Quasimorph

Good turn based, sci-fi tactical game in a dystopian setting. Mods definitely make the experience better. Without mods its a 7/10 but a solid 8-8.5/10 with mods.

TLDR: Very difficult, very fun, robust strategic layer, lots of loot, lots of sandbox settings to adjust the difficulty (I recommend something between Hard and Unfair) Fantastic game, very well done. There is a lot more variety and depth to the gameplay than I expected. It's quite difficult but the easier difficulty settings give you plenty of space to recover and get better. You can customize a lot of the difficulty settings in a sandbox mode. Personally I think the game is best played on custom settings somewhere between the "Hard" and "Unfair" difficulties when losing a soldier has real consequences. There is a lot of information to consider when selecting missions. Which faction do you want to help or hinder? What type of weapons and armor does the target corp have access to so you can choose your loadout accordingly? How strong is the enemy? How strong is the ally? On some mission types you may have friendlies. On others, you're all alone and the enemy is looking for you. Understanding the different mission types and how they impact loot, enemy behavior, and mission goals is important. While I think having all these different aspects to choosing missions is a great feature of the game, it is perhaps a weakness that the game doesn't really tell you any of this. You just have to learn it from looking over the information available in-game and paying attention to mission types and faction tech, among other things. The strategic layer has a lot going on as well from tweaking weapon stats to swapping perks between classes and adjusting clone base stats. These things become available once you make it a little ways into the game and start unlocking ship modules. Factions war with each other while an enemy to all humanity looms. Who you choose to do missions for impacts how this power struggle plays out and what gear you have access. Looting is fun. I had to double the backpack size in the sandbox settings to feel like I could bring home even half the stuff I want to on longer missions.