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2024 · Supercell · Beat 'em up

Squad Busters

Build a vast collection of Supercell characters, each bringing their own special ability to the battle. Wrestle enemies with Brawl Stars' El Primo, or spray bullets with Boom Beach's Heavy. Harvest Trees with Hay Day's Greg, or summon Skeletons with Clash's Witch!

Released
29 May 2024
Platforms
AndroidiOS
Genres
Beat 'em up
Developers
Supercell
Publishers
Supercell
Modes
Multiplayer
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action
Country
Finland
Age ratings
USK 12
Languages
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and 6 more

About

Squad Busters was a player versus player online mobile action game developed and published by the video game company Supercell. The game was released on May 29, 2024 for Android, iOS and HarmonyOS.

The game was a crossover of other video games by Supercell, featuring characters from Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Hay Day, and Boom Beach.

Keywords

  • casual
  • stylized
  • low-poly
  • io game

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Squad Busters is a casual action multiplayer game where the player builds their squad of characters, called Squaddies, and battle monsters and against other players. The player can collect coins to purchase Squaddies at chests found on each map. Getting a duplicate of a Squaddie already in the player's squad fuses the two of them, resulting in a single powered-up Squaddie, while collecting a third of a Squaddie results in a Mega Squaddie.

Every Squaddie have passive abilities, called Traits, and a unique Power move which can be activated during battle. Power moves are manually activated and go on a cooldown period after being used, which the player must wait before using the Power move again. Traits and Power moves are unlocked and upgraded by leveling up a character, called Evolution. Hero characters are special Squaddies that have a different progression system. They do not evolve and are upgraded using Hero Points.

Development

The video game was announced on January 31, 2023, and then had a limited release in beta version on February 6 of the same year only for Canada and then ended on February 16. Subsequently, in May 2023 another limited beta (Android only) was announced which lasted from May 22 until May 29 available only in Canada, Mexico and Spain.

Almost a year after the last beta, on April 1, 2024, "many exciting new features" were announced for the future of the game. Subsequently, on April 8 of the same year it was announced that the game would be available in soft launch from April 23 in Canada, Mexico, Spain, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Singapore.

Reception

Squad Busters received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Pocket Gamer's Iwan Morris rated the game 4.5 out of 5. He described Squad Busters as a "good mobile game", praising its simplicity and graphics. He noted "if you don't like Supercell's style then this likely won't sway you".

Squad Busters received App Store Awards iPad Game of the Year.

Awards

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
AndroidBeta23 April 2024Europe · Worldwide 29 May 2024 · Worldwide 14 December 2026
iOSBeta24 April 2024Worldwide · Worldwide 29 May 2024 · Worldwide 14 December 2026

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