

Space Mercenary Defense Force
Tom Paradise · 2023 · Action, RPG, Indie, Action Roguelike, Casual
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Positive90% · 10
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About Space Mercenary Defense Force
Defend the planet from an invasion of alien monsters in this sci-fi action roguelike!
Equip your ship's directional module slots with various module types such as explosive, defensive, deployable, beam, & more!

Featuring over 600 upgrades with unique progression via branching paths you can make each run different and unique with your choices.

Complete optional random Encounters like fighting minibosses or charging a conduit to earn rewards and further level up your ship!

Aliens aren't your only threat! Survive the various timed threats such as Off-World Targeting, Outer Atmosphere Lightning, Pulsing Solar Flares, & more!

Spend your hard earned credits on new ships, skins, & permanent Astral Upgrades and complete objectives to unlock ship perks, and Celestial Modifiers!

Combine Different Ship Modules Each Run
Equip your ship's directional module slots with various module types such as explosive, defensive, deployable, beam, & more!

Choose Your Own Upgrade Paths
Featuring over 600 upgrades with unique progression via branching paths you can make each run different and unique with your choices.

Optional Encounters
Complete optional random Encounters like fighting minibosses or charging a conduit to earn rewards and further level up your ship!

Dynamic Threat Events
Aliens aren't your only threat! Survive the various timed threats such as Off-World Targeting, Outer Atmosphere Lightning, Pulsing Solar Flares, & more!

Permanent Upgrades And Unlocks
Spend your hard earned credits on new ships, skins, & permanent Astral Upgrades and complete objectives to unlock ship perks, and Celestial Modifiers!

What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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=Ptfo7OApC8w2 found this helpful
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.1 found this helpful
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.1 found this helpful
Lovely game!!!1 found this helpful
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.
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