Satellite Reign

This was "sold" as being like Syndicate, but no, it's not, it's really not. Horrid controls and not 'like' Syndicate.

syndicate from 1993 under a different guise. I enjoyed it as a kid, probably wouldn't now with different preferences, and sadly, 30 years later they still didn't think to include tactical pause and a decent save system, not just sparse checkpoints and manual saving under certain conditions. there's an ability that slows things down and ♥♥♥♥♥ up the screen, can be chosen to be maxed out on startup, but basic accessibility shouldn't be an unlock. and it should be actual pause if it's called 'realtime with pause', not just slow motion with a headache-inducing effect. and speaking of slow, sprinting for 3 seconds, then waiting for it to recharge shouldn't be allowed in games anymore. also, enemy scaling (and respawning cameras) is one of the laziest things a developer can do, removing any sense of progression. what they should've done instead is ui scaling. decent settings otherwise but not mentioning any of these on the store page and asking 25 bucks back in 2015 is a joke.

Great spiritual successor to the classic 90s Syndicate. Top down isometric with a cyberpunk atmosphere. Love what they did here.

great game, plays like a modern re-incarnation of Syndicate and Syndicate Wars

I thought that after hacking ATMs, researches would get funds out of them, not emptying my account. Be prepared to spend a lotta time with guides and tutorials and reading and essentially getting the satisfaction out of piecing together the mechanics of this game more that out of this game alone. It is still pretty good, but you gotta invest time in this before feeling like it's rewarding. Also the NPC hijacking and cloning, then applying to your squad is cool.

One of the most funny and entertaining games around, awesome atmosphere, background history, soundtrack and gameplay, specially in multiplayer It allows you to do as you please in the quests, builds and everything else, you can just go and create a fuzz and mayhem in the city for no reason or as a distraction to complete a misson. A mix of isometric RPG with Tatical RPG and Sandbox. So unique that nobody has ever made anything like it. Im trying to find a replacement for this game on Steam for years now, havent found it yet and I dont think Ill ever will.

Nostalgia for Syndicate is strong with this one.

I played this games years ago when it first came out but didn't get very far, and recently jumped back in as I remembered enjoying the gameplay. For a kickstarter project that had limited funding, this game is quite good, the gameplay is real time (with optional pause) squad based combat in a semi open world that is focused on various heists you perform to move the story forward and get upgrades for your squad. Combat is actually the least interesting part of the game for me as the stealth, and various methods of bypassing obstacles and enemies are all what I enjoy the most, for example you can highjack enemy soldiers with your hacker and have them open gates or scout the enemy base for you, and you can even use highjacked bodies to upgrade your squadmembers. All in all it still holds up today in 2024 and there really arn't any other games quite like it which is a shame because while it is enjoyable you can see that it was limited in scope due to its budget. I would absolutely love a modern take on this game that fleshed out more mechanics and had a bigger, more interactive world, but this game is worth checking out.