Clone Drone in the Danger Zone heads to mobile for the first time

Doborog has put Clone Drone in the Danger Zone on the path to iOS and Android for the first time, turning its voxel robot brawls into a mobile test of whether touch controls can keep up. The studio says the port is still a work in progress, and more details on timing and availability will come later.

Clone Drone is not a scaled-back arena fighter. Doborog describes it as a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off, with fights built around destructive melee combat, bosses, enemy-packed arenas and environmental hazards. That makes the phone version a real stress test, because the game lives on quick reactions, movement and the kind of chaos that can turn a clean run into a heap of metal in seconds.

The game's history helps explain why this port matters. Doborog says Clone Drone began as a small prototype that picked up traction on YouTube, then entered Steam Early Access in 2017 before reaching macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in its full release on July 27, 2021. The studio itself was founded by solo indie developer Erik Rydeman and has since grown into a small core team of five based in Oakland, California, United States.

In its devlog, Doborog says the team has been experimenting with mobile controls for some time and has now “finally hit on something” it thinks players will enjoy on touchscreen devices. That is the crux of the port: whether a cult action game built on speed, limb loss and spectacle can feel natural in a mobile format without losing the rhythm that made it stand out on PC and consoles.

For mobile players, the question is not whether Clone Drone looks different on a phone. It is whether Doborog has found a control scheme that keeps the game’s pace intact when the arena fight moves from keyboard, pad and living-room screen to a touchscreen in the hand.