Satellite Reign

Очень!

Cyberpunk atmosphere, but top-down. Games looks good. However, game mechanics and flow are not as intuitive. It is basically just doing missions and upgrading stuff,

quite annoying game play mechanics already in the tutorial. forget it. not going to waste any more time on this one.

Nice

Before I get into the meat of it, I must say I don't like these types of games, and as my backlog grows ever larger, I find myself giving games I got for free less and less of my time. So Satellite Reign. It lost me pretty quickly. I didn't even get past the tutorial. The controls are...not comfortable, and it's clunky to do anything other than walk. Some stuff requires a right click, some left, some you have to hold alt while clicking. And if you come under attack, you're dead before you can even figure out how to fire back. As for coming under attack, I believe the whole point of the game is to avoid this. The trouble is, the police patrolling around seem to want you dead for whatever reason. Sometimes they leave me alone, sometimes not. There are restricted areas that basically say, "yeah, don't get seen," but other places where you can walk freely, they attack randomly too. It was at one such time that my party came under attack, and thanks to the clunky, awkward controls, I am not certain I ever even returned fire. Seriously- try selecting four characters, equipping them with weapons, and then trying to figure out if you need to right or left click, (or is it a double click), while being gunned down by half a dozen ticked off enforcers of the law. After being obliterated, I dropped the prototype something or other I had just stolen, respawned 6 lightyears away, and slowly had to walk back, occasionally sprinting for a whopping 3 seconds before my characters got all tuckered out. But hey, it only takes like 30 seconds for them to catch their breath again. In case you missed the sarcasm, it's a long time, considering how big the maps are and how slow you move. Anywho, I couldn't find the thing I dropped again, and there was no quest marker to inform me of where it was, so I just walked around, hoping to come across it. Instead I wandered into a fun looking place that was not restricted, and was murdered post-haste. Yeah, I've had enough. If I liked this genre, I definitely would have put more time into it, but meh. If you like these top down, stealth, slow-moving strategy games, then you'll probably like this.

Blocking bug during the tutorial... -.-