Draft:Squad Busters

Squad Busters is an online mobile action game developed and published by the Finnish video game company Supercell. The game was released globally on 29 May 2024 for the Android and iOS platforms.

The game is a crossover of other video games by Supercell, featuring characters from Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Hay Day, and Boom Beach.

Gameplay
In Squad Busters, ten players race to accumulate the most amount of gems in a four minutes building a squad of fighting characters. Characters are purchased from chests using gold, which can be found through defeating non-player characters, eliminating other squads, felling trees, or breaking loot boxes. When a player obtains three of the same type of character, they are combined into a "fusion" character, which is more powerful. Most of the methods which reward coins also reward gems. In addition, players can harvest a central gem mine, which opens in the final minute of the match. Players are able to gain a temporary speed boost by pressing a button, and can also cast spells by collecting items.

Development and release
Squad Busters was announced to be in development on 1 February 2023. Before its full launch, the game had two beta versions: one available only for selected participants in Canada from 6 February 2023 to 16 February 2023 and another one from 22 May to 29 May in Canada, Mexico and Spain; both versions were only available on Android. The game was soft launched on 23 April 2024 on Android and iOS in Canada, Spain, Singapore, Mexico, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, before being released globally on 29 May 2024.

Reception
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".