Earth Defense Force 6 is one of the most joyful shooters I’ve played in years, delivering mega-scale slapstick gunfights like nothing else while walking a tightrope-fine line between genius and idiocy in its design. It’s also a janky, rough-hewn piece of software with a mediocre PC port and egregious recycling of assets.
Need to know
What is it? A big, silly class-based B-movie co-op shooter on an enormous scale
Expect to pay £49.99 / $59.99
Developer Sandlot
Publisher D3 Publisher
Reviewed on Windows 11, Nvidia 3070 (Laptop), AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 16gb DDR5 RAM
Steam Deck Playable
Multiplayer? Online 4-player co-op, 2 players split-screen
Link: Official site
