Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

This game definitely isnt for everyone. It took me a while to get in the mood to learn it, because it requires patience to read and test out character skills to get things going, until then you're gonna get ur ass kicked and ask urself why you're even trying. But boy, when it clicks, this game is something special, to me its better than X-Com, it is a masterpiece. This game is complex, every team composition requires a totally different approach to missions. You'll face the dilemmas of bringing ur hacker for money and easy access to the map or bringing the extra grunt for firepower if things go south, or maybe you'll let ur vanguard sit one out and sacrifice ur stealth capability to be able to hit harder and still have hacks, or maybe bring firepower only and erase enemies as they come, its entirely up to u, tho u wont be able to muscle through missions at the start of the campaign. Every class has its strenghts and weaknesses, every class is useful and superb at doing their job, its up to u to decide how u wanna tackle the challenges in this dystopian cyberpunk world. If ur a fan of turn based and cyberpunk themed games Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is a no brainer. Im not a fan of…

I am really enjoying this game. It started a bit confusing and not a lot of hand holding but once you get into the swing of it it is really enjoyable either making the enemy run round after ghosts or turning them into ghosts (killing them). My one piece of advice is invest in bio dissolvent, makes everything a bit easier.

Pound for Pound this game is one of the best Indie purchases I've made. Many indie games have the danger of falling to the wayside after a couple of updates, or to sit dormant, untouched for months or years with sporadic patches that are underwhelming in their content. This is not the problem with Cyber Knights. I've been amazed at the amount of updates, and the actual interesting content that fills each update. If you don't believe me, just scroll through their update messages for the past year or so and take a note. Regularly they are adding new content, fleshing out classes, adding more mercs to recruit, and otherwise making this game a real labor of love. If you enjoy games in the style of the modern XCOM 1/2 (and who doesn't?), then Cyber Knights offers just enough of the familiar formula to help you comfortably hit the ground running, with enough original mechanics and content to not feel like some kind of knockoff. I especially appreciate the interplay between the stealth aspects (this is a stealthy heist game at its core) and their interaction with the security devices and personnel. If you kill that poor guard, you have a number of turns until the Security …

This game very quickly rose the ranks of my ever-expanding list of experiences all the way up to (near) the top. I am not exaggerating when I say this is easily one of the best I've ever played. The flexibility of play means you will have to police yourself on some details in order to keep difficulty and consequences meaningful (in other words, self-restraint for save-scumming and the like). From what I'm told, gameplay is similar to XCOM, though I never played it myself. Tactical isometric RPG using percent chance actions, closest thing I played was Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Here, however, missions vary in strategy much more, and stealth is optional in most situations. (meaning, you can stealth a whole mission or guns blaze right away, or mix between) I find the balance between them very well constructed. Personal story collides with over-arcing narrative, and nobody is without baggage. I find this annoying in most strategy games, as it usually means "we're gonna screw you over without warning randomly down the line" but in this game it felt like "we're gonna challenge you with warning in a narrative appropriate way, with the opportunity to come out the other side stronger." …

When this game works well, it is excellent. If you like turn-based games that require thought and adaptation so that you aren't just following a set routine, this game is actually better than anything apart from UFO: Apocalypse, and that's probably a game that you can just play and play and play when the mood takes you. The only time it doesn't work well is when it spams enemies early and there was one session where it didn't tell me I had completed my objective so I had to spend ages runnning round a map being hunted for no reason - I could have just taken the money and run. The wiki isn't great, either so just go ask on Steam. The hacking game takes a while to understand, but once you do it's easy enough, clever enough and not especially annoying ( think Gothic Remake's lockpicking ) and there is a lot of possible progression. The scripting is good, the base is good, the ... everything is good. And this didn't cost the earth nor come from some studio trying to do too much. The game is simply just outright damn good. The downside is it eats up all of your time.

This is a very good game, I'd rate it 10/10. Why so: The developers are very active, they definitely love their craft and this game in particular. They listen to the feedback (most of it), they interact with the community, they release the patches regularly. The gameplay loop is tight. Stressful even, in a good way - but if you don't like that, you can tune the campaign settings and get it more relaxed. The tactical possibilities are many. After you leveled up and equipped your crew, you have a lot of ways to deal with the threats - and it feels good to try. The strategic layer is interesting. Honestly, I've bought this game for the strategic layer more than for tactical one - since I was prepared to be somewhat disappointed by the "infinite reinforcements" mechanic in the fights. Surprisingly, it wasn't disappointing - it felt very fitting, nicely balanced, and became a source of fun when team got considerably stronger. Managing contacts, base development, trade, all that stuff feels quite impactful and interesting. Back to tactical - 6 action points. What can I say? I hate 2AP system with burning passion! 6AP is somewhat a middle ground, still not in two-digit ranges, but workabl…