EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS
Game
Game2024
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6
Developer SANDLOT
Live the future of despair.The year is 2024 AD. The survivors fought against the remaining threats while trying their best to continue their recovery.Three years passed in the year 2027. In a new world without hope, the time has come to once again resist the fate of the Earth. From the Steam store page
369 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
82
LovedLoved
182 positive · 40 negative
95% range 76–86%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 182 | 40 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 22 | 5 | 110 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
3,650 of 4,693 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 183 yes, 38 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 221 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (5,097 of 7,287 positive).
Players say EDF 6 is fun but feels like a slight upgrade to EDF 5. [1][2][3] Some reviewers complain about multiplayer desync issues and Epic Online Services. [4][5][6] The game is praised for its campy B-movie charm and satisfying progression. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
it installs Epic online service on your computer silently, nice try.
- [1]
Is it fun? Yes. EDF as a concept has always been fun, and this is no exception. Is it put together well? God no. Absolutely not. Jesus Christ no. The gameplay pacing is terrible, with many missions requiring you to wait for dialogue from NPCs for upwards of 3 minutes before you can even start playing the map. What happens when you die? You get to hear that dialogue again. And again. Higher difficulties? Hear it …
- [7]
A wise man once described this game: "Imagine being a foot soldier, in a poorly dubbed 1960s Godzilla movie that somehow melded with Starship Troopers, while tripping on hallucinogenic drugs. Yeah, it's that awesome."
- [9]
This game is the perfect "I just wanna turn off my brain and have a blast". Best game for customization, destruction, and multiplayer. Its slow at first but man its so rewarding starting with 200 health and shooting seemingly blanks dealing 1.7 damage to 150 missions later having 2,000+ health shooting planet cannons that do 45,000 damage while flying around the map at Mach 2.
- [2]
Its basically EDF 5 but so much more and everyone is a lobotomite "It looks just like us!" and its a frog
Summarised from 34 of the 365 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 sits at 82% positive across 222 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 369 · most liked firstYour PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for August: 🐉 Mortal Kombat 1 🕸️ Marvel’s Spider-Man 🏄 Sword of the Sea 👾 Earth Defense Force 6 …and more, all available Aug 19. Full details: play.st/4mEVt3N
neutral · AI labelView post →PS+ Extra August lineup: blog.playstation.com/2025/08/13/p... -Mortal Kombat 1 -Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (PS5) / GOTY (PS4) -Sword of the Sea -Earth Defense Force 6 -Unicorn Overlord -Atelier Ryza 3 Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key -Indika -Harold Halibut -Coral Island
neutral · AI labelView post →yeah that sounds meaningful when you put it in abstract terms, but "that's my emotional support video about Earth Defense Force 6" is kind of a ridiculous argument? much less "that's my emotional support sponsorship, five ad breaks, and two book deals."
neutral · AI labelView post →PS Plus Game Catalog | August 2025 ▪️Mortal Kombat 1 ▪️Marvel’s Spider-Man ▪️Sword of the Sea ▪️Earth Defense Force 6 ▪️Unicorn Overlord ▪️Atelier Ryza 3 ▪️Indika ▪️Harold Halibut ▪️Coral Island PS Premium Classics ▪️Resident Evil 2 ▪️Resident Evil 3: Nemesis ➡️ blog.playstation.com/2025/08/13/p... #PS5
neutral · AI labelView post →it installs Epic online service on your computer silently, nice try.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Earth Defense Force 6 has some of the highest highs and lowest lows of the series. OMG I am so tired of playing the intro tutorial so many times for the sake of your throwaway "time loop" plot.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love these games, but i am giving this a bad review out of principle. This game should be 20-ish dollars at full price. Nothing has really changed about the game since the last game. Just different levels and enemies, which is fine, but sorry, you dont get to have a slight reskin and sell it for 60 dollars. Also, the devs knew they had an English speaking audience waiting for them, and they waited something crazy like 1 1/2 years to release this over here. They just needed to translate it.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Earth Defense Force 6 (Steam) is $26.39 on Humble buff.ly/1sChStq #ad $24.59 US PSN buff.ly/QQio03m
neutral · AI labelView post →absolute love the game however. the way you devs take decisions about 3rd party accounts in order to play online and make the experience worse is not understandable, first EOS then apologized about it and said " we are removing the EOS account bind in order to play online ", and you did it yet again... switch back to steam multiplayer api, even with people of my country i feel lag with this change made the game WORSE to play
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Epic is no longer required to play solo or online even if the steam page say otherwise
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE‼️‼️‼️ You can even drive the Kei Truck in EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6!
neutral · AI labelView post →'Earth Defense Force 6' has sold 600K copies. www.gematsu.com/2025/02/eart...
neutral · AI labelView post →Earth Defense Force 6 is $38.99 on US PSN buff.ly/493Dezj
neutral · AI labelView post →Potentially fun game completely ruined by desync issues. I've never played a game with desync so bad. You cannot trust that your teammate is actually at the position shown by the game and it's so annoying to kill eachother repeatedly by accident. The fact this has not been fixed already is unforgiveable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's so many games that came SO close to that list. Helldivers 2 is a gem. Shadow of the Erdtree goes without saying. Metaphor seems great. Antonblast funny. Great God Grove is 100% charm. Earth Defense Force 6 had me playing long into the night. Also yeah, 3 of my GOTY list are Early Access too
positive · AI labelView post →Earth Defense Force 6 sales top 550,000 www.gematsu.com/2024/09/eart...
neutral · AI labelView post →Is it fun? Yes. EDF as a concept has always been fun, and this is no exception. Is it put together well? God no. Absolutely not. Jesus Christ no. The gameplay pacing is terrible, with many missions requiring you to wait for dialogue from NPCs for upwards of 3 minutes before you can even start playing the map. What happens when you die? You get to hear that dialogue again. And again. Higher difficulties? Hear it again. Also because its a time travel game and you literally play some of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mutliplayer Desync issues that plague this game (none of the other EDF games have it) absolutely kills the fun of the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Firstly i'd like to clarify as there are a lot of negative reviews saying the online is broken and uses epic. IT IS NOT BROKEN, they ceased using epic in a recent update and it's working fine now. So why the negative review? The actual story and content of this one i felt brought the game down, they reused a lot of levels from the previous game which isnt in itself bad, but they have time travel in the story of this and so they revisit the reused levels so many times, and imo not enough…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5 was better imo. This one doesnt do anything new at all and reuses missions from 5 in really disappointing ways. I found 4.1 to 5 a better transition compared to 5 to 6. 6 isnt bad if you got it for free but if you're buying, get 5. Feels more polished and has a better price and less lag online
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its basically EDF 5 but so much more and everyone is a lobotomite "It looks just like us!" and its a frog
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Earth Defense Force 6 has surpassed over 600,000 copies sold. (Read more: Gematsu)
neutral · AI labelView post →PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August: Mortal Kombat 1, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Sword of the Sea, Earth Defense Force 6 and more. ow.ly/PnEe50WFlH8 PlayStation Plus Premium: Resident Evil 2 & 3 (PS1 Versions)
neutral · AI labelView post →Earth Defense Force - bad voice acting, bad gameplay, horrible story, bad art direction, poor framerate. People made all these assets and slapped it together and it was bad. Earth Defense Force 6 is 60 dollars
negative · AI labelView post →A wise man once described this game: "Imagine being a foot soldier, in a poorly dubbed 1960s Godzilla movie that somehow melded with Starship Troopers, while tripping on hallucinogenic drugs. Yeah, it's that awesome."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has terrible voice acting, a goofy story, and I love it. It's like playing a B movie.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game, and I like the series as a whole. I do think they're overpriced, but when on sale they're absolutely worth it. However I cannot recommend the game as it currently stands. Which is to say, it doesn't. After a year of not playing I fancied playing again. I downloaded the two minor bug fix updates, but unfortunately the game won't start. I've tried just about everything except for reinstalling windows. This issue seems to have been plaguing a few others who have made posts…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play EDF5 instead. Play any of the series other than this game which does not respect the player's time at all. EDF is known to be pretty grindy, yet the degree of that grind in EDF6 is so high, and not enjoyable! At least in other EDF titles it was fun to grind out weapons n' armor, here you better get 10k armor in order to tackle the "challenge" of Inferno. (Note: This requires an INSANE amount of commitment and time to get that much armor, even with cheats/trainers that pick up all items on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →'Earth Defense Force 6' launches January 28th on Nintendo Switch 2. www.gematsu.com/2026/09/eart...
neutral · AI labelView post →My rating is based off this being a sequel. I wanted to like this game so much, but there's just too many backward steps taken from the previous installment. Sandlot as developers are one of the most baffling game designers I've ever seen. In some ways their uniqueness works to their advantage, but the downside is that they don't seem to consider what their players want or like. EDF 6 has multiple missions where you have to walk slowly from point A to B to C to D, and these have ALWAYS been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Earth Defence Force has become very routine in the past 6 entries, essentially acting as small updates to each previous installation adding a new map here, a few new weapon models there, some new enemy types, removing some older ones - a cycle of repetition that enforces the same basic gameplay. 6 isn't any different and maintains that cycle, however I will say it's the most cohesive entry in the series so far. For those unfamiliar, E.D.F is a horde shooter that has you battling against…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →75 hours in. Bottom line? Not as good as EDF5. Which is weird since they basically just took EDF5 and made new levels. Those levels just aren't as fun. They also made the wing diver not really viable on Inferno difficulty. Mostly because you can't effectively use the most powerful base game wing diver weapons without getting the most powerful jetpacks locked behind the two DLCs. So you have to use weak weapons to avoid overheating your jetpack and you feel like you're not doing anything while…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is the same as thge previous iterations with a few tweaks here and there. It's alright. Nothing new. Reason for the negative is that it was released in 2024, it's now 2026 and the game still has archaic hardcoded keybinds. If you have a varient kayboard layout, you're screwed. Controller required to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You might think there's a redeeming factor in Earth Defense Force 6 despite it being a bad game, but it being bad is part of the draw, and it is bad in so many ways that will surprise you. Genuinely a game that would've lived on the 360, released in 2024 for 60 of god's own dollars
negative · AI labelView post →Glad to see that Big Geoff has given Earth Defense Force 6's narrative the respect it deserves.
neutral · AI labelView post →'Earth Defense Force 6' on Steam no longer requires a Epic Games acc for online missions. steamcommunity.com/games/229106...
neutral · AI labelView post →You need an Epic Games account for online play in Earth Defense Force 6 on Steam, and fans are reviewbombing the game. This requirement was also not made clear before launch. EDF6 devs are looking into making some changes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Love the game. Like all the new stuff. But the unskippable 'live' cut scenes...I just...it's kept me from going back and playing more. I mean it's not even a cut scene...it's freaking interactive cut scene. You can't walk away and come back. You must interact. The lunacy of it is off the charts. Please. Don't do this in the next one. I can promise you I will now be waiting to read discussions & reviews before I _ever_ but EDF again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In mission 117 a tutorial popup will come into your screen and it will stay there covering half of your screen for 5 minutes without you being able to take it away, ♥♥♥♥ YOU!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like it. It's EDF 5 but slightly better. Is that enough for some people? Maybe not, but it is for me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's EDF. It's bad voice acting and killing giant bugs, frogs and aliens. Great game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surprise #STREAM on #twitch doing EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 Tonight with @borisalien.bsky.social and @graveycat.bsky.social Please join us at: www.Twitch.tv/ryoku_7 www.Twitch.tv/ryoku_7 www.Twitch.tv/ryoku_7 #hailstorm15 #mamagen #earthdefenseforce6
neutral · AI labelView post →So every couple years an Australian friend and I get together and play through EDF in whatever form we really want to. This individual bought me both 4.1 and then 5 about 6 years ago and we played through those and had the best times of my online experience. EDF 6 came out a couple years back to some issues with the whole epic network system blah blah blah, the main thing was that I couldn't drop full price on the game at the time. I will not lie that it was a weird step forward for me, I am…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To save our mother earth from any alien attack From vicious giant insects who have once again come back We'll unleash all our forces, we won't cut them any slack The EDF deploys!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EDF! EDF! EDF! Going to chill out and play some Earth Defense Force 6. twitch.tv/twobitrabbit 🎨: @lizabel
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is the perfect "I just wanna turn off my brain and have a blast". Best game for customization, destruction, and multiplayer. Its slow at first but man its so rewarding starting with 200 health and shooting seemingly blanks dealing 1.7 damage to 150 missions later having 2,000+ health shooting planet cannons that do 45,000 damage while flying around the map at Mach 2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is broken online. Persistent desyncs with friends in different places and aiming in the wrong directions. Crashes. And they have not fixed any issues since launch. Do not get if you plan on playing with friends.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey, now there's video on here I can share this clip of how incredibly satisfying it is to collect a massive pile of items at once in Earth Defense Force 6.
positive · AI labelView post →EDF is a weird series. I maybe wouldn't recommend it to most standard audiences even if it was a great entry. And this one isn't the best entry. This game is made by an oldschool Japanese console developer and he is STUBBORN. It feels like a console game from 1994. It's not awful but the game could use some serious work in places. The Menus, UIs, level select screen... It's all completely utilitarian. I'm just going to be honest, it looks awful, from the time you launch the game and enter the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best storytelling I've ever witnessed. It'd make Shakespeare weep. Voice acting is so good that I'd want them to narrate my life in real time. This is what I buy games for. 10/10 no notes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely insane, makes no sense and cheesier than Gamera movies. just the way I love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dumb fun. Absolutely not worth full price. Wait for a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EDF games are basically like doing shrooms while on crack. It has absolutely no reason to be as fun as it is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most negative reviews will mention this is a copy/paste of EDF 5, just wanted to clarify for those that are considering buying EDF 6. This is far from the truth, this game has nearly 1.5x the content even if you discredit the 'copy' missions from 5. If you include the DLCs (which are now 30+ missions each!) then 6 definitely has over 1.5x the content. Even apart from that, visuals have been minorly improved, characters have several new looks as well as visual changes depending on equipped gear…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An EDF game, with the usual trappings : It's ugly, It's a grindfest, It's frustrating at times. But it's also a lot of fun overall. Make sure you install the lootmaster mod so you get all your rewards at the end of a successful mission.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nah, sorry but this doesnt do it for me. It feels like a direct downgrade of EDF 5
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kei Truck in Earth Defense Force 6 confirmed!
neutral · AI labelView post →netcode sucks (massive desyncs) and hasnt been fixed in 2 years, thanks sandlot
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →D3Publisher announced the updated Earth Defense Force 6․2 INVADERS FROM ANOTHER WORLD game for PS5!
neutral · AI labelView post →I really liked EDF5, and this one is really fun, too. I enjoy the main themes of the game, and I think a lot of the callbacks/references to EDF5 are pretty cool. I am not quite finished with the story yet, but I can tell it's going to be nutty. Edit: Just finished the story, and holy moly. Definitely one of my favorite games of all time, and I will definitely be trying to get the 100%. If you like campy sci-fi plots with insane weapons and a lot of gratuitous fighting, EDF6 is the whole…
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