This is technically a brilliant game. I'm not familiar with the dev team but my impression is that they are a small company and they've succeeded in making something a bit special here in my opinion.

Unfortunately the game does feel like it was rushed out the door before it was fully cooked, if I had to guess then maybe the money ran out or the publisher wouldn't wait and a deadline had to be hit. The balance generally isn't quite there yet and another month or two would have really dialled in things and made this a brilliant game. As opposed to one that has basically seemingly been completely forgotten.

But my gosh, the foundation is all here for an excellent turn based game and the world building is excellent.

Strangely the devs took a totally different direction for their next game. I do hope they return to this genre.

I've played turn based games all my life and it's my genre of preference. I'm a hardcore XCom fan for example.

Unlike most turn based games, Company of Crime is mostly up close and personal as opposed to using guns over distance. Guns are in this game but I played and won the whole game (35+ hours) and only fired a gun I think twice.

So the strategy and tactics come from creating bottlenecks at doors, funnelling enemies towards you and mugging them hard. Choosing the right ability to cause the maximum damage in the shortest period of time and trying to control your opponents with moves such as grapples and eye strikes. Trying not to alert too many enemies to your presence at a time and controlling how and when combat is initiated. It's all really good stuff. Battles can be very tense and your success is often on a knife edge.

The AI is fairly simple but if you start to get swarmed by opponents you will get wrecked quickly. There's a variety of holds, throws and debilitating strikes in the game that will wear down your team fast.

Loads of original game mechanics in this as well. As you create havoc in a mission, the noise will inevitably cause the police to be called and as such you will often end up having the battle through waves of the police as you try to reach the exit point. You will have heat in the vacinity which will affect how quickly police are called so this must be managed as well.

If you are unsuccessful and arrests happen then a mission can be run to get your team mates out of prison.

In the off chance the devs are reading this I would say please return to this genre.

Constructive feedback would be:
1. Remove the swearing. Why ask for a higher game rating and limit the potential audience?
2. Choose a more mainstream setting. RPGs, World War 2 or SciFi are the way to go. Your worldbuilding skills are excellent but there's no real demand for games set in the 60s in London.
3. More events and basically some sort of one off missions such as mini bosses with special weapons/armour to overcome.

There is a huge demand for turn based games and the obivously excellent game code on display here could surely be built upon for a new game that really could fill the massive void left by the demand for X-Com 3.

About 5 hours in you will understand the game and see if this is for you or not. As always I'd recommend picking this up on sale. The last half of the game were quite grindy and repetitive, again I felt this was down to a lack of balance and time spent tweaking player progress events.

Having won the criminal campaign, I'll now be trying the police campaign :)

Thanks devs, I really enjoyed your game!