Recent reviews by Blak Upp

Grindy

It is about half an hour worth of fun. If that is worth (insert current price here) to you, go for it.
The game feels repetitive very fast.

Controls are WASD for movement, left click for attack, right click for defend, shift for seperate, & space for clump
1-4 for items that can be collected.

I think strategy is a generous tag for this game. At the end of each area you are given the option to trade in
units for one of three choices. If you don't have enough of the right unit, then no trade.

In summation: It gets old fast.
I recommend Slay the Spire over this.

New weapons & armor - Cool
Mega Arbok, Mega Pangoro, & Mega Solrock - Neat

An enemy acting after every pip of your soldier - Not cool
Said enemy appearing on random missions afterwords until they are defeated or you lose - Not neat

I do not believe XCOM is the time or place to break the fundamental rule of a turn based game. My turn/your turn/my turn/your turn/etc. It is possible to mitigate their aggressive turn taking, but that only slows the bleeding. If they show up arbitrarily on an arbitrarily timed mission, then the mission will fail and/or your team will wipe, unless you play it perfectly.

They are beatable, but the payoff, their skin and the thrill of conquest, do not make up for the soldiers lost and time spent.

Quick note: You can get the weapons, but avoid fighting the enemies by only doing the scanning, but not doing the mission. A scaling mission would be more interesting, but it is a flat difficulty so it can be safely put off until much later in the game.

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Can not suggest.

Play TF2 instead.