This is pretty sweet.

It's so cool how the drones as health interacts with everything in the game. Like you want to get more drones because it means more health and firepower, but then the enemy attacks become more devastating. The laser beam can take out half your drones if you're not careful because you just have so many drones to get out of the line of fire. And with the bullet hell circle guys, it's pretty hard to weave between their shots when you get too big. The shotgun mode it kinda handy, but it was still pretty tricky to use to dodge stuff. More often than not, I just ended up swinging my 'wings' into danger more than safety. I found rapidly spinning the mouse around in circles grouped up all of my drones in a small ball, but was pretty annoying with how much the screen moved around so I didn't do it much.

For an entity composed of a bunch of tiny drones, you don't feel especially maneuverable. I think I would have liked it if the player had a bit more momentum when moving and maybe a bit of gravity. But on the other hand, maybe the drones wouldn't really keep up with you as well as they do. And it is nice to see them in a tidy grid. Maybe I'm just equating it too much to Luftrausers which emphasizes zooming around and momentum so much. Maybe it wouldn't fit as well with the drone swarm.

The colour scheme was great. Pretty to look at and easy to read. The enemy shapes were interesting. and told you what you needed to know about them. You just know immediately the arrow-shaped planes are trying to ram straight into you. The laser beam charge up scared you every time it happened. It always elicited an 'oh shit, I had better be somewhere else' reaction. The art is pretty simple (I mean that in a good way), but adding them all together creates a lot of polish. Like the little trails behind your drones to really sell their movement, and how they puff up slightly when they shoot, and enemies flashing white and having smoke particles so you can tell when you hit them. I could probably go on and on about each little detail.

Man, I wish I made this game. The level of polish on everything is just crazy.

Loved this one, great mechanics, well polished and variety of enemies and upgrades keeps it fresh.
The lazer beam enemies were a bit op as they can target you before they're within sight, that and the upgrades outside of micro rockets and speed didn't seem to make that much of a noticable difference. Also seemed like the big boys could only be damaged by hitting their wheels.

Epic game! Don't know how it fits the theme tho. Love the swarm controls. Great work!

There's a lot to like about this game. It looks great, it feels great, the soundtrack is good and the core concept of using a swarm of one-shot drones as a reload mechanic is ingenious. I only stopped playing at 114k because by then I had 100 drones and a reload speed so low that my firepower was only limited by the amount of screenshake and overlapping sfx I could endure. So my only critique would be to add some exponential game-ending mechanic after wave 25. The raygun enemies were my favorite!

Awesome entry. I love the amount of juice the game has, the whole thing's visual style feels very Vlambeer inspired. I also really enjoyed the small detail of drones that just fired moving to the back of the flock.

I guess my only "real" criticism (more of a nitpick, really) is that I would've liked to be able to visually distinguish the player from everything else more easily. I found that when the camera really started to shake around and there was stuff flying everything, I had no idea where the main character was, aside from inside of this mass of drones, just so there was some visual center my eyes could come back to more quickly. Not really a huge deal though.

But yeah, great art, great game-feel, good audio, and nice simple gameplay with a neat visual catch with the flocking behavior. Just a really good entry.