Conglomerate 451

This game is so rough around the edges you might cut off your fingers! I can only recommend it to people that are willing to bite through a lot of crappy and loveless put together of partly sweet and partly unfinished pieces. Sadly I'm a victim of that relaxed gameloop and that xcom like "office"-"management" 15 years ago this would be kinda cool but don't you get blinded by the nice stills and that somehow arranged movement scene in the trailer. This game is way more stiff, animations and effects look more like accidents and the sweet setting is somehow getting violated by the art with no direction and concept. It can be fun, but you should be into a grindy gameexperience with no climax or storrytelling This game also struggles a lot with its engine.. again unity also NOT VERIFIED on STEAMDECK if you ask me.. I put all the vid settings down to min and it still crashed every time I went into a fight during the enemy attack animation. 04/10 (on the biggest sale you can get if you have to :D)

If you specifically want jank, this isn't a bad experience for a few dollars. However, things it is not: Star Crawlers, Grimrock, X-Com, Darkest Dungeon, polished, good. You generate soldiers and send them on missions in the same six blobber maps with minor variations in features. Each soldier can have four skills, and has a variety of gear slots to drop modular bonuses into. Everything is upgradeable, but resources are always tight. Characters can take persistent debuffs, and if you don't take them out of active duty to treat them, they become permanent. It's like a mix of Star Crawlers and Darkest Dungeon, but only on the surface. Everything is ramshackle, nothing is implemented well. For example, there's a lack of context on a lot of important things. Swapping a module onto a weapon erases the old module. The only way to find that out is by doing it. Vision is a stat that maybe controls accuracy, but then what does Attack do? It's different from damage. One boss flags as difficulty level one, but is absolutely 3+. Making matters worse, the music, writing, and aesthetic are bad. The game has like six comedy barks that it rotates through after combat, and they're all wooden and poorly written. There's very little worldbuilding, and the cyberpunk themes are skin deep. The game's tooltips suggested using combat drugs for benefits in combat, so I bought one, and got a "just so you know, drugs are unethical" bark from the game. The canonical reason the game's setting is grungy is because cryptocurrency crashed so doctors took to the streets to protest. Honestly that makes it sound cooler than it is. Beyond this, gameplay is monotonous. Enemies are spongy, and you have to hit them again after you kill them in order for them to die. Combats are also frequent, and non-combat blobber stuff like item hunting is basically absent. There are a few minigames you can play to open doors early or get to small amounts of treasure, but they use battery. Battery is a finite per-mission resource that you can also spend for out-of-turn buffs and debuffs in combat, and it's honestly more optimal just to sell your battery-powered abilities than to waste your time on area scans and non-equipment, non-ability research. I've played thirteen hours because I wanted something mind-numbing, but there are better mind-numbing games out there. If my description hasn't turned you away, you might still enjoy it. Try it on sale. But if you want a janky punk blobber that doesn't feel half-finished, try Vaporum instead. Edit: Cleared all corporate bosses, game state isn't advancing, not sure if bugged or just more jank. This is as far as I'm playing, I guess.