My main issue with Defender Bros is that each match (on default settings) starts very slowly.
I would have preferred a more traditional wave-based tower defence game, in which completing each wave awarded currency which could be used to upgrade your defences instead of “running” (if you can call that slow shuffle a run) around the map between each wave, fighting the same enemies you fought before, and opening up the same loot boxes you have already opened multiple times.
While you can invest in speed upgrades to make your character move faster, the gameplay loop is still rather bland.
Thankfully, the wave-based sections are much better. However, they are nothing special. I have experienced the same (and often better) mechanics in other tower defence titles many times, and I found myself getting bored after just a few waves despite being a huge fan of the genre.
Image credit Defender Bros - Published and developed by Leonardo Delafiori.
I need to stress that Defender Bros is not a bad game; it is, however, a very generic one.
That said, it’s not all bad, as the art style is fun, the progression is decent, and character customization is not bad despite a near-total lack of feminine customisation options, with just one feminine hairstyle and a single outfit that could be described as “traditionally feminine”.
Come on, it’s 2024, Leonardo Delafiori; girls can be bros, too!
Ultimate with less repetitive scavenging, faster gameplay, more customization options, and a drastically lower price point Defender Bros would be a good way to pass a few hours.
However, with an all-time peak of just 47 players and just 11 players online at the time of writing this review, Defender Bro’s is a failure, and the developers are unlikely to be able to support it much longer without a significant uptick in sales.
Image credit Defender Bros - Published and developed by Leonardo Delafiori.
Defender Bros is a strategy video game developed and published by Leonardo Delafiori, it was released on 2 October 2024 and retails for $10.99.
Defender Bros is available exclusively on PC.
As of October 2024, around 100 people play Defender Bros on a fairly regular basis.
Defender Bros is essentially dead, and finding an active server is near impossible, and may require playing on a server with very high latency.
Defender Bros offers the following matchmaking options:
The following peripherals are officially supported:
Defender Bros is unrated and contains:
The developers of Defender Bros had a decent concept for a good game, and they did a fairly competent job of making that concept a reality.
However, it’s been done before, better and often cheaper, and while I feel that Defender Bros could be good, clean fun with friends, many other (better) games also fit that description. As such, I cannot heartily recommend Defender Bros when so many better games are available.
