
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
Media
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
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Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.

