Drone Command — Free Browser Drone Operator Game

How to play

Each run is a tour of short sorties (about two minutes each). The loop is recon → designate → strike → return to base:

• Recon. Stay at wide zoom (×1–×2) and scan heat signatures: press and hold on a contact (touch) or hold the right mouse button over it (desktop) until the ring fills. Scanned hostiles become designated and pay double points; scanned civilians get a cyan no-strike dome you must not hit.
• Strike. Zoom to ×4–×8 and pick a weapon: 1 the 25 mm cannon (fast, watch the heat gauge and lead moving targets with the ✕ marker), 2 the 40 mm grenade launcher (slow arc, small blast — great against scattered infantry), or 3 the guided missile (hold on a target at high zoom to lock, then fire and ride the missile cam). Consecutive kills build a combo multiplier up to ×8 — it resets if you overheat, miss with a missile, or hit a civilian.
• Pressure. The battery is your clock, and anti-air wakes up where you look. Zooming in raises the AA hit chance against you; SAM locks can be broken by snapping back to ×1 wide optics. Three civilian casualties in a run ends it instantly with a stand-down order.
• Bank it. Your score is unbanked until you hold the RTB switch and survive the three-second extraction. Get shot down or run the battery to zero and the unbanked score is gone. Leave early and bank small, or greed for the priority-target bonus and risk everything — that choice is the whole game.

Touch controls: drag to pan, pinch to zoom, double-tap to toggle ×1/×4, hold a contact to scan or lock, and use the right-hand rail for weapons and FIRE. Desktop: drag or WASD to pan, wheel to zoom, click or Space to fire, right-hold to scan/lock, T thermal, M radar ping, hold R to return to base, Esc to pause.

A Daily Op rebuilds the same map for every player from the date, records your best score, and keeps a consecutive-day streak. Campaign runs ramp from a quiet first sortie to SAM-ringed targets by sortie ten — survive the tour and Overtime mode keeps scaling forever.

Operator ranks, medals and your career record

Drone Command keeps a full service record for every operator. Each confirmed target, intel scan, sortie and daily op is logged on your device and feeds an Operator XP score that carries you up eight ranks — from Trainee Operator to Reaper Actual. The dossier below shows your current rank, how far you are from the next one, and your lifetime after-action stats: targets destroyed, contacts scanned, sorties flown, missiles spent, runs banked and — the number that should stay at zero — civilian casualties.

On top of XP you earn service medals. The free set runs from First Strike for your first confirmed target through Hunter-Killer, Intel Analyst and Tour of Duty for reaching the tenth sortie of a campaign, plus streak medals like Always Watching for a seven-day Daily Op run. Every medal shows a live progress bar, so you always know the next thing to chase — the same daily-goal laddering that makes a streak worth protecting.

All of that — rank, XP, stats and the core medals — is completely free and saved only in your browser. Drone Command Pro adds an elite medal tier for veteran operators, a detailed performance breakdown (kills per run, scan discipline, a rules-of-engagement rating), a printable operator logbook you can save as a PDF, a CSV of your stats, a one-file career backup you can restore on another device, and an ad-free page.

More free browser games

Like Drone Command? These are also free, no-download, and save your progress on your device:

• Drift Royale — a 3D drift game with six cars, a paint shop and run history.
• Bow Hunter — a 3D archery game with a hunter's lodge, ranks and an exportable logbook.
• Merge Melon — a Suika-style merge puzzler with a fruit dex and achievements.

Browse the whole collection — and every Pro unlock — in the AppVitamins store.