BeeFense BeeMastered Review for Steam

BeeFense BeeMastered, by Berlin-based developer studio, ByteRockers’ Games, is a cute bee themed tower defense game with a few unique resource management mechanics. You follow Nectarina, who is the Queen bee of a small hive; you have to help her and her hive traverse the land to find a new home. Using many types of towers you help defend the hive’s honey from many types of enemies from fleas to hornets and even zombies. This game features more gameplay than the standard tower defense game. You also need to farm resources, like pollen and nectar, to breed more bees to help you gather more items and defend your hive.

The gameplay and controls are relatively simple, you right click an empty area on the level to place towers, in order to place and upgrade towers you need pollen. You also need pollen to breed more bees and nectar to keep them all fed or they will be too slow to defend. After you breed a bee you then need to select the bee by clicking on the bee and then clicking on the area you want the bee to go, either a gathering area or one of the towers to get them to do a job. As you go on there are more resources you have to gather such as honeydew to research more upgrades and water for a power boost. The art style of the game is very cute and bright, it almost looks and plays more like a phone game rather than a computer game. There are many different towers and upgrade options, for diverse playability. While there is a lot to do, replaying the levels for more points is worth it but can be a bit tedious at times. The overall story of the game is fun and cute if not a bit simplistic, the main villain is Queen Hornetta who wants to steal all the honey. This leaves Queen Nectarina and her hive having to leave their home to find a better place to live, you travel through many different lands and encounter many enemies along the way. Overall, it is a simple but fun game that is pretty relaxing at first but can get overwhelming quickly when you need to manage so much stuff on the screen.

While BeeFense BeeMastered is simplistic and fun in nature, I do have a few issues with it. One of the main issues I had was a bug that stopped me from opening the tower building panel in the middle of the level and I’d have to restart the game to fix it, thus losing my progress on the level. While that was very annoying, it seems to happen less in later stages of the game. That one was a bigger issue because it affected my gameplay ability heavily in the beginning. The other issues I had didn’t affect my actual gameplay as much but are still worth noting. There is only a way to toggle sound buttons but no volume control, so you either had music that was too loud or no music at all, unless you wanted to turn down your computer volume entirely. When you get into it having more bees is great for resources but then there are so many to keep track of and you need to select them individually to make them do their job, or move them to do another job. You’ll often be left with a few bees who aren’t doing anything because they get lost in the other bees who are doing tasks, which can slow you down and make your defenses less efficient. Overall, I don’t have a lot of issues with this game other than the main bug I kept running into, which can be easily fixed in the future.

BeeFense BeeMastered is a cute and simple game that is good for people who like the tower defense style. This game also features a unique resource management system that adds more gameplay. That, topped with its cute but simplistic story, makes a pretty fun experience. Even if it looks almost like an app game you’d get on your phone it still has smooth gameplay and graphics. I give BeeFense BeeMastered a 7 out of 10 rating because of its cute and relaxed style, but the fact that there are a few bugs in the game that should be fixed.

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BeeFense BeeMastered is available for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch. Existing owners of BeeFense on Steam can download BeeFense BeeMastered for free.

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