Games of Glory - Guardians Pack

Let me be upfront about something: this is DLC, not a standalone game. The Guardians Pack is a content unlock for Games of Glory, Lightbulb Crew's free-to-play top-down MOBA-shooter hybrid that arrived on Steam in 2017. Before spending anything here, you need to understand what the base game actually is, because the pack only makes sense in that context. Games of Glory sits at a genuine genre crossroads. It takes the bird's-eye arena structure of a MOBA and replaces the lane-farming loop with twin-stick shooter mechanics: every ability is a skillshot, you carry both a ranged and a melee weapon and hot-swap between them mid-fight, and there are no creep waves to last-hit. Matches run 5v5 or 3v3 across two modes. Dominion has teams fighting over three control points to erode the enemy base shields before destroying the core, while Superstar (the more interesting of the two, frankly) assigns one player per team as the protected VIP and tasks the other side with hunting them down. The Dominion mode is what you will mostly see in quick matchmaking; Superstar is harder to queue into but arguably the better tactical exercise. Clones, the game's characters, each carry three abilities - two actives and an ultimate - split across five roles: Tank, Scout, Support, Assassin, and Carry. The Guardians Pack unlocks one Clone from each of those five classes, giving you a functional starting roster that covers every role without grinding the free rotation. It also bundles 1000 Soldi, the in-game currency. For anyone who decides the base game is worth investing time in, having one representative from each class on day one is a real quality-of-life shortcut. You can actually try every position in a coordinated team instead of being locked into whatever the rotating free pool hands you. The honest caveats: the base game launched into a crowded MOBA market and never built a large playerbase. Out-of-match menu navigation was criticized for being cumbersome, and map variety at launch was slim. The game's ambitions around a persistent universe where faction wins and losses shaped future content were genuinely interesting on paper, but how much of that vision survived long-term is difficult to verify today. The twin-stick controls feel better on a gamepad than on keyboard-and-mouse, which is a slightly awkward fit for a PC-first product. None of these are pack-specific problems, but they affect whether the pack has any practical value at all. If the servers are still populated and you are drawn to the MOBA-shooter hybrid angle, this pack is a reasonable head start. If the game has thinned out, unlocking five Clones nobody is playing against is a moot point. Diego, Scout Team