Amazing Superhero Squad

After playing for about half an hour what I can tell you is that this game is a mess. Playing it, I want to compare it to Reigns, but more plot-centric, significantly more complex and way less intuitive. The fact that everything is timed and you - as far as I can tell - have no option to pause. You can speed things up, but no pausing, which wouldn't be bad if you wouldn't have missions that are only available for a short amount of time, while you also have ones that are available until the end of the day. And all that is frustrating. To summarize my gripes and in the faint hope of devs actually reading reviews, here some bullet points of what I'd want: [b]A proper tutorial[/b] - by far my biggest complaint is that once I pressed start it just kinda threw me on the desk, There is a help "documentation" thing, which you can read through to get all the information, but to learn the mechanics, especially with time pressure I think this is really not doing much. I start games to play games, not to read for a couple of minutes how to play the game. Teach it to me while playing, Don't just drop a wall of text. [b]Cutscenes should not auto through the text[/b] - who even thought that wa…

I tend to not do reviews. But this game made me write one. I first heard of this game from a coworker. They told me about this game and how it's a superhero management type game. Said it looked similar to "This is the Police" and I can see the resemblance. I thought that sounded interesting, so i bought it a few days ago. Just now got to play it, and.... Well, it's not what I thought it would be. To start, the art looks good. Not amazing, but nice to look at for me. Characters seem interesting in design. My favorite I saw was Moira if I remember her name right. She died on her first mission I sent her one. I'll get to that in a bit. The gameplay is just choosing which hero to send out on missions. A mission pops up, choose a hero that best fits said mission, and send them. Now, that sounds insanely easy. That's because it is. That's all this game is. The heroes have "types" so to speak. Say one has a circle symbol and another has a square. A mission will pop up and you choose the hero with the corresponding symbol to go on it and the mission will have a better chance of success. The missions range from easy missions, represented by a greed circle. Normal missions with a yellow circ…

Amazing Superhero Squad, developed and published by Siberian Koala, takes an interesting angle on the superhero genre by putting the player not in the boots of a costumed savior, but in the role of the person coordinating them. Instead of direct action, the game focuses on managing a team of heroes, handling crises across a city, and making decisions that determine whether situations are resolved efficiently or spiral into failure. It’s a premise that immediately stands out, especially for players who enjoy strategy and simulation elements wrapped in a comic-inspired setting. The gameplay revolves around juggling resources, assigning heroes to missions, and maintaining the overall stability of your organization. Each scenario requires you to evaluate which hero is best suited for the job, balancing their abilities against the demands of the situation. At first, this creates a satisfying loop where planning ahead and making the right calls feels rewarding. There’s a sense of urgency as multiple events unfold simultaneously, pushing you to think quickly and prioritize effectively. However, as the game progresses, this system begins to show its limits, as many decisions rely on relat…

Exactly like "This is the police" but stupid

The game is quirky, it's not the best, but many criticisms I've seen here are unwarranted. One of the main ones is there isn't much in the way of an explanation as to what all the symbols mean. There isn't, and I'm still not sure entirely. For the most part it seems like it is their power level and when placed on a mission the suggested power level for the mission. However this isn't the only parameter worth taking note of. You need to decide if the super you're sending is appropriate for the scenario. It does matter, and sometimes unexpected supers will have unexpected solutions, which the game will tell you. This is an interesting dynamic that I think is good for this game. Now you can get a lot of unexpected failures because there is an element of RNG. I do think this RNG should be limited as the margins seem disproportional at times. This game should definitely rely more on the relation between the heroes and the events. There is also a dynamic where you are undergoing an investigation because there is a traitor, and this is almost always a fun thing in a game. One of my favorite games was Lost Dimension. Where weeding out the traitors was essential. At the full price of $6 …

This is a corporate simulator, not an action game as the title suggests. Well done for what it is.