Satellite Reign

Was a half decent game. But as they shut down the multiplayer servers it's now just garbage. STILL 24,99 €. REALLY?! If they lowered the price to 5 € I could almost recommend this as a single player game, but well... the steam page still has all those fun features that no longer function like "Online PVP, Online CO-op, Crossplatform multiplayer"... this game is garbage. Don't even buy it on sale.

TL;DR: Buy it for cheap, perhaps on a sale. Game play is good but gets repetitive near the end. I'd strongly recommend playing in a group of 2-4 players. Great game, although I would recommend waiting until a sale or buying it when it's cheap. The actual progression and combat is pretty good, I played in a group of 3 and it went well although I can see how it could become easily overwhelming as a solo player. The game play is good but becomes very samey towards the end with no real unique content and ends up with combat being so much more rewarding and enjoyable than the way you're supposed to play (being tactically and stealthily). The story is a solid 2/10, we didn't really know what we were doing and had no drive to push the story forwards other than just getting the game done. All the missions are accompanied by walls of text which, even when read, don't clarify much other than the mission directly, nothing about why you do it. Progression is great in the first zone and part of the second. There's many many side missions you can do to unlock more gear options but it's just the same stuff over and over again. I would've liked some variety in the objectives rather than "go into a place, enter a room, escape the facility" which is what all the current missions boil down into with some slight variation. Having ATM's being siphoned as a passive source of income based off time is very strange for a game like this and I feel like it would've been better replaced with researchers that don't cost any money to use or just lump sum's of money. You're able to just siphon a few atm's at the start zone, leave the game for a couple hours and you'd have pretty much all the money you'd need to get some of the best gear in the game. Everything about the actual character progression I loved. I felt level up's came just frequently enough and had impactful and rewarding perks to choose from each time. The idea of choosing new clones for better stats is a very unique idea and works well in this setting, as well as being the only real indirect and noticeable story telling element for what your characters are. Weapons had a wide selection which I thought was great, although as the Infiltrator I thought there was a severe lack of sniper rifle progression. There's a plethora of other types of weapons for menagerie weapon classes and the heavy weapon class but only two snipers and no real good attachments to go along side them.