Road Defense Outsiders Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · Published October 10, 2024 · Updated October 10, 2024

Road Defense Outsiders Review, Protect vehicles on the road and survive! Road Defense: Outsiders is a game that combines elements of the ‘roguelike’ and ‘tower defense’ genres. Upgrade the towers and your own skills to be able to annihilate all the life around you!

Road Defense Outsiders Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
534.1MB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Own in-game achievements.
Graphics settings – scan lines on/off.
Screen shake can be turned on and off.
Five save slots.
Reverse tower defense gameplay.
You have to stop enemies from taking your vehicle that is driving through the town.
You can stop enemies yourself with a weapon but you can also buy defenses like towers and equip them with weapons so they can help you.
Isometric game view.
Cool art style and color palette.
Earn cash from completing levels and killing enemies.
Buy and upgrade defenses during the game (the game pauses as you are on the buying menu) aswel as collect money.
World map level select.
Excellent soundtrack.
Earn exp and level up to choose one of four upgrades each time.
Roguelike element as you get a currency that you keep after death and use it to permanently upgrade elements of your game from your health to the vehicles health, more ammo, shields, speed, etc.
Very addictive little game.
At the end of a level all dropped money comes to you.
Twin stick shooter-style controls.
Each location on the map has a different difficulty.
It is a lot of fun to play once you get into it.

Road Defense Outsiders Review Cons:

No tutorial.
Takes a few games to get used to it all and what you are supposed to do.
The health bars are not that clear to look at.
It’s a long slog at the start as you really can’t do a lot until you level up a bit.
A difficult game.
Shooting again is not great and is very clunky until you get better weapons and upgrades.
Your character looks just like everyone else so it’s really hard to make yourself out.
There is no downtime between waves so everything is done in real time.
No leaderboards or scoring.