Hostile Takeover
Whispering Spider Games · 2025 · Tactical RPG, Turn-Based Tactics, Roguelite, Card Game, Deckbuilding
PC
Positive93% · 15
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About Hostile Takeover
Take control of a small team of contractors, hired by mysterious suits for impossible jobs against powerful corporations. Your contractors each have custom cybernetics that allow them to use a host of abilities, represented by cards. These cards are used in turn-based combat for actions such as movement, attacking, defending, and special abilities. Along with combat, you'll also encounter events, character upgrades, and black market shops as you explore each corporation.
Playing cards costs power, and the bad news is each round your team's power is reset to zero. The good news is that each card not only has a cost, but a gain as well, which can be converted into power when discarded. Do you keep each team member balanced and focus your power on the character with the best draws each round? Or do you turn one of your characters into a recycler to fuel their killing machine companion?
Each player character is represented by a different class, and each class has their own unique cards to build a deck from. One may rely on shields to reduce incoming damage, while another may instead disappear, forcing enemies to attack another target.
Along with adding new cards to character decks, characters can also be modified through cybernetic upgrades that you occasionally come across. Unlike abilities, these upgrades are always active and can greatly change how a character plays. Discover synergies between upgrades to become even stronger!
Hand-made environments and encounters are pieced together through procedural generation to build each unique level. Changing layouts, hazards, and events keep each run fresh, while enemy encounters and combat maps are designed for fun and challenge.
It's Called Power, Not Mana
Playing cards costs power, and the bad news is each round your team's power is reset to zero. The good news is that each card not only has a cost, but a gain as well, which can be converted into power when discarded. Do you keep each team member balanced and focus your power on the character with the best draws each round? Or do you turn one of your characters into a recycler to fuel their killing machine companion?
Unique Character Classes
Each player character is represented by a different class, and each class has their own unique cards to build a deck from. One may rely on shields to reduce incoming damage, while another may instead disappear, forcing enemies to attack another target.
Character Defining Upgrades
Along with adding new cards to character decks, characters can also be modified through cybernetic upgrades that you occasionally come across. Unlike abilities, these upgrades are always active and can greatly change how a character plays. Discover synergies between upgrades to become even stronger!
Random-ish Levels
Hand-made environments and encounters are pieced together through procedural generation to build each unique level. Changing layouts, hazards, and events keep each run fresh, while enemy encounters and combat maps are designed for fun and challenge.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Very good card based cyberpunk combat game, lots of different cards to collect and play so you can try different approaches all out attack, defence, stealth. More people need to play this as there is a lot of depth and enjoyment here.
A really interesting mix of roguelike and turn-based tactics. You play as mercenaries who attack different locations in a sci-fi/cyberpunk environment. Much like shadowrunners in Shadowrun. You move through the environments choosing your path. It's like choosing a road in Slay the Spire. During combat you play with two operatives whos abilities are presented as cards. Each turn you get 5 cards and zero (usually energy). By discarding cards you get energy. Using cards costs that energy. So you have to choose which cards to discard to get energy and which to use to win the fight. It's pretty simple yet exciting. The combat itself is nice, reminded me of a game called Halfway. If you like turn-based games I highly recommend this one, it truly tried something new and does this successfully! Here's hoping that devs will earn enough to expand the game and release more games in the future!
Lots of variety and tactics possible, can't wait till achievements are implemented.
A fun an interesting take on Card Building mixed in with Roguelite. Would recommend especially for the value/price of the game.
The deck builder system has you discarding cards you won't play in a given hand as a resource to play cards that you will play. Keep this is mind in between rounds when weighing adding new cards to your deck vs. the option of removing undesirable default cards. Removing default cards to "slim down the noise" should not always be the priority move early on similar to other roguelike deck builders.
After playing this game for a good while, I think I have the gameplay loop down. The good: A nice take on the deckbuilding roguelike. The energy management system is unique to my deckbuilding experience as you need to sacrifice cards to use others. The pixel art looks great and the art on the cards is intuitive to understand. The sound effects are solid, and add an important addition to the overall sound design as the soundtrack can get a little repetitive. The true indie experience, as this dev has only released this game. The Room for improvement As mentioned above, the music can get a little repetitive after a while, but if you like listening to your own tunes while you game its no problem. One of those moments where its nice to be able to turn off the sound but keep the sound effects on. The UI makes sense and is easy to use, but has aspects that are clunky. The Overall If you are a deckbuilder lover, this game offers some unique mechanics that I think are worth trying. Its priced well so you are not breaking the bank for 6-10 hours of entertainment.
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