Space Mercenary Defense Force

I like this game i always like a good bullet hell/roguelike game and this is a good one! i like the option to choose where you put you turret I feel that's a cool little detail. Doesn't change the fact I'm rubbish at the game, but that's the glory of these games, everyone starts out rubbish. Here is my First Impressions video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptfo7OApC8w

Another VS clone but your in space. In terms of difficulty, id say its in the middle out of the vs clones out their, so harder then VS but not as hard as others such as bounty of one. Generic permanent progression, difficulty increases (you unlock astrology signs and you "equip" them, more you equip, the harder it becomes, but you do get a slight buff to compensate). Game has special challenge mode's you can do that disable the permanent upgrades. Everything is automatic. However it seems the fps is capped at 60 even if you increase the max frame rate via nvidia control panel. Multiple different ships to choose from, but it seems the default ship is the best/most balanced one (at least in my opinion). Game sadly hasint sold enough copies though to be able to put steam achiev's in showcase. Run's are done in 20 mins per it seems with a boss every couple of mins. Also has random events that can spawn during game play, complete them to get extra stuff to help you during your run, like hearts to heal, upgrade your weapons ect. Will easily find out if this is worth keeping with in the 2h steam refund time limit. Thumbs up from me.

This game is simple but enjoyable, and the weapons are varied enough to make for a lot of interesting ship build options. The maps are pretty same-y and there's not much variation and no real obstacles or environmental things to worry about avoiding or using against the enemies, and the enemies aren't varied, so this can be considered a "just barely positive" review. With more map variations and different sets of enemies on each map, this would be a "very positive" review.

Simple and enjoyable, but nothing to make a big splash.

A cute and humble little Vampire-Survivors-like game. Pretty enough, solid gameplay, lots of weapon and ship variety and such to discovery, interesting upgrades to earn, music is largely unobjectionable. A particularly interesting upgrade tech tree - imagine 12 branches but you can only activate 6 at a time, gives it more strategic depth than you might expect from a game like this compared to lazier clones. I'd easily put Space Mercenary Defense Force in the top 3'rd of its breed, if it WORKED properly. The game is good but in a mere 2 hours of play it has crashed on me twice, one of which froze up the pc entirely. My gaming rig might be 5 years old but it can play most demanding modern games just fine, this is absurd. It is a tragedy really, there is genuine good game design here but there is something functionally wrong under the hood. I wish it weren't so. Gonna find out if Steam will refund me on this one at 2.6 hours playtime.

The game is well polished, have alot of content, dozens of weapons all with their deep upgrades, unlockable ships and meta progress. The Dev also Update the game very often. Recommended game.