your team need to defeat the other team before they destroy you. You can use a variety of weapons to take down your foes going from machine guns, shotguns to even missile launchers as you navigate your way round the map seeking out your enemies.
Graphics- Does the job
Soundtrack- Alright
Audience- Teenagers or adults
Difficulty- Dependent on other players
Story- No story
Game time- Descent length as games about 10 mins each
Price- Its a bit expensive for what you get
7/10

Hoppy1478
Hoppy1478

The game was sold by it's developers to the known NFT grifters that are making Earth 2.

The last updates regarding the game were in 2020.

It's sad to see games like this with potential die and get used like this.

Alpha
Alpha

imagine having "Earth 2" somewhere on your games storepage xD

Corrupted Slime
Corrupted Slime

It had potential to be a superior Robocraft but got abandoned and we got scammed.

Earrape Bread
Earrape Bread

Game is dead, plz avoid this game for sure.

Parktown Prawn
Parktown Prawn

Never going to leave early access.

Inukai
Inukai

This had potential, sad to see this go to waste.

Turret problems
Turret problems

They abandoned it, much like their other products...

petezel
petezel

It was fun for a while but online play was often just bots disguised to look like human players. The game died a long long time ago before they even made custom ships in multiplayer work, which, in my eye, was one of the main attractions.
Very much a shame but whatever you do don't vote with your wallet on this one.

Addison1024
Addison1024

Could have been a good game, just got quietly abandoned. I would ask for a refund, but I'm outside of refund parameters, and this game is early access so it being unfinished and abandoned isn't a problem as far as steam is concerned (afaik).

Sporked Spoon
Sporked Spoon

This game showed significant promise in its early stages, and the main draw for me was being able to build and fly my own little fighting drones in the editor - with the hope of eventually being able to create land-based units with tank treads or mechanical legs.
However, development on this title unfortunately seems to have slowed to a complete halt: there hasn't been an update, not even a bugfix, in over a year, and there's been no word on how development is progressing in about 6 months.
They succeeded in their promise of delivering a functional drone editor, but even then a good portion of its features and place-able parts are unfinished, and at the moment users are restricted to basic cubes which they can cut into other shapes, as opposed to the totally freeform shapes seen in prebuilt designs. There's also the slight issue of players being able to min-max their builds to obscene effectiveness by just putting a bunch of wings or something.
I do still hope this game's dev progress picks up again, since I and a lot of other people have invested varying amounts of time and money into it. However, its community is still relatively small, and with the lofty stretch goals it has on its roadmap (more movement parts are the big things for me), it's looking to be a steeper and steeper hill to climb.

LEGITAMATE-DUST
LEGITAMATE-DUST

The drone flying sound has got to be the weirdist thing I have ever heard.

for five bucks its kinda fun, but not worth the asking price of $20.00

Indifferent_Simpleton
Indifferent_Si…

Its a fun 6DoF game.

Some good old school like fun.

NotAFriendly
NotAFriendly

Time to call it Abandonware, the devs have been silent for months and the game is in a barely playable state. Players have also abandoned the game.

Admiral Oink
Admiral Oink

Abandoned almost immediately after a sale.

XR-ZERO
XR-ZERO

I enjoy this game. I really, truly hope they finish it, because with a little effort and exposure, I think it could do better.

Daxy
Daxy

Game devs sold this promising game to a shit developer of the 'earth 2' metaverse. Don't bother downloading or playing this game.

Was so much fun and had potential ... ohh well.

jackharold10
jackharold10

After being dead for over a year the devs have sold out to a Ponzi scheme. Sad

Dr Kreuzer
Dr Kreuzer

I would like to play this game buuuut. Ever since the Earth 2 guys got their greasy hands on it, im afraid it would heat up my already HOT country, like being able to cook eggs out side kind of hot, into a FUCKING OVEN!

8bit shadow
8bit shadow

Abandonware sold out to E2 scam.
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Craftcoat
Craftcoat

DONT BUY

The Devs sold themselves to Earth 2

this game is now owned by a giant crypto scam

THE TRUTH ABOUT EARTH 2

Earth 2 is a black hole consuming money and hyperinflating in"game" economy

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMey9dfTtOHCN9rcdx2ZE26mfem01GbXl

CrackCat1970
CrackCat1970

earth2 AKA a scam has bought this game and have attempted too raid the D.R.O.N.E discord

Killerjerick
Killerjerick

Regarding the news of the Acquisition.

Well that news came as a bit of a shock to me, who, an avid viewer of BigFryTV and Sidalpha know all about the exploits of Earth 2 and how not only shady, but outright scummy they are.

More information can be found in the following videos:
(SidAlpha's latest) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPq9yeyCDE
(BigFryTV's latest) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4beOLXhWZ8

If you don't have the time to watch the videos, let me sum it up for you, Earth 2 is a scam, through and through, Shane Isaac is a con artist, this single handedly throws DRONE The Game into "shady and definitely scummy" territory, I'd advise you request a refund of this immediately and definitely do not purchase DRONE ever again, what a shame, as it really was a fun, and quirky game.

OKZIDE
OKZIDE

It was a fun game to play but unfortunately the game is now dead and also has been sold to a scam publisher (Earth 2)

shorturl.at/noOQ4 This video gives information on that.

Zara
Zara

What first looked like a promising game has sold out to shady NFT's... What a fall from grace, I'm removing this shit from my steam library.

pp2206
pp2206

great terrain editor and smooth gameplay

Ave
Ave

Shady scamming devs sold out the game to other shady scamming ''devs'' that are behind the piramid scheme scam called earth 2.

warbeatenhero
warbeatenhero

Game Dead and sold off. It was fun. Very sad turn of events.

DogMeat
DogMeat

This game was just purchased by a scam company, the one responsible for earth 2.0. Do. Not. Support. Them.

Sleepy
Sleepy

This is abandonware, (formerly) operated by liars and conmen. Avoid it like the plague.

elin_schmitz
elin_schmitz

Looked soooo promising, I spent quite a few hours in the Early Access version, trying to help build a great community-driven game... and now they sold out to a scammy ponzi scheme and it seems to continue to be abandonware at best (last actual update was a year ago) or scam at worst. I'm currently trying to get my money back.

Kitsune_Bot
Kitsune_Bot

Earth 2 can go to ****, this game has so much potential and now it's all gone bad.

My day is now ruined.

Jamespy
Jamespy

This is now officially a dead game.

This game is now owned by Earth2.

I cannot even refund this anymore coz I actually hoped that it will be completed.

These devs completely lost my trust.

"Early Access" my @ss.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

Cap'n mouse
Cap'n mouse

man I sure love it when after a year of inactivity a neat game get turned into f2p garbage, but this one got bought by some wonky crypto scam, laaaame.

Xcellorator
Xcellorator

The Dev team was bought out and the project has now been abandoned.

MimikGames
MimikGames

The game had so much wasted potential. At start it had a heart, soul and caring devs. Big battles in giant open arenas all created by the community. There was supposed to be all different systems and enviromental hazards. Now the game was annexed by Earth 2, a scummy company, the most important devs left quite a while ago. Now it's just a husk of a promise.

TL:DR Promising game, abondoned by devs, taken by a scummy company

Skillful_
Skillful_

Hasn't been updated in over a year, and has been bought up by Earth 2.

Willoguns
Willoguns

Apologies for any poor grammar or spelling, I am very a n g e r y.

This project has been long-abandoned, and has not received a single update for a whole year.
At first during this silence from the devs, we (the community) figured they were just trying to figure out some internal issues - however it is plain and obvious that the entire game and the involved developers are a flat-out scam.

DRONE has been bought-out by the developers behind Earth 2, an *investment platform*, for the so-called "technology" that the game utilises. DRONE simply uses a couple plugins from the Unity Asset Store, which is a massive and hilarious red flag.
Along this, every single developer from the development team has been poached by Earth 2 development, so there is literally not a single person working on this game anymore. I feel incredibly sorry for the people who really spent large amounts of money on donations etc. but this is simply a massive-ass scam :)

Again, I apologise for any poor grammar etc. in this review, but the reality for this game should be plain and simple from all the other reviews surrounding this one all repeating the same message: this game is a scam, a cashgrab, and a very deep pit full of lies.
I will be incredibly surprised if this "game" ever receives any updates at all.

Jiahstrike
Jiahstrike

AVOID. AT. ALL. COSTS.

This is not the robocraft clone you're looking for, nor is it the metaverse like the Earth 2 arbiters say that it is. All potential this game had is gone when they abandoned it and bought by Earth 2.

The Invasion by delusional crypto bros who promises you the literal earth, while at the same time having a buggy mess of a website that calls buying tiles on a jpeg of google maps with real money an investment opportunity, and letting script kiddies run amok with their hackerman skills by spiking their profile description with XSS attacks, made sure this abandonware will never see the light of day. This game has been sacrificed as a tech demo for their own project, as some kind of "PVP battle" that is supposedly going to be a feature in Earth 2.

If you can't make your own game, just yoink an already existing one, kick the original devs off their own discord, grab all the IPs, and call it your own.

Expect the "cryptocurrency", NFTs, and whatever bs "play-to-earn opportunity" updates coming in next that make sure to deprive this game from any kind of fun.

I've seen robocraft's slow decline into obscurity, which is very tragic since it holds a special place in my heart, and the main reason I've been interested in this project for a good while. Never in my life would I see an even more tragic death of a potentially amazing game because of a very irresponsible company, before it even came out of Early Access.

It's such a shame because the game itself is all the things that I want in a sandbox fighter game. Its builder feature is pretty much robocraft, but with only drones and different things to worry about. You can even build your own maps which is a huge plus in my book. Although the gameplay is very different especially with how the controls are very hard to grasp at first, it pays off with its very flashy and explosive visual/sound effects which makes you truly feel the full experience of a futuristic drone battles. Although the menu throws you instantly into battle, and the balance was non-existent, that's pretty much expected from an early access. I might not have the best playtime but I enjoyed every second of it, and was planning to get into this game again in the future when it's more polished. Not anymore.

TL;DR, It's a ball of pure potential and amazement completely abandoned by its original devs and ruined by a grubby handed scam investment company who don't even have the basic security measures for their websites, just so they can have a tech demo on "what they're currently developing" and turn it as a part of their shady practices.

Saitech
Saitech

Thankfully I got this for cheap a while back, It's not been updated in over a year and I hear it now has ties to Earth 2. Stay well away from this!

DaBowMasta
DaBowMasta

Devs made a great EA game to build on with awesome 6D combat arena and great drone building but they started to work with the SCAM Earth 2 and want to release it as ftp within it.

I really don't get it.
It is a loud and clear F**K You to the face of people who bought the game.

Don't buy. And to the devs: F**k you too.

Eraqus
Eraqus

Game abandonned by the devs.
Stay away.

notupinhurr
notupinhurr

Game was a cash grab by the developers, this Early Access is never going to move forward, and devs like this are why early access games get such bad reputations.

Me, I'm Counting
Me, I'm Counting

Got it for $5 and had fun for a weekend, but it was clear it needed work.

Check back a year later to see how it's doing and there hasn't been a bit of progress since I played.

Wish I could get that $5 back now.

pelios
pelios

its awesome. game ahead of its time

A non interested Virus
A non interest…

I bought this game thinking it would be great to see it grow and develop over time. However, due to the lack of communication between the developers and the community, my hopes for the this game's success quickly faded. The game has been bought by Earth 2 not too long ago and I can imagine that there's nothing going to change or maybe it will get even worse than it already is. I recommend not buying this game and play other games such as Robocraft, which has been more active in the last week than this game since it became playable.

v
v

Used to be a very cool but underwhelming in development game.
Now it has been sold to a pyramid scheme scam company.

Do not buy this

Supernewb38
Supernewb38

the game has been abandoned in favour of some shitty crypto scam called earth 2

BwareLoL
BwareLoL

DO NOT BUY. Like others have mentioned. It is trash now and so are the hopes of a good game. Also, they screwed everyone who bought the game over. Avoid Devs at all cost.

SecOps
SecOps

Stars received: 3.8/10 _ Note: v.6 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions

[0.6] Controls & Training & Help
[0.5] Menu & Settings
[0.4] Sound & Music
[0.4] Graphics
[0.4] Game Design
[0] Game Story
[0.3] Game Content
[0.3] Completion time (level/game)?
[0.2] is it Enjoyable & Fun?
[0.2] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again)
[0.5] BONUS point: Multi-Player related
[0] BONUS point: Review for VR
[N] - if Registration is required with providing PII
[No = Categorical] - is it acceptable to Play the Game in 2022+ ?

Game description key-points: empty and simple PvP prototype, soon to be a F2P game ;)

Overview:

Earth2, the upcoming metaverse platform which created a digital twin of the real earth, has announced the acquisition of a PVP game titled ‘Drone the Game’.

The acquisition will enable earth2 to integrate the core components of the Drone game including Arena and vehicle editors into earth2’s unity-driven metaverse platform.

The future plans
The drone game would be customized for Earth2 and it would be available for free inside Earth2 metaverse.
The game is expected to be available for play in early-mid 2022.
The real advantage for Earth2 (by this acquisition) is the ability to integrate the arena and vehicle builders into Earth2.

Polysorbate42
Polysorbate42

Development has ended due to the studio being taken over by NFT fraudsters but they're still here trying to sell it.

CHOO CHOO
CHOO CHOO

Development seems to have stalled.

Fish
Fish

The game is like Robocraft, but the fundamentals of gameplay and the graphics are crisper and closer to this-gen. However, the glitches are many, to the point that multiplayer is basically unplayable since one person on the server will always have a glitched bot that can shoot forever. The devs have announced that the game will be FREE TO PLAY, which means that the $20 price tag right now is 100% SCAM to get your money before they update. Oh and about the updates, they never come. It's been a year and a half since the last update, and every month or two the devs will send a message in the Discord server that iTs ToTaLlY nOt AbAnDoNeD aNd UpDaTeS aRe CoMiNg *SOOON*. Maybe some day this game will be worth playing, and if it gets a little bit of dev attention I expect it will be, if they ever have any time for it over the dev's other scam Earth 2, but when that day comes you will not need to buy DRONE anyway, given the FTP status, so DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

rockadoodlepot
rockadoodlepot

abandonware, fun concept and character controller. dont waste the money

Dwldjon
Dwldjon

this game got sold to the devs of earth 2 so do not purchase it, it also has not been updated in 2 years and never will get another update

Haddle
Haddle

game good, why people say bad?

Keyboard Warrior
Keyboard Warrior

Promising concept but last major update was two years ago

Abandoned

kmflinch
kmflinch

LINUX USERS
This game runs without any issues on proton, but the demo doesn't.

Great game with a way more advanced editor than others in the genre. Still has some rough edges and a confusing new player experience, but editing and flying are top notch once you get the hang of it.

Sam_Hammy
Sam_Hammy

can you add the custom drones to the game

Ouro
Ouro

Game was good when I bought it. They made it into a hollow, soulless NFT scam. STAY. FAR. AWAY.

arcSolver
arcSolver

Had a lot of promise early on esp during its advertising + sale period in 2020, but it's now part of some weird metaverse/NFT thing. Barely updated and not convinced we'll ever receive a finished product.

David184
David184

Very disappointed to find out that the devs got bought by a company involved with Crypto and NFT (Earth 2) which is something i DON'T want to take a part in.

It was a cool game to play as i like 6DOF shooters with a creative aspect but i don't recommend buying this because the game's abandonware and i'm fairly certain that whatever new update would happen, it wouldn't be on Steam as Steam doesn't allow Crypto and NFT from what i know.

What a shame.

Elvarien
Elvarien

This scam has been abandoned. It's tech sold to earth 2, so from scam A to scam B.
Sad, had a lot of potential.

PastaBro
PastaBro

Got caught up in the big hype drive the devs pulled back in 2020 with lots of advertising and big sales. They then promptly ditched the game after a lot of empty promises. Major disappointment since this game was something I really wanted to enjoy.

Wilky926
Wilky926

Avoid like the plague. Nothing but a scam.

Vegeta
Vegeta

This scam has been abandoned. It's tech sold to earth 2, so from scam A to scam B.
Sad, had a lot of potential.

Ancalagon
Ancalagon

Wasted my money hoping this would turn in to something great, but nope.

lemmington
lemmington

it's a scam, even the description says this.... makes you wonder why you could buy it in the first place

Cvl8
Cvl8

I'm not mad, I'm just dissapointed.

Synik103
Synik103

Dead game, no development in over a year. Remember kids: don't pay for unfinished games.

Wooki
Wooki

Game development stopped a long time ago, really should have been refunded to existing customers. Such a shame as it had so much potential and the little it had was super fun.

PIECEofTOAST
PIECEofTOAST

I bought into this game because I believed the devs when they repeatedly said this game was a passion project of theirs and that they were going to see it to fruition, have frequent updates, etc etc. Well lo and behold they have now completely abandoned the project well before any of the game's goals have been met, and sold off their studio to a notorious NFT scam project called "earth 2", which is completely unrelated to anything this game stood for or advertised itself as. Feels like the devs used the community for funding while they quietly developed their engine tech, only to sell it off to the highest (or maybe lowest, in this case) bidder once their funding dried up.

Even if it's massively on sale avoid this, it's not worth it in its current state.

SilverHawk
SilverHawk

Battles, graphics and sound are all good, the only bad thing is that this is abandoned. I don't recommend buying.

owytheowen
owytheowen

I had great hopes! it was a brilliant game!

but now its owned by crypto and I am ashamed to have it in my library. more specifically its owned by earth 2, a horror of a scam among scams.

say away. please.

Shadow
Shadow

I bought this game thinking the core gameplay was fun and with the many promises the developers made had me thinking that even if the game was not worth playing in its current form it would soon be. Unfortunately the game was abandoned without delivering on any of their promises. But that's to be expected after they were bough by the notorious NFT/crypto project/scam called Earth 2.

Aleuvian
Aleuvian

A really cool concept that gave me Robocraft feels, but was ultimately abandoned by the developers and the studio sold to develop a crypto-scam instead.

Avoid the entire studio like the plague.

HurtMePlenty
HurtMePlenty

Studio was sold off for a quick buck and hence game has been abandoned, stay very far away!

Nith
Nith

The studio is done, the devs went to work on scam crypto/metaverse projects, absolutely nobody plays, and the most important features were never realized. Don't buy, you'll get literally nothing out of it. It shouldn't even be on the store tbh.

JRMWRFR
JRMWRFR

Devs sold the Studio and game to known crypto/nft scammers.
This game should also be removed from the Steam Store for violating Steam rules about NFTs, and violating the rules about early-access game purchases.

ironboy32
ironboy32

Development died after they sold out. Don't buy it

Vepr
Vepr

The game is abandoned and has been sold to a crypto scam.

Darth Borus
Darth Borus

This game has been sold by the developers and has been forgotten, it will remain in early access till further notice. Zero updates.

Myristica
Myristica

What was a game with promise was dissolved into an embarrassment. The game had no updates for years despite stretch goals being reached. Then, they sold it to a scheme that preys on uninformed victims, claiming that whatever small amount of new technology they could have made would be integrated into their idealistic "project".

The trailer still shows the same unreleased tech demo from all those years ago. They haven't even bothered to promote the game honestly.

I am ashamed to have spent money on this game.

Lady Malishun
Lady Malishun

fun game but it seems the developers have abandoned it

Djaya
Djaya

this game is a scam, do not buy it, it's just a bunch of empty promises that will NEVER get done, it has been years of pure silence from the devs, they even sold the whole project to EARTH 2 and everyone knows that they're scammers, honestly this game should not even be allowed to be sold on steam

Eel Launcher
Eel Launcher

Used to have a lot of promise until the devs sold it to crypto scammers after months of radio silence. Genuinely disappointing and disgusting for a game that I personally have been hyped about for years. I greatly discourage anyone continuing to support the developers considering their willingness to turn their back on their community for a quick buck. Shame its too late to refund :/

CakesLieAlot
CakesLieAlot

Its abandonware, don't get this game if you somehow stumble upon it. It really sucks too because this game could have been pretty good, and even with the little content it had it was decently fun. But we can't have everything ig.

epicpajama
epicpajama

sadly it is looking like its abandonware. tried it 2 years ago thought it was fun for a bit, uninstalled it, and forgot about it. Just decided to try it again today. But nothing new has been done since I last tried it.

jertlong
jertlong

Love the fast paced action and level setups, can't wait to see this come together inside Earth2 :)

Suros:/#
Suros:/#

It's abandonware. They've already abandoned the project they started after abandoning this one.
Tons of wasted potential. Keep your money!