Drill Arena

Drill Arena is an arena battle indie game where you play with a drill and need to beat your opponents the most times to win. This is probably the worst game I played on Steam. I only did it for the achievements with friends. The controls are shitty. The graphics are eye-bleeding. The multiplayer is broken. A well deserved 1/10.

Drill Arena is more Russian shovelware being dumped on Steam, this time at least it's not a pure 1:1 asset flip, it's a PvP 2D top down arena game where you can "drill" through some of the blocks, what fun. There's bots, too, which is handy because no actual people play this game (see SteamDB and achievement stats below). Because it's 2D retro pixel Russian Gamemaker Studio garbage. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this ham...

[h1][i]Drill Arena[/i] offers short matches of action multiplayer but is ruined by poor net code.[/h1] Six robot drills. Death match - highest kills wins. Go! [h1]Cool base idea[/h1] Premise is just fine: You choose a robot (fast but weak, medium, or slow but tanky) and drill away to kill your frenemies. Drill robot goes around and damages blocks and players automatically when facing them. There's just two power ups: health and super drill. Short speed bursts can be used with Shift. By the way, I played with keyboard but gamepad fully works. However, this starting positive note could be deceiving. There are two specific issues. [h1]First issue: Slippy controls[/h1] Oftentimes, the fights just become a drillfest where both drills face each other and the one with more health wins. Only backstabbing (possible with smaller but faster drills) can give you the necessary edge, as the drills are slow to turn. Unfortunately, the robot easily gets stuck into blocks. When turned, it ofte...