[h1]See [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34168470-Trutek-Gaming/]curator page[/url] for more reviews. [/h1] Excubitor is a game that says it merges tower defense with with top down shooter, or even bullet hell. Is it successful mix? Not very. In Excubitor, most levels look like that: somewhere on small or medium sized map is placed Antares, your mothership. Your task is to defend it from drones - which take forms of various ships, mechs and other land units - using Hammerhead - your fighter and turrets. Turrets can be placed on few specific places on map. Sadly, they are mostly useless. What is wrong with them? First, there is no information about damage they deal, their range, firerate etc. Secondly, they are simply weak. While during early missions they can kill and heavily damage weaker enemies on their own, with later missions and higher difficulties, with more and stronger enemies, they become more and more useless. Theoretically they can be upgraded, but there is pro...

Lacks the diversity of mechanics that is essential to the tower defense genre. Only three upgrade levels per weapon, and only two weapon slots leaves the player with a feeling of disconnection from excitement. Towers can only be placed in specific locations, often lacking strategic value and drawing out excessive effort for almost no payout.

I was intrigued by the concept of this game, but ultimately found it repetitive and very difficult even on the normal setting. It didn't really bring anything NEW to the table. I returned it for a refund.

Excubitor seems to be a fusion of Steel Storm and Defense Grid. Sadly, the tower defense part is very shallow, and one you will need to place and forget early in most missions. Unfortunately for the other part, the game has not learned from the problems Steel Storm had, and quickly becomes a frustrating dash between objectives and your mother ship trying to cover for your inadequate turret defense. Wile upgrading turrets would seem to be the answer, it becomes obvious by the first boss fight that it won’t work. The turrets are sparse screen not a wall, and they end up ineffective. You can guard the ship or attack the boss, not both. BTW the boss has an instant death attack and hiding is your only option...except that seems to glitch out and not work later in the fight. It looked like a fun time, and started out as one. But I don't have time for this kind of frustration. Your call if you want to play this game but I'm moving on.

Wow, a great blend of classical shmup and tower defence. It's quite hard though, so it takes some effort. Amazing such a game was produced by a small team of devs, imagine what they could do with AAA money behind them :)

Frustrating and not fun.

Another bug riddled mess with major pauses and hitching. Good grief whatever happened to making classics like GRID DEFENSE.

Years ago it was not bad, but now there is a bug that makes the ship almost unmanageable. Too bad the game was nice.

I realy love this game played a alpha version years ago on the Gamescon in Germany