Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

Cyberpunk X-Com! Isometric maps, turn based combat, base building, crafting. Not perfect, but pretty darn good.

what a game! Played their others and knew how much they care about theirs games constantly refining them and making them the best they can be over time while listening to community.. patches roll out all the time and the game, well its just a great balance of tactics and fun! If you like... yes you guessed - 'X-Com' you WILL NOT be disapointed

Best tactical shooter I've played in a very long time. If you're a big fan of XCOM, this game is heavily inspired by the best parts of it while leaving some of the worst parts out. If you're a big fan of other tactics games, this game does almost everything you'd expect from them and does it well. There's a focus on stealth, but it's not mandatory. Some missions are loud only, some are half and half. Build diversity is strong, and difficulty scales really well between lower and higher difficulties. This is one of the rare few games that feels properly challenging on its hardest difficulty so that if you're a veteran of the genre you'll feel rewarded and satisfied with the journey of learning how to overcome these challenges. RNG is also not a major factor as compared to certain other tactics games. You can get unlucky at times, but it's not an overwhelming part of the experience. With positioning and character building, you can get your accuracy up very high to feel like your skill and planning matters more than luck. The ONLY downside to this game is that the character models are pretty ugly. There are a small handful of decent options, and you can customize every character you recruit to not look stupid, so it's not the biggest deal. There is also enough cool headgear to cover up faces, and a few good body options to go with. The game otherwise looks really great, and receives constant updates and support. If your a fan of tactics games, this is a must buy and a must play.

Good tactical moves with lots of options determined by the crew on the job

it's very good at what it's doing, and it keeps getting better.

Playtime isn't showing the full number but great game from an amazing dev team, honestly haven't seen games get as many free updates as Trese does.

An incredibly refreshing take on the TBT genre. Deep tactical layer with every mission offering a variety of solutions supports a very strong core gameplay loop, haven't yet found myself getting the mission fatigue you can find in an XCOM Long War campaign. Great setting with good writing for the characters, this game oozes that cyberpunk charm. While not quite to the level of something like shadowrun, it's clear the the setting and story here are the vehicle for gameplay, which far surpasses that of any TBT game in the Cyberpunk genre. This is the first time I've ever found stealth a truly engaging option in a TBT game, and it's down to the excellent implementation. While stealth vs combat can be all or nothing, it's much more probable you'll end with a mix, with brief explosions of violence followed by attempting (and in my case often failing) to evade the consequences of such. Enemies feel sufficiently stupid enough to enable stealth gameplay, but also intelligent enough when the guns start blazing to offer a proper threat. The strategy layer is broad, with multiple upgrade paths for just about every aspect, from an interesting amd novel contacts based system for directly upgrading your equipment and cyberware, to enchancing your base to provide powerful in mission bonuses at a cost of money or favours (influence exerted over your contacts) Class variety is fantastic, each class is very unique, but with enough overlap to allow for versatile team compositions where you may not always have your favourite tools but will always have something to get the job done. I'm yet to pick up an active skill for a merc that feels underwhelming, even the really situational skills have been thought out to be worth carrying. And that's not to mention multi-classes were the possibilities get kind of nuts. If you like TBT games at all, pick this up, the developers are fantastic with a unrivaled record of supporting their games, and you'll have a blast with it while pushing forward the demand for more interesting TBT games.