Shardpunk

This game punches way above it's weight

Good mechanics, good music, good challenge. Satisfying.

I bought the game 2 days ago, and i'm having a great time exploring what i assume is the UK. Personally feel the difficulty for a first run was nailed just right on medium, and i can see myself enjoy hard mode once i understand the mechanics a little more, if you enjoy turn based tactics with a dash of survival resource management, then buy Shardpunk. Pro: - Simple to learn combat mechanics with enough depth to entertain you for a few runs. - Chapters and encounters are well paced, not too long or short, with enough loot that you'll never be truly tapped for resources, but rarely feel like you have enough to consider yourself safe. - Each chapter has a few routes you can take, allowing you to pick which fight sounds most doable to you, or allowing you to fast track whatever route has the best looting options. - The characters, while somewhat devoid of story, will occasionally call out encouragement to the others, making them feel a little more alive. con: - Armor values on the ratogres seems a bit high, if you didn't get any shred or pierce by the time they show up you'll likely spend a turn or two chipping at a brick wall with malicious intent. - Dodge is a somewhat irritating mechanic, as you cannot predict what an enemy can dodge, later in the game, stronger enemies will occasionally flaunt your 100% hit chance and tell you to go suck it ("it" being a dagger) - While each of the characters clearly has some backstory and personality, it isn't explored, and i do feel a little more time spent exploring each character's story just a wee bit more could have paid off. - That's it, i don't have any other cons.

Dope game.

Fun rogue-like survival fighter. cool aesthetic and nice variety of skills, weapons, enemies etc. Had a hard time stopping for the night.

"Иногда вы будете чувствовать недостаток ресурсов и значительное превосходство в количестве со стороны противника, вам будет казаться, что игра слишком сложная, её невозможно пройти, вы будете подавлены и расстроены - всё так и должно быть, это часть экспиренса". Собственно, так оно и есть. Игра интересная, сложная, финальные миссии иногда слишком сложные, и иногда хочется скорее игру завершить, чтобы этот опыт закончился. Когда продвигаешься по миссиям и твой тактический гений нагибает противника, ты радуешься. А когда один незапланированный промах или недочёт в плане ведёт к серьёзным потерям, или в финальных миссиях практически проигрываешь чувствуешь себя подавленным. Особенно расстраивает отсутствие возможности сохраниться, хотя бы между актами. Потому что проигрыш в финале игры и минус 10-15? часов - очень сильно расстраивает. В общем и целом любителям тактических пошаговых РПГ - рекомендую. Вторую часть хотелось бы чутка попроще. Оценка первой 8/10.

Just what I needed and I didn't even know it. Killing rats, check. Upgrade characters, check. Seat of your pants tactics, check. Overwatching an insane amount with the sniper, check. I was extremely lucky to beat this on my first play through, thank you for the restart mission feature, made my life a little easier. I had a real blast with this game, even before I overloaded the core. If you like turn based tactics this is a must play. 10/10 for me. I'm keeping an eye open for Shardpunk 2. Really glad I bought this. Fully satisfied, check.

Little bit hard but with joy

I should have played this sooner. Yeah it's basically pixel XCOM, but the art and style is very awesome, and there are some very cool new mechanics. The rogue-like nature of needing to manage your supplies vary carefully combined with the general objective to "just escape" makes the battles feel quite different in a good way.

Not really well balanced, which is very sad as the core mechanics would be good. On normal difficulty starting from around campaign level 4 (after like 3 hours playing), single enemies out of big groups get unbeatable they have so many hp and armor. So you basically "run" through the level, leaving all the lotable places untouched. This kind of gameplay will ofcourse weaken your team further down the path. At around level 6 its getting increasingly boring and dull because you have to restart the level several times to get somehow through. Would not recommend im sorry. And no its not becuase its "hard", its because the gameplay is not well balanced.