Drone Swarm

I played this game in it's alpha and beta stages, and this is my review after playing ~2.5 hours of final game. I recieved this game from my friend who developed it, I am myself included in the credits (in Special thanks), and I was told they would be happy if I made a review for it on my own. So here I am. I really like unique gameplay mechanics of the game, alongside it's simple, but engaging story. Some people say the game gets repetitive and boring, but after couple of games I realised that I often forgot about half of my abilities and gameplay mechanics, and after I tried to utilise all of them everything got much better and more engaging. Maybe you only have 3 buttons to use abilities, but then you have to realise every ability has multiple uses (when you draw paths differently, when you hold the button instead of drawing). I assume people who say it's repetitive only used Q to attack, maybe used couple of walls to defend, but nothing more. I like the visuals, I especially love background visuals (I am into space things a lot) where you have planets and everything, graphics in general look good for a game like this, maybe some alien ships have too simple design and they look weird, but that might be just me. Soundtrack, oooooh boi I really like it, I am musician myself so my taste is pretty demanding for soundtracks, but they did a really good job on it. Sound design is also really great, it fits the aestetics Now onto things that I didn't like... One thing that I do not like is inconsistency in damage registration, you have to draw your lanes precisely onto targets, if you hit only edges of them you deal almost no damage, which is logical, but for someone like me who has problems to draw precisely even with a pen it sometimes gets frustrating I also sometimes noticed that even when drones hit the enemy, they didn't deal any damage, this might be worth looking into, or maybe I am just too bad :D I also encountered some bugs, like when I won the mission but I failed at the same time, I got a cutscene which meant I won, but after it I got a message I lost and had to replay the missions, though I didn't encounter any bugs that would ruin my gameplay completely, and these are things that should be easy to fix (and they are also hard to find :D). I am planning to finish it, but I don't have that much free time (or I just play Escape from Tarkov with my friends lol). At the end I just wanna say: Thank you Tomáš for showing me this game.