Phantom Brigade

It took a few years but they have greatly improved the game since release.

One game I am personally returning to a lot recently (in the past couple of years) is Phantom Brigade. Mech turn based combat, with real-time action sequences, the hook is you can predict the next 5 seconds, so while a mission may only last 30 seconds in that world, you can spend hours planning your moves for the best outcome. Also very nice if you like min/maxing, e.g. there are some weapons that seem massively overpowered, until you realise that to mount them your Mech can't carry anything else and will move at a snails pace, have very little armour or shielding and may have limited ammo to boot! Hours of fun if you love comparing performance stats, one for all the neuro-spicy out there... Quite replayable as well, as there is are various random elements, including missions, enemies and loot, and you can play on after the main campaign has ended, to revisit missed opportunities, although the same rather limited mission types get a bit samey though, although not as much as MW5:Clans, and as I say, there is always the chance of a great bit of loot. A few well integrated mods is on Steam Workshop is the icing on the cake! One the downside, the interface isn't always that intuitive, i.e. if you change a Mech's engine or a weapon mod, the stats aren't updated straight away, you have to click off and on a part to calculate them. Also some of the concepts are not explained to the greatest extent in the tutorial, it was ages before I got used to the uses of certain damage types, and, while heat generation is fairly obvious to those who have played Mech based games previously, exactly how it interacts with overheating in the turn based combat is a little obscure. Totally playable on Linux, even if it takes a while to actually start (this may just be Wayland). But all in all good, clean fun. Oh, and don't live your game at the maximum zoom extent, get in close and enjoy the carnage from pretty graphics!

Fast paced Battltech with puzzle mechanics and slight Gundam/Ace Combat/Valkyrie Chronicles vibes (invaded country fighting for freedom). The system allowing you to predictct enemy movements requires some acclimatization but believe me - once you'll manage to make that perfect round you'll feel the payoff. When your mechs dance through a battlefield, covering each other, dodging hails of fire behind building while tearing through an opposing force the satisfaction is real and invites you to try again. And again. Can't talk about pre-2.0 version of the game but in its current state it's definetly worth the price. Couple of gripes I would love to see addressed in future updates/next game: - removing trauma debuff should remove trauma point otherwise it discourages player from using veteran pilots - allowing player to replay last round and make changes to already executed plan, e.g. once per battle would save the frustration of having to repeat the whole match due to some lucky shot (lost my veteran pilot to a tank from an opposite corner of the map) - friendly AI often is more disruptive than helpful since it chooses its behaviour before the player - some tactical options like artillery strikes or smoke deployment would be interesting - the story begs to be expanded with some actual characters and choices for the player to make - this should be a Titanfall game :P

It took more a while to really figure out how everything works, but once I did, I had a lot of fun with this game. There are a lot of tactics games with mechs, but this is probably my favorite. Pros: +Randomly generated characters and perma-death; the way a tactics game should be +Very deep tactical gameplay +Lots of customization of both mechs and pilots. You'll actually have to think hard about your build for each mech and who should pilot it. +Missions usually don't drag on really long. Cons: -It's extremely complicated and it takes a while to understand how everything works -The biggest issue I think is that it can be unclear exactly how much damage an attack will do. This uncertainty can make it hard to plan your strategies. There were some missions where I was doing very little damage, and I still don't know why. -Due to the RPG style loot, there's a lot of tedious inventory management between missions. -There's no voice acting and everything's delivered by long paragraphs of text. -Pronoun nonsense in the pilot screen

2.0のアップデートにより初期の不満点が改善。 メカ、SLGファンに一度は遊んで欲しい傑作に生まれ変わった。 ゲーム内容はムービーを見たそのまま。 パイロットを狙撃でコンカッションし、ビルを遮蔽に敵のマシンガンを遮り、 二機をまとめてブレードでぶち抜いて、長距離ブースターで戦車をまとめて踏みつぶそう。 飛来物を撃ち落とすバックパックや、構造物向けの多弾頭ミサイル、出力はすごいが衝撃で不安定になるリアクターなんかもある。 パイロットの成長要素もあって XCOM2でスナイパーとか近接のお気に入りを作って遊んでた人はめちゃ楽しいと思う。 クリアまでのボリュームがそこそこ、クリア後も遊べる。

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Started strong, and gradually the issues started to show. I was managing to enjoy the game DESPITE the absence of any voice-overs and the god awful UI, which cannot cope with the increasing complexity of the mission and the loadouts as you go. Fine... But then the game started throwing random fail states for certain missions, and that was it for me. I can endure some obstacles to enjoyment, but when my effort is thrown out the window because "we decided, for no reason, and chose NOT to tell you, that unless you do this in 4 turns, you lose", then I'm out. Restrictions and limitations are fine, but not when they are arbitrary and lore/immersion-breaking. Other similar instances of this BS kept coming, so no, I do not recommend this game unless you're ok ignoring logic and common sense, and reloading the same save multiple times to deal with the game's nonsense.

[u]2025年11月の「2.0」アップデートで、もはや別ゲーと言えるレベルに化けました。 これから遊ぶ人は2.0以降のレビューを参考にするのが正解です。[/u] [h1]令和に超進化したフロントミッション[/h1] 詳しいシステムは他の方が語り尽くしているので割愛しますが、とにかくクオリティが高すぎる。 Steamの奥底に埋もれさせておくには本当にもったいない出来です。 ストーリーは大味なのでオマケ程度と捉えた方が良い。 自分の立てたタイムラインがバチッとはまった瞬間の脳汁は、 他のシミュレーションでは味わえません。 セール時なら1500円程度で買えるので、ロボット好き×ターン制好きなら 「必見」というか「義務」レベルで買いの一本です。