Most tactical turn-based games I’ve played have combat as a core function – you don’t want to engage with enemies without a plan, and it’s critical to get the jump on enemies, but often part of the win condition is to lethally remove enemy pieces from the battlefield.
Also like Into the Breach, each round brings a limited-use rewind feature, pulling back one turn in case you’ve realized what a catastrophic mistake was made.īut it’s downplaying the lethal options that allows other features of this genre to shine. Every choice is important, and ultimately sets the stage for victory, or sets up a trap of your own making.
Using action points each turn effectively, rationing power to hack terminals via Incognita, and deciding when to engage with enemies versus trying to sneak around them evokes similar feelings I had of Into the Breach. It creates this great tension knowing that every extra turn taken will result in more danger. Each passing turn, if a guard is alerted of your presence, or hacking of a fixture that has daemons (think malware) fills a segment, and once it’s been filled completely, the alarm level increases, bringing with it additional obstacles to navigate such as increased guard presence or re-engaging cameras that were taken out earlier. Scattered throughout are side missions, such as collecting credits via hacking terminals with the assistance of Incognita, the AI assistant who also can reprogram scouting bots, disable laser barriers or surveillance cameras, and other neat tools as long as you have power, a resource that you can gain in-between each turn as well as collect on-site.Īn alarm level is displayed in the corner, segmented in five pieces. Each level has two primary objectives – one example would be accessing a terminal or rescuing an imprisoned agent, and the other objective is to find the escape elevator of the building you’re infiltrating. After ending your turn, the enemy team gets their turn to do the same. Each agent has action points spendable as a shared resource - either by moving across tile spaces of the level or using character abilities. If you’re new to the genre, turn-based tactical strategy games play out in, well, turns.
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