A very good turn based tactics game with a few interesting ideas.

The missions themselves play out in 2 modes - a real time stealth section where you can wander round and use takedown skills to remove people from the upcoming fight (each of the 3 classes has a different ability) and then once your spotted you go into more traditional turn based combat.

The characters themselves are delightful, well voiced and each one is distinctly different even within the same class (the Brawlers include a machine gun wielder with a heat mechanic, a melee puncher with a kill chain mechanic and a shotgun wielding damage soaker for example). However, as you can only use 3 in a mission (4 on the bigger Heists) and a couple on the world map each turn you quickly end up with your main squad that you focus skill points and equipment onto so several of the others tend not to get a look-in after a while.

The Unseen Hand cards are fun and can really add to or change a build as you find them and add them to characters to make some silly combos - its a shame you can only add them to the characters on the mission - again leading into that main squad and the rest issue.

The maps are quite small for the random missions, the main Heist missions are much larger, so you can nip through the smaller ones quite quickly once you get the hang of it. The downside is that there's a limited number of the smaller maps, so its not too long before replaying maps - but with different objectives and enemies.

The biggest issue is the Doomsday clock which adds a lot of time pressure to things, especially if like me you like to explore everything and recruit everyone (though i never did find that pesky ninja). However there are custom options that allow you to slow it down and i didn't find it too much of a problem with it turned down a notch and had plenty of time to do everything i wanted to do and still keep them at a reasonable level.

Its a shame that the publisher and developer had such a falling out as it would have been nice to see how it would possibly have expanded.

Game looks great and promising. I would like to recommend the game but there are a ton of things that stop me doing that.

Most stupid AI logic I have ever seen. In the game where each character has 2 actions and characters are free to use it like shooting twice or moving and shooting. However AI always spent 1st action to move which means even if they stay in the best spot they are moving to another spot. And then their 2nd action is doing something best which is to move themselves to the best spot. So you will see AI running out of cover and running back and ending their turn. If they shooting they always do it only once in their turn, only a melee enemy that looks like it has a brain to attack twice in turn.

Lack of enemy variety. The game has 3 factions and each of them have 2 - 3 enemy types. The worst part is there is no final boss in the game, in this game the leader of 3 factions is immortal. You can fight with them many times during normal missions but once defeated they just disappear and come back in other missions. And the final boss is 3 of them that you fight many times before, just this time they are no longer immortal and die after defeat. Fun fact they never have improvement or come with new skills just like other enemies that just make them have higher health and armor even in the final mission! And those leaders which I didn’t want to count as a boss because you can easily 1 shot them, what a terrible enemy design…

Crap optimization, I play other games at 60 - 90 fps but at this game it constantly drops to around 15 fps every 3 - 5 minutes.

There are a lot more things, especially the bad UX of this game. But many people already talked about that. Lastly if you still decide to give it a try then don’t try to get 100% achievement, there is a bug that many people encounter that Judith never appears to recruit.

>be me
>be playing games at 2am
>decide to download a few more from the humble bundle before I go to bed
>wake up
>check them out
>one seems to be an xcom clone set in 1932 paris
>cool
>open it up
>start tutorial
>have one man and one woman
>man is the stealthy nimble one
>woman is the "bruiser"
>close came before completing level

I've seen enough.