Recent reviews by The Knight of Ni

Once you come up the learning curve it's a fun humanity simulator. Like the Sims but more Feudal.

Slow moving development cannot take away from its overall accomplishments.

I played the story for about 50 min. It took about 15 before they turn control over to you to do some fetch quests and then another 5 min of story before you even get a gun to shoot it. I woudn't recommend this game on its own merit. If you're a fan of the Far Cry series then there may be something here for you but if you were looking for a deep level of immersion maybe look elsewhere. 6/10

When was the last time you had an a moment of panic in a game? For me this involves playing the new expansion on Ironman (no loading back saves) mode (normal difficulty) and coming across missions which were not in the base game. This mission was an outright near crushing defeat and only two of my soldiers survived. My entire command structure was lost. Now going forward I've got to start over training most of my men. Couldn't recommend this game more. You can tweak it be as difficult, intense, or casual as you like.

Short version:

1. Get too attached to your units
   
2. Aliens destroy them in heavy cover with crits.
   
3. Punch punch the aliens in the face with robots

10/10 Punching aliens in their smug faces.