Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

This is one of the better turn-based tactical RPG games I have played. It's very much a blend of games like XCOM with a cyberpunk motif. Instead of defending against an alien invasion, you're a titular Cyber Knight working with a team of mercenaries to complete heists. Your ultimate objective is to retire after amassing enough renown, wealth and ability. Exactly how you and your team get to that point is up to you. There's a lot of opportunities for stealth versus pure combat; you're rarely forced to play through a mission in a way you don't want to. Whether you want to slowly creep through, or rush in and tear up those in your way, you will be able to build a team that does it well. It's by no means a [i]perfect[/i] game - the graphics are simple for this era, you'll end up seeing a lot of maps and dialog on repeat, and it doesn't quite generate the same attachment to your troops that other games in the genre can manage. Extra bonus points for the devs being active and accessible. I didn't encounter a lot of major glitches, but the few I did report were handled quickly along with direct communication from the development team. Issues get resolved, not just noted and logged for all eternity. They're involved with their community and their product in a way that isn't common nowadays, and I hope their approach never changes. It's a steal at twice the price.

My review is simple: All other tactical turn based combat games pale in comparison - Xenonauts 2 the exception but the gameplay here is richer.

This is the game I have waited 30 years for. Amazing tactical depth, superb cyberpunk setting, endlessly replayable.

I’m 200+ hours into this game, and it has become one of my favorites. It took me a while to get used to the visual style of the game, but at this point I can appreciate it. I’ve played the entire XCom franchise, and this game is more like XCom: Chimera Squad than anything else. It has great story generation mechanics that are unfortunately a little buggy at times, but fun overall. I have two complaints, however, about, developer decisions that are just weird. First, extra equipment slots are THE MOST EXPENSIVE CHARACTER SKILL IN THE GAME. Thats right… carrying an extra grenade takes more effort than any other skill. Also, equipment slots are SKILLS, not an armor trait, which is not that uncommon of a dev choice but I think is the least sensible option. Second, skills that cause enemies to attack each other, do not activate enemy aggro. For enemies with swords this means that they can go around cutting other enemies in half, in full view of other enemies, and the only thing the other enemies will react to is finding a dead body. It is a comical exploit that is supper convenient, but the game would really benefit from fixing it.

Good game if you like squad turn based combat. It has got a lot of that combat, you can even continue the game until the day you die IRL. You can shoot at baddies, use drugs, get to a psychiatric room to fix your anxiety, and look orange, pink, purple and green. While holding a shotgun. The only downside is that it addictive. In real life I just kicked off an alcohol addiction, leaving me with smoking and coffee. And this kind of games.

Definetly the best indie game I've ever played with the best support I've seen even among AAA projects. Deep tactical RPG with nice balance, unique classes and interesting mechanics. Thumbs up to the devs!

I really wanted to like this game but it's way too stupidly hard and slow. This game is a total slog. The levels have way too much stuff, it takes FOREVER to play through, and if you lose, you're out tons of time. There's too many enemies, too many traps, too many problems. There is no flow. It's way too dense. After you finally get out of the tutorial, they basically throw you right into a mission that's just way too dense, way too painful. They pretty much start you off with "okay you owe a bunch of money but if you do this job we'll forgive your debt" but the mission is just a real pain. The hacking "level" is way too big. And then after you spend forever doing all this work, they send out these guys to kill you, and they have like 7 uses of a shield that blocks an attack, and they also run so fast and far that you simply can't outrun them. So now you've spent all this time playing the game for nothing and you have to restart the level from scratch. Like why would you play tihs game? I set the game to easy and honestly I was just shocked at how hard the enemies that spawn are if you violate their little time limit thing. Like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, send gods after a new player? What is wrong with you? F-

I'm still in the early days but this game gives strong modern XCOM vibes with a ton of content (classes, skills, etc). Shout out to the devs who are pushing out updates constantly and are active on the forums.