Drone Sector PC (Early Access)

Keep your troops alive, complete objectives, collect resources and recruit engineers. Research better weaponry for the gunship and the troops. Drone Sector fuses the gunship close air support role with the drone’s observation and mission command. Inspired by the real-life AC-130 gunship and MQ-9 Reaper drone, it merges these powerful roles in a futuristic setting at Drone Sector, where advanced technology and heavier firepower enable you to take on more complex and dangerous missions. While not a pure military simulator, the focus remains on tactical planning and execution, with greater flexibility in mission design and weaponry.

Guide your squads as they advance through hostile environments to achieve mission objectives. Command with precision, helping them avoid traps and eliminating high-priority threats with your overwhelming firepower. Outnumbered by enemy forces in Drone Sector, you’ll need to maximize your technological superiority to turn the tide. During each mission, you’ll need to make strategic decisions about resource gathering. Send your ground squads into buildings or key areas to collect vital resources and research documents—but this comes with risk. Stay too long, and you may lose your squad to overwhelming enemy forces.

Decide when to extract and when to push your luck for valuable rewards. Between missions back at base, upgrade your gunship, squads, and weapons. Manage your ammo production and research new technologies to improve your chances in the field. The largest and most important thing that needs to be fixed is AI pathing, specifically for vehicles. On the friendly side, there are moments where they need to be babysat or readjusted, most often around bridges. APCs can glitch out and even teleport into the water, destroying themselves.

This isn’t too noticeable with miniguns, but once the 40mm or the 105mm comes into play, it’s infuriating. Some things are not perfect quite yet, but that’s to be expected from an early access game. For first-time players with no knowledge of Drone Sector, it’s easy to use the 20mm on everything and burn through ammo, while the more precise weapons, like the 40mm, are much more ammo-efficient. The infantry also moves painfully slowly, which can cause missions to fail because they don’t reach the extraction point before the vehicle runs out of fuel. These are just the minor flaws of a game still in development.