Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

It's almost good, however there is a problem specifically with certain enemies after a few jumps that super swarm you and have a 90% evasion rate so you have absolutely no chance against them. You have like 2-3 squadrons and the enemy has about 4 times that, under normal circumstances not a problem as you have tactical options, but when your outnumbered forces miss 9 out of every 10 shots, there's really nothing you can do. Especially when they keep spawning more and more units in because you can't kill any of them fast enough. I even had gunstar weapons that shot out like 50 shots at once and it did basically nothing to the enemy forces aside from pop up a bunch of 'miss' notices over them all. It feels like the enemy is cheating, it's so bad. It really makes it seem futile to even try to play the game.

Game tries to do a lot of things but just doesn't really do them that well. There's a ton of different little mechanics, but all of them are boring. There's a Cylon spy finding minigame that is more-or-less random guessing. The combat is a series of RNG checks that determine if you lose before the battle even starts rather than requiring real strategy. There were no battles where I couldn't tell if I was screwed immediately upon looking at the enemy's innate specials. Events are tedious resource sinks. You're supposed to balance different fleet factions but this is also mostly RNG, since how much influence you gain/lose is obfuscated, and the events are random "Either screw faction A or screw faction B" situations. Runs are much too long and the content is repetitive and uninteresting.

Acceptable core gameplay held back by a lack of interesting story and too much repitition. The developer's previous work, Crying Suns -despite my complaints about its ending- had a captivating story that pushed you forward. You wanted to see what the answer behind the mystery of the great shutdown, and that kept you going. Here there's barely any of that. The mystery of who's a Cylon, so keen in the show, doesn't feel significant when the characters are new each run. The meta story shared between runs is just a few lines long, featuring characters we don't know. The story doesn't keep me playing... ...and neither does the gameplay, which gets same-y pretty quickly. The short-range ships go back and forth. The long range ships sit in place. The battlestar guns clean up stragglers. Let's do that 15 more times this run! The crises, while faithful in concept to the original show, just feel like straightforward resource management exercises. The workers' strike in the show was tense because time was spent showing the conditions, the Chief getting in there and seeing that despite the fleet's dire situation, conditions were still too far gone even for emergency work, and in resolving that it was time for a strike. That makes the crisis feel like a crisis, a choice between two harsh alternatives. A text message saying "Workers say conditions are bad. They want 5 scrap. Pay?" doesn't really feel like anything, not even with the :( face beside it. So, manage some resources for a while, until you get the same story ending cutscene, same as every run. You might unlock a new ship that's actually not quite exactly the same as the previous one but it pretty much is.

Huge BSG fan, and this game is not it. On paper, it should be right up my alley, as I love BSG, I love spaceships and space battles, and (usually) enjoy roguelikes, but this game feels like a cheap, casual mobile game port. Lazy writing. Lazy character art and animations. No voice acting. Ships have no character and are not interesting to watch fly or fight -- they fly to their target, and then the sprite literally sits there completely still while doing low quality dice roll laser shot attacks. The tutorial well overstays its welcome, and treats you like this is "baby's first strategy game", and acts as though this *very* mechanically simple game is way more complicated than it actually is. Yes you can skip it, but I was worried I would miss something important if I did (in the end, I in fact, did not). Deadlock, while certainly not perfect, is infinitely better than this slop. It's too bad they removed it from the store a while back. Don't waste your time or money.

Интересно и атмосферно, но очень душно и лучше подождать Раны оч. долгие (~3 часа). Преимущественно состоят из чтения текста и принятия решений. Для понимания - в игре есть ачивка на прохождение за 90 минут. Одно прохождение включает в себя 14 прыжков, после каждого прыжка идет бой на две минуты. Т.е. даже с быстрым прохождением на ачивку, предполагается, что 2/3 времени уйдет на чтение и принятие решений. Текст сделан здорово. Даже интересно, что будет дальше. Это самая сильная часть игры. Часть с рогаликом слабовата. Метапрогрессия скучная, вариативность стартов скудная. Больнее всего бьет несбалансированный рандом. В игре много опций (перков героев, самолетиков, пушек и т.д.), но из них есть пара сломанных, пара сильных, но большинство - мусор. Да, в игре есть реролы, но их можно использовать не везде и их кол-во сильно ограничено

Bullseye! That doesn't mean you'll automatically like it or that it's the game you're looking for. It means the dev's built a perfect version of the game they were trying to make. Rouge-lite <check>, Proper mechanics for the game type <check>, Atmospheric/engaging/immersive <double check>, Stylistic while maintaining core look and feel of the canon <check> Sound, music, all good for what it is. Excellent execution on the genre. *Don't expect a super long thing. It's meant to be played quickly and replayed often. Short, sweet and fun.

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is an excellent roguelike experience that accurately embodies the tone of desperation and struggle from the 2004-2009 series. Almost to a fault it captures themes and puts the player into situations and crises that make you feel like you're making the hard choices directly alongside Admiral Adama. Would recommend to anyone who likes roguelike and strategy elements, and anyone with a love for the Galactica expanded universe.

So say we all.