Planet Busters
Planet Busters is a new single-player game from Slam, combining puzzle-solving action with awesome firepower and spectacular explosions. The mysterious Scourge have destroyed Earth. Now it’s payback time. With…
Planet Busters is an indie developed by Slam, released 1 May 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Planet Busters is
Planet Busters is an indie game developed by Slam and released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Planet Busters is a new single-player game from Slam, combining puzzle-solving action with awesome firepower and spectacular explosions. The mysterious Scourge have destroyed Earth. Now it’s payback time. With most of the fleet killed in the attack, it’s up to you and your fellow ensigns to eradicate the Scourge and make the galaxy safe for humankind once more. Use the tactical grid to solve puzzles and match rockets by color to trigger attacks on enemy ships, moons or planets. Deploy EMP measures; use missiles for extra fire-power; and collect power-ups to assist you in your mission – to defeat the Scourge. At all costs.
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Planet Busters holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Planet Busters launched on 1 May 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Mario Kart Wii and TrackMania United Forever. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Mario Kart Wii, TrackMania United Forever.
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