A spinoff to XCOM 2, it takes the same proven formula but changes things up a bit. You now have a breach mechanic where you can plan your point of entry and then see your team breach into the area with enemies and perform your first attack in satisfying slow motion. Some parts are very different from XCOM 2, no permadeath for instance. If your soldiers die, you have to restart the mission.
If you are a fan of XCOM, you can't go wrong with this game, just know what to expect and you will have a great time!
This game was a pleasant surprise. You replay the same day over and over, but each time the clock resets you have learned a bit more and gotten another piece of the puzzle.
The aesthetic is great, the soundtrack is fantastic. Brilliant and unique game!
A simple adventure, which boasts the largest number of fetch-quests, I have ever seen before, intermixed with hidden object gaming.
The story is simple: Your sister is captured by pirates, and you have to find her! This is the only story there is for the first half of the game, so storywise it is pretty bland there. Fortunately it picks up halfway through, but the beginning could be a bit more interesting storywise.
Gameplay is simple - You pick up things, sometimes hidden on each map, and give them to people in order to get other things. Repeat at nausea! It does sound boring, but it is actually very relaxing, and there's a soothing soundtrack to go along.
I enjoyed myself, and the repetitive nature of the game made me play for much longer than I should have, because I could just do juuuust one more thing before finishing. :P
Graphics are simple, but suit the game very nicely, and while detailed they are never so complex that you can't find things.
I recommend it for people that don't want something filled with action, and something you can jump in and out of at any time.
Since I never played any of the previous games, I was overwhelmed by the complexity and detail of this one. I'm a big strategy game fan but after almost 10 hours I still just couldn't get into this game. Nonetheless, the game is very well made and might be suited more for you than me.
Spacecom is a scifi strategy game, where you use three different kind of ships (Ship to ship combat, bombardment, or invasion), to wage warface across solar systems.
You start out with a few planets, who may or may not be able to produce more ships, and a few space ships. You then move your spaceships between solar systems, and fight local ships (Happening automatically), or destroy or capture the planets. A few planets are capable of reparing ships, a few can build ships, and some can produce materials for building things. Most planets can do nothing, other than building battle stations, shields, and troops, to protect them.
It is not very deep, as that is all you can do. Every level has a main mission, usually capture or destroy a specific planet(s), or don't loose X number of planets to waves of enemies. There's also 1-3 extra missions, which is usually 'don't loose X ships or planets', 'don't let enemy get X planets'.
It was okay strategy, as some levels were harder and required you to micromanage your ships around, while a few of them was merely (im)balanced to allow you to select all your ships from the start, click enemy planet, and go invade it, and thus finish in 1 minute.
Graphically it wasn't too special. Representative round images of planets, with lines between them. A bit too simple for my liking, but that just made the game all about strategy. I could have liked better differentiation between the ships (A triangle with line above, in the middle or in the bottom!).
I did feel the user interface was hindering me a bit, as there was no overhead map, you had to select individual planets after sending ships to them and then tell them what to do, and the 'Invade' and 'Destroy' buttons were crazily close together given that you are playing in real time! And they were moving depending on what ships you had in your fleet, which was just a BIG no-no! The invade button should stay where it was, and not get replaced with 'Destroy' if you have a single bombardment ship in the fleet! And I was really lacking a 'you have idle ships waiting here', so I didn't have to scour around large maps looking for small triangles sitting still!
Soundtrack was soothing, although nothing too special. Sounds otherwise were almost non-existing.
I played it on a 2011 Mac Mini, so max resolution was 1344x1008, which was the weirdest resolution I have ever seen.. :D But according to MGS, the game wasn't supposed to be running, which it most certainly was, so I can live with that! So it did look quite old for me, but I again assume that's because my machine wasn't supported. No bugs encountered at all. I didn't try out multiplayer, because the game wasn't that interesting, but I guess it could actually be nice if you want something simple vs. a friend. The multiplayer ranking board didn't work though.
All in all a simple strategy game worth a couple of hours of gameplay. Acceptable, nothing more, nothing less.
Great game about rockets and space exploration! It can teach you a bit about orbital mechanics, and it's fun to experiment new rocket designs and manage your resources. There's no Steam achievements, if you care about them.
Challenging tycoon game, with lots of mechanics to explore. There is a sequel now, so this game can feel a bit outdated, but I think it's worth it. The game has been patched now, including a final patch before the sequel was released. There's lots of transport options, but I think managing the train network is the most fun you can have. Check the sequel (Transport Fever 2) before buying, you may like it more.
This is a major expansion for Stellaris; it adds new mechanics, not just cosmetics. The main feature are the Megastructures, some other features are part of the base game now. These Megastructures allow for some new options for your empire, improving the gameplay experience. It feels a bit overpriced for what it offers, since some of these features should arguably be part of the base game since the start.
Grand strategy in the roman era, falls short on expectations
First of all, the deluxe edition does not include any major DLC, be aware. It includes a flavor pack, and some items outside the game (wallpapers, forum avatar, etc).
This game was released to mixed reviews. It gets ideas and mechanics from several Paradox games, but in the end it failed to deliver a product as solid as other titles from the company. There were multiple major patches to improve on the mechanics, but some design decisions are hard to change now. It's still a grand strategy game, if you like the genre and the roman era, it can provide many hours of fun. Make friends, bring war to your enemies, expand your empire.
Isometric 3D turn based strategy, in the Cold War era
This game is good, but it could have been great. The turn-based strategy is similar to the X-COM games, but there is a big focus on stealth gameplay. If you break stealth, you can be attacked by endless waves of enemies. This design decision can turn off some people away from the game, it feels a bit constraining. In some missions there are also time limits, which some players don't like.
Outside the combat, managing your team and resources is fun. You have to collect hints and make connections between the story elements, to advance in the campaign. There is lots of freedom in the way you approach the missions or develop your characters. If you like X-COM, you will probably like this, but be aware that it plays a bit differently, you may be disappointed.
The concept and gameplay are simple. It's fun to manage the police squad, and discover new events, but it fails to grab my attention for longer periods of time. It gets repetitive fast.
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