Recent reviews by Blackmagic

Just brilliant

Another "indie difficulty" game... I tried to stay away from wikis and videos since I am a game designer I thought I would be good to go and understand what the game conveys.

Good thing : the game is beautiful, it's a treat for the eyes.

Less good things :
On the normal settings, the game is insanely hard and frustrating, most skills are learned through wikis and forums which is quite bad design, there is not much systems to lean by yourself. And when you think you understood how to survive a bit, a new system or a new boss come and crush your base again. Another problem is there is no satisfying ending in sight, like factorio where you send the satellite. You just die, learn a bit repeat, get a new crash system in the face.
In multiplier, the revive mechanic isn't even as competent as some 20 years old games like Diablo or even Dark Souls. When you die you are punished for reviving, you lose items AND Max hp, who does this...
You can use server modifiers to make the game passable but it actually takes some skill to understand how to do it properly in a way it makes senses.
Many UI's are subpar.
You don't even have semblance of health bar for opponent in case you want to use the combat systems.
The game on a regular setting feels like 20-30% too hard.
The defensive non lethal weapons are improbably hard to build.
Most biomes are way too large
Time should be dilated by 25%, there are a lot of days you cannot do anything else beside grinding food.

Now I'll drag my sorry ass to youtube to try to understand what I missed.
Maybe I am just bad but I did most of other coop games without that much frustration.

So sorry but in its current state, I cannot recommend the game, it still has to get a good look in the mirror and forge a "challenging but not idiotic mode", I suggest you check out Subnautica, Valheim or Factorio before this one.

Awesome game

Very pleasant take on the commandos-like games. Eveything is fluid and beautiful, levels are rich, deep and characters are well designed. Recommended

Very fun game, with good enough balance albeit a lot of grind. For 10 bucks you can have a lot of value and games are really interesting, well done.

Legendary game.

Pretty efficient, fun and varied, to be played in coop.

Fantastic to play with a few friends.

Too many things to say:
- The game is full of bugs, walk and shoot throught closes door/walls like it's paper, animations, wasted turns, ai's soft lockinh
- Even in easy some missions are ridiculously difficult and I finished X-Com in Hard. And I just wanted to play in easy...
- Some Breaching situations are ridiculous the procedural attribution is not mastered well.
- Surprise mfcker, after bleeding half your team, 3 more waves even before being able to properly upgrade guns. Come on at least gimme the droid forces, no ?
- Writing is really questionnable, even for as a progressist myself and played a lot of progressist games, it feels forced and faked, some quips are dubious.
- Random is still a PITA. 100% misses are still here. Shotgun CAC can still miss.
- The timeline is just a huge gameplay regression.
- Overwatch has been nerfed a lot and doesn't have stopping power...pretty much annihilating what could have been fun with the timelines...

Overall buy Gears Tactics, it does every single points much much much better. Don't waste your time on this time.

Frankly I am disappointed. XCom is a huge cash machine, it deserves so much better especially since Gears Tactics and many other have shown the way to go.

Very disappointing by the staggering amount of failures.

Very good game on most aspects, totally deserves to be bought if you like MTG or HS.