Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion – Turn-Based Strategy

Has some competent elements, but probably not worth your time. + graphics are good enough + map design appears okay + clean UI + gameplay basics work fine - Some UI elements not translated to English - Dialogue is laughable and translated horribly - Uninteresting enemies (in couple first missions, at least) - Generic characters, no customization - Reload action takes too much AP, nonsensical choice - No saving mid-mission... a deal breaker, honestly. Not so much for save-scumming, but as a basic QoL feature.

The game is probably still in the ALFA version, it's very much unfinished, and there are a ton of bugs. I definitely do not recommend it.

It's surprising how bad the implementation is. Everything BUT the combat is pretty abysmal. Let's talk about AP for a moment; For one, you can't tell how many AP moving will use. So, you'll most likely move into position, only to find out you don't have any AP for the enemy right behind you. You only know when you don't have any AP (which I don't even know they call it) is when any of your actions are in red text. Intuitive? No. You sometimes don't even know you don't have anymore action points for your team and are constantly tabbing around before ending your turn. Now, let's talk about targeting enemies. Click shoot, nothing happens. That's because the pop up tooltip is in your way. Move your mouse. Then you can confirm. But wait, did you tab target first or just confirm the first target? This game makes no sense. Then there's shooting enemies when you're facing the opposite direction. It actually made me say wtf and laugh. AND, like others have said, there's no saving in-game or even quick save. Is it dinner time? Ok, let the game run. Gotta run to the store. Let the game run. Want to go to bed? Let the game run. This game does not respect your time at a…

I bought this game for $0.99 USD and I'm still returning it. I'm going to be a bit harsh on this game if only because I'm upset at the lost potential this game had. On the surface, mechanically, it's an XCOM (2012) clone that's more of a linear story rather than a base building, earth defense. It does a good job with that and isn't bad. The problem however comes in the form that you get no checkpoints during a mission, and you can't save a mission to pick it back up at a later time. So you're pretty much playing on ironman mode but without the ability to "Save & Quit". Because of that, the game is less appealing. Bad voice work, terrible and annoying to listen to dialog don't help either. I'm going to assume that English isn't the dev's first/mother language so the dialog already has a few awkward localizations which are made worse by what appears to be AI translated/written dialog, what looked like an AI animated intro cutscene, and AI voice acting. can't recommend this to anyone sadly. It's eye catching, and I wanted to give this a chance thinking it was probably going to be a niche kinda game, but no, everything outside of the game's base mechanics are just bad. On the plus s…

For the price, a worthwhile game. I also had 90 minutes on the demo. The voice acting is robotic, but the tactical combat is good, and the UI is fine. The between-mission gameplay is basic, but solid. The balance on a couple missions is not the best, but for the price, it is well worth it.

I found this game to be a decent game that has much future potential to itself. Especially If you also do not mind the somewhat quirky AI generated voice actors and their dialogues, etc. It felt a little rough around the edges with the game controls feeling a bit clunky, and a little glitchy in some aspects of it for the gameplay itself. Yet The balance of the game is modest in most regards as well. Overall. It was a fun experience similar to more known game titles for its turn based strategy style of gameplay.