You drop grenades on Russian tanks from drones in Death From Above
You drop grenades on Russian tanks from drones in Death From Above.
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Death From Above review — Taking Ukraine war to serious and silly extremes

I’ve had some deep conversations with Hendrik Lesser, founder of Lesser Evil, about his project Death From Above, an arcade-like game about the ongoing war in Ukraine.

And now I’ve had a chance to play the game via Steam Early Access, and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it’s a brave game that takes on the geopolitical horror of our time, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the game, you play a Ukrainian soldier who is trapped behind enemy lines and fights back with a drone that can drop grenades on Russian soldiers and tanks. In that way, it is drawing attention to the war and is trying to help with the cause by donating proceeds to Come Back Alive and Army of Drones.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.