Space Cats Tactics

Playtime: ~7 Hours (Completed Campaign) After sinking around 7 hours into Space Cats - Tactics and seeing the credits roll, my primary feeling is one of disappointment stemming from unmet potential. I kept playing, holding onto the hope that the game would eventually introduce more complexity or deeper mechanics, right up until the final boss simply vanished and the game ended. The Good (Sort Of): Charming Theme: The "cats in space" concept is inherently fun, and the game leans into this aesthetically. If you're a huge cat lover, the visual theme might offer some initial appeal. Potential Entry Point (Maybe?): For someone who has literally never played a tactics game before, the extreme simplicity might serve as a very gentle, non-threatening introduction to the absolute basics of the genre. The Disappointing: Overly Simplistic Gameplay: The core issue is the profound lack of depth. The game operates at a level I'd expect from a title aimed at very young children. The tactical layer is paper-thin. Minimal Challenge: While there are "tactics" involved, figuring them out is trivial. There's no real strategic puzzle to unravel, which removes much of the satisfaction typ…

A good little tactics game. Having to man the different rooms to activate different stations was a nice twist. Would be cool to see something a little bigger and open space with several sectors and main plus side quests. Bounty hunting, and maybe trading. Anyways enjoyed the play.

cannot pass level 5 .... two factions battle each other ... but instead fighting, both faction chasing me until dead

For a short game, it is fun and easy enough.

Argh this is a tough one to review because, as someone else noted, there isn't a neutral button, you have to choose good or bad. I'm swaying very slightly into the bad camp sadly, mostly from missed potential, and a feeling of being sort of duped into continuing playing as it really felt like that potential was going to be met. Overall the game felt like a big long tutorial, I didn't die throughout, had the research completed quite early, and was able to buy everything from every shop. I honestly expected the game to open up into a more free form game after I'd got to the end of the story, but the credits rolled and that was it. The writing is a bit rough in places, I don't mean the puns and jokes, I respect they are part of the theme and charm on purpose. It's all just a bit kids story book level of story telling, and a bit rushed feeling. The voice acting isn't particularly great, it's not terrible, and I respect the work to actually put voice over in there, but it's a bit wooden in places, I think this may have more to do with the writing than the VA themselves in many places, hard to say. It got real laggy near the end when I went into my ship, so could do with some optimisa…

This game had so much potential, but it was released as full well before early release should have ended with glaringly obvious problems, and the creator abandoned the project. Im talking about really simple things like the fact that there is no keyboard binding listing in the game and therefore you cant bind keys or even look up what they do. im talking about easily programmed fixes like making sure info boxes dont pop up behind other info boxes and become unreadable. Im talking a complete lack of ANY optimization to where a laptop, steam deck, or cpu is screaming for mercy and ungodly hot in my lap, hands or case. the problem is that this was sold as finished and patches are completely dried up after the creator added controller support a year ago, likely as a way to make the game steamdeck friendly for one last monetary boost. because of the way the credits are typed out but, it appears as though most of the game assets and all of the voice acting were done with freelance work. this game was actually recomended on one or two articles for space ship tactics games which was a massive oversight in my opinion. there are tons of things i really like about this game, but its j…