Earth Defense Force 6 (2022)

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Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5

3.67 from 12 ratings

88 members have it in their collection · 29 backlogged · 17 wish listed

How long? Main story 35h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Earth Defense Force 6 is the sixth main entry in the Earth Defense Force series and the direct sequel to Earth Defense Force 5, picking up three years after that game left off. EDF 6 is set on a dying Earth where the alien Primer civilization invades once again.
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Release dates

  • Aug 25, 2022 (Japan) PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
  • Jul 25, 2024 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
  • Q4 2026 (Japan) Nintendo Switch 2

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Jace

Status Jace Jul 23, 2025

After months of working at it, me and my older brother completed the base game. Because we don't play many "completeable" multiplayer games, this would mark the third game we've beaten together alongside Toy Story 3 and Cuphead, and the first we beat together remotely. We had a great time!

Every moving part of the game is infused with …

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After months of working at it, me and my older brother completed the base game. Because we don't play many "completeable" multiplayer games, this would mark the third game we've beaten together alongside Toy Story 3 and Cuphead, and the first we beat together remotely. We had a great time!

Every moving part of the game is infused with all the hallmark idiosyncracies of the franchise at maximum power and I love it for that: the loot loop, the radio drama-style script that plays out like an almost completely incoherent fever dream, the gameplay fundamentals with a total disregard for any form of modern gaming convention, the LENGTH, the DIFFICULTY SPIKES which I consider to be a random act of violence. It is all works perfectly for EDF. I hope they make a million of these games.

We'll definitely give the DLC a shot, but next up we'll probably play Split Fiction... still deciding after that. I'd love to read any suggestions for fun duo co-op games (Preferably on consoles)! :)

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deepdoop

Status deepdoop Sep 1, 2024

Includes spoilers for Earth Defense Force 6 and its first mission pack. The base game packs in EDFs 6, 7, 8 and 9 into one game. My brother and I were playing the first mission pack and on the final level he said, "I can't shoot or anything," and I'm like, "Did EDF just make us select a mission only …

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Includes spoilers for Earth Defense Force 6 and its first mission pack. The base game packs in EDFs 6, 7, 8 and 9 into one game. My brother and I were playing the first mission pack and on the final level he said, "I can't shoot or anything," and I'm like, "Did EDF just make us select a mission only so it can nuke us?" And yes. Yes it did. WMDs get launched in the previous level, and you watch them blow up and your screen goes white. I know that it explains previous events and technically you survive since some text pops up and tells you to go to a base. But I mean, c'mon, it still nuked the area you were in. This game is wild and I love it.

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ktynnlol

Status ktynnlol Aug 17, 2024

I absolutely love this game. EDF 6 is currently the only game I'm still playing online with a friend (or friends) and it's a blast. Such a simple concept, the gameplay just works and it's incredible to me that these developers keep creating games in this series, without losing sight of what makes these titles special.

Me and my friend …

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I absolutely love this game. EDF 6 is currently the only game I'm still playing online with a friend (or friends) and it's a blast. Such a simple concept, the gameplay just works and it's incredible to me that these developers keep creating games in this series, without losing sight of what makes these titles special.

Me and my friend talked about this whilst playing this game. How for example the Dynasty Warriors series lost its way, after all these years, by changing up the formula too much. Even if their spin-off games managed to do well and were decent-to-great, the mainline Dynasty Warriors games did fell off.

And this is where EDF shines, it knows what makes it so darn special and it just doubles down on it.

Yeah, great stuff. Happy to keep playing this, casually.

Progress: Mission 50+ atm, normal difficulty, maining Wingdiver, as usual

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