Unforgiving but really well made blend of extraction shooter and traditional roguelike. The game takes place in a dystopian future where companies wage war against each other and demons are intruding in our plane of existence.
You manage a private military company taking contracts for whoever thinks pays the best, including demons. The extraction mechanics allow you to bring stuff to the ship for upgrades, trading or just for future use in raids. Factions specialize in different things, for example the pharmaceutical company produces poisoned weapons, the mining company produces construction gear... All factions have a tech tree through which they progress over time, they battle each each other and the winners get stronger while the weakest get phased out. It's all playing out dynamically so you can back someone to make them stronger faster, think something along the lines of Mount & Blade on that point.
The game features a lot of different weapons, classes and mercenaries with unique passives. Some of the classes sadly become irrelevant as the game progresses and faction power makes every room a clown car of enemies to fight. This is one of the things that can become a bit contentious for me, the power scaling in the later game just doesn't leave a lot of breathing room.
In most planets and satellites, you'll be racing against the clock due to the Quasimorphosis meter which gauges just how easy of a time demons are having intruding in our dimension. It goes from 0 to 1000 ramping up in intensity: demon spawn rate and their strength. At 1000, all humans will transform into demons and a "Baron" will spawn, forcing you to kill it if you want to extract. Most of them are run ending if you aren't prepared, so if you think you're going to hit 1k it's best to pick a floor where you're set up.
Demons feed on human misery so the counter goes up by a lot if humans are killing each other, this makes mid/late game long levels (3 floors and more) a bother because of the guaranteed Baron spawn. You'll get into a floor, see the meter spike at least 300 in a few turns because two factions are shooting each other and you'll be locked into a Baron fight for extract.
Thankfully demons also have their uses and they'll whittle down the opposition more often than not.
Overall, in spite of some frustrations and some balance decisions, the game really nails the "one more run" and dopamine hits of being a loot goblin of extraction shooters with the tactical aspect, decision making and rewarding of game knowledge of traditional roguelikes. A big recommend from me unless you're easily frustrated, but the difficulty is very customizable.
