I have never seen a tactics game that so compellingly models modern warfare and combined arms. The gamefeel is excellent, the characters are charming, and the aesthetics have this great Aliens and 90s action movie thing going on. Just really happy to see another great game coming from Overhype, who made Battle Brothers, one of my very favorite turn-based tactics games.
In general, I really like how the demo supports a variety of builds while still remaining challenging. Even after all the runs I've done I still lose sometimes, but can also win on the highest difficulty. There's sort of too much to say about how it works as a system and what I like and don't about it, but it does maybe the most important thing so very well - moment to moment it feels excellent to move your little guys around and shoot their guns. pew pew
Agreed! I loved Battle Brothers but I'm not a fan of RTS in general, so I wanted to give this a try purely out of what I think of the studio.
It's more small unit tactics than a big ass army rts where tactics boil down to rock paper scissors. It was very cool setting up my mg team and vehicle on an SBF role while two teams pushed up flanking, only to get flanked myself because I did not use my drone effectively. I mean that sincerely.
I played the demo (though not nearly as much as OP) and it's not an RTS. It's turn-based.