DropZone

"Dropzone for PC is a Free-to-Play-Game that combines intense action with deep strategic planning and customization. Players control squads of three mighty war machines in an explosive 15-minute battle for…

90 31 March 2017 Free to play

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Action Science fiction

DropZone is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Sparkypants Studios LLC, released 31 March 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.

Verified 23 Aug 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What DropZone is

DropZone is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Sparkypants Studios LLC and released in 2017. It was published by Gameforge. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Sparkle Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"Dropzone for PC is a Free-to-Play-Game that combines intense action with deep strategic planning and customization. Players control squads of three mighty war machines in an explosive 15-minute battle for dominance. Powered by the Sparkle Engine, a game engine built from the ground up for competitive online play, Dropzone is the Next Generation of RTS." "Select your three combat rigs and their pilots, load them out and set them down in the Dropzone. Your 15-minute duel is about to begin! Use speed and strategy to gather as many cores as possible in the available time. Fight back the alien Kavash to earn cores and then upload them via the uplink – while simultaneously preventing your…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 13 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

DropZone holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 19 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.8 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and GTX 460 or better. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.

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What it launched against

DropZone launched on 31 March 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Quick answers

DropZone — frequently asked questions

When did DropZone come out?

DropZone was released on 31 March 2017 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Is DropZone free?

Yes — DropZone is free to play.

What are the minimum PC requirements for DropZone?

At minimum, DropZone needs 2.8 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM, GTX 460 or better graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is DropZone?

The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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