So I tried to stream this game. I really did. But Mixer was going to make me sign the Streamer’s Pledge so I decided I’d never stream again.
(But no I just didn’t realize I’d need to get a new streaming key and then wait 24h (!) so i couldn’t stream)
Regardless, I did play the game and stream it to some folks in the SNEX Discord, so that was fun.
This game is pretty frickin good! It’s like…XCOM-lite, or something similar. Very tense and filled with lots of difficult decisions, and huge huge Fog of War problems to solve. Plus even though everything is BB gun based, you can totally stab someone until they die.
Also, these menus…they are good looking.
So you start the game by making a team of 8 total people. I named my team Team Gutsy for some reason, and went with a Leader (you have to), 3 attackers, 1…scout, I can’t remember what the T means but it’s a scout, 1 Defender, and 2 snipers.
Unfortunately the early missions have very low deployment numbers, so I think at most I used 4 out of the 8.
Each class has a special ability, let me try to remember what they are from 6 days ago.
Leader can…wait what does the leader do, I can’t remember??
Attacker I also can’t remember?? shit
Defender can heal any unit and themselves for 1 HP, which is super important because the most HP I’ve seen anyone have is 5
I didn’t even use a sniper or a scout, shit
Anyway, you can change the loadout of any of the characters to whatever you want, but their stats will make them better or worse suited to specific guns.
Oh and yes, this game has real fucken guns
I mean, it’s all like…airsoft versions of a desert eagle. But it’s ridiculous.
There are multiple kinds of objectives on the map, including Murder Everyone Else, Shoot The Other Teams Cans, Get To The Point, and I think maybe defend a point, but I didn’t play one of those. You’ve also got turn limits but I didn’t run into that in any meaningful way yet.
The silliest thing about it is that the enemy turns are essentially invisible to you, but your characters will call out what they see and experience from this cute little interstitial:
Also yes those are skulls. This game veers wildly back and forth between Very Cute and Desert Eagles and Skulls.
I’m going to try and stream it again tomorrow night on Mixer, for real this time, so come hang out at like 9 Central with me. There’s a button that makes fireworks go off on my screen so…do that.
Anyway, y’all should also try this game out, I think it’s really compelling! Also would be a very good choice to emulate on a phone since it’s turn based and could be played in little 15 minute chunks.
I’m also curious about what people who actually play strategy games thinks of this. I usually don’t like strategy games but I’m having a good time with it…so something is probably wrong with it!!