Survivor Mercs

This game is just not very good unfortunately. I was interested in the randomized commander genetics element when purchasing the game, but it's very basic percentage point changes and you have no agency over it at the beginning of the game. The world-gen / map design is also very bad. I've encountered the same POI's dozens of times with my meager amount of play time. I find a beacon to activate with two enemies behind sandbags to the left, and two barrels to knock towards them in the exact same spot every time. I feel like I have already seen everything the game has to offer.

It's worth $10 and your time as it's a fun squad-builder roguelike. Just bear in mind one key difference from other survivors-like. It's a survivors-like that focuses on grinding, leveling, equipping, and unlocking mercs in your squad who do all the damage. You provide buffs or effects as the commander. The power spiking you see in other games you won't find here, at least not at first and not with your commander (your character) and instead with some grinding and your squad members. The squad member development is pretty in-depth with lots of customization and RNG to fish for. It's not a bullet-heaven or a twink-stick shooter as claimed in the store tags because your character isn't shooting. That's what your squad members are for. In fact, the first commander you start with shoots 5 bullets from a pistol and each round takes about 1.5 seconds to reload. Very jarring and not bullet heaven. With that critical difference from other survivors-like games, the game is otherwise pretty in depth with progression and getting crazy builds (squads) to blast through missions. Missions are enemy and objective heavy. Lots of interesting enemies to face as well as maps. Operations are ess…

wish i could return this ♥♥♥♥

It's not fun. The store screenshots are real, but not representative of what you experience playing. You walk ever so slowly through terrain that repeats endlessly in pre-defined blocks. You hold shoot. You get upgrades but there isn't much meta game here, and boosts are like 1% more Damage, or %1 better Luck. Run from checkpoint to checkpoint. Then keep doing this forever. My play time shows almost 4 hours but really I played for maybe 45 minutes. There's no save and they make you do like 9 maps in a row to complete a run? No way I could sit through that much boring trudging without pause breaks, and I had to take breaks in my day. I'm an adult. Eventually I realized nothing's happening and I quit and uninstalled. Its just so lame in every way.

Extremely fun game, gets even better when you find out one of the bosses is also the boss of a data center. "The leprechaun tells me to burn things!" -Ralph Wiggum

Pretty decent game. Not the greatest in the world, but the gameplay loop is good