Battle of Rebels (2025)

Nope, it's unplayable. Don't ask me to be nice when you're charging AAA prices for a broken mess. Battle of Rebels tries to sell itself as a gritty, genre-blending shooter packed with tanks, drones, zombies, aliens, and psychological horror. But don’t let the buzzwords fool you. This game is a Frankenstein of half-baked ideas duct-taped together in what feels like a weekend project in the developer’s mom’s basement. From the moment you launch it, everything screams amateur hour. The sound design is laughable. Generic screams, random door knocks, and recycled effects that feel ripped from a free asset pack. There’s no atmosphere, no immersion, just noise. Gameplay is broken. Controls are stiff, AI is brain-dead, and environments are barren. The promised features barely function, and the campaign feels like it was stitched together from leftover assets and half-baked ideas. The game’s description throws around buzzwords like “Unreal Florida Game Competition winner” and “psychological horror,” but none of that translates into actual quality. It’s like someone dumped every genre into a blender and forgot to plug it in. Battle of Rebels isn’t just a bad game. It’s a cautionary tale…

why on earth is this 39.99 this should be 4.99 and go on sale for .49, however, the game starts with motion blur disabled so pretty good

I am glad that I received a code for this game, because I`m going to be honest, it needs a lot of work. There are noise bugs, the zombies are not challenging, the alien boss fights are a nothingburger, and the levels are really small. On the 26th of December I am going to have a full walkthrough for the game going up on my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@thunderducky4906) so y`all can see what I am saying. There is promise with the game as the guns feel good, the hit registration is good for an indie, and the Aliens/Zombies idea works for me... but there is a ways to go yet!

I could forgive a lot about this game. The weird door knocks with nothing around, the screams that don't seem to come from anywhere. Even the goofy bosses. The zombies spawning in the air for no real reason? The controls descriptions not just being inaccurate, but unable to be remapped, and the settings being inaccessible from in-match make the game largely unplayable. I even experienced zombies spawning in inaccessible places, rendering the match unable to be completed. It needs work.

This game has a lot of potential and a few areas of weakness, but I can see where the dev is going with it. It has been created by a single person so I understand that they are trying to do everything and put all of their love and strength into it so it will not be perfect straight out of the gate. I look forward to returning to it in the future and seeing how it has grown and improved in that time.

I usually support indie studios — I understand their limitations. I always try to find the good sides of their games. It’s hard to imagine a game — a product of someone’s imagination and passion — that has absolutely nothing good in it. Well… meet Battle Of Rebels. I honestly don’t understand how anyone could call this a finished game (no joke — it’s not Early Access or a demo). I don’t understand how someone can ask $40 for it. And I really don’t understand how Steam even approved it for release. Strongly not recommended! If you want to know why — watch the video... https://youtu.be/CUdwN2wZkh0