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This game is incredible and one of the best in its genre.

Although its not the first of its kind, it certainly is the one which gave the genre a huge boost.
It is still one of the best 'enemy hell' games out there, even though there are now many clones.

• Very low price (I got this for €3,99).
  
• You can easily get dozens of hours of fun out of this game.
  
• The controls are very simple. So, even people with accessibility needs may be able to play this game.
  
• Huge amount of achievements.
  
• More selectable/varied characters than other games in this genre.
  
• More maps than most other games in this genre.
  
• The maps are far more interesting than other games in this genre. The maps are not all simply infinitely repeating.
  
• There are 'goals' to get to and things to find in the different maps. So, not just aimlessly wandering around.

• Once you get a lot of upgrades, the sessions take too long.

Important: I played this game with my children of 6 and 8 years old. I let them play and think about the puzzles. I gave them hints if they couldn't figure out a level. Sometimes I had to help them with the controls because some levels require many correct steps to be performed in succession, which is difficult for a small child.

So, if you play with children it's a thumbs up.
If you play as an adult, it's a meh (thumbs side-ways, so to say).

• Very low price (I got this for €0,54 during a sale).
  
• Kid friendly. A great way to spend some time with them.
  
• The puzzles are simple, but still requires children to think about the solutions.
  
• Regarding the game's length; If you are playing this game with a child, then it's about the right length.
  
• The visuals are cartoonish and easy to understand. I wouldn't call them pretty, but certainly pleasant enough.

• If you are playing this game without a child, then the game is quite short.
  
• If you are playing this game without a child, then the puzzles are too easy.
  
• The story is quite boring for adults, but too convoluted for small children.
  
• The ending was very unexciting; it ended with a whimper. A bit of a let-down, really. Even my children asked me, 'That's all we get for all that work'?

Ok, this is a disappointment.

• It's Arkanoid
  
• Retro mode

• Every level has an annoying neon look.
  
• You cannot use the keyboard to move the paddle
  
• Retro mode has annoying background noise
  
• Retro mode plays from a 2.5d perspective. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
  
• Newer modes only use 1/3 of the screen because the levels are in portrait mode. This game feels like a cheap mobile phone port.

This one gets a thumbs up from me.
This game improves on the original game (Geometric sniper) in terms that actually matter.

• Very low price (€1,59 at review time, but I got it in a bundle for €0.51 for this game and the original game (Geometric Sniper)
  
• Multiple fun game modes. I can see myself returning to this game at some later date.
  
• None of the bugs of the original games are here that I could detect.
  
• Unlike the first game, there is almost no time wasted. From the start of a level you can immediately start hunting down your targets.
  
• There is a cheat option in the menu which will help you locate enemy snipers. Without this option I would have quit this game and would have given it a thumbs down.
  
• Maybe my imagination, but in the original game I sometimes missed a shot. In this game the hitbox seems to be more accurate and/or more forgiving.

• The game is VERY short. I finished the campaign in under 30 minutes! On the other hand, there are other game modes that you can play for quite some time.
  
• Bad design : The enemy snipers are ridiculous. You only have about 5 to 10 seconds to kill them. They are extremely un-fun. I needed the cheat option in the menu to get through the campaign levels.
  
• Bad design : The 'story' is something maybe a child would write. The game would have been better without it.

This one gets a thumbs down from me... barely. If there was a 'meh' option, I would have chosen that instead (mainly because of the low price).

• Very low price (€1,59 at review time, but I got it in a bundle for €0.51 for this game and the sequel Geometric Sniper Blood in Paris)
  
• Multiple game modes

• The game is VERY short. I finished the campaign in under an hour! I tried the other modes for a bit, but I had my fill. I will do the 'Find mode' with my kids to see whether they like it.
  
• Bug : The game has a bunch of spelling and grammatical errors. Is it really too much to ask to have someone proofread your product?
  
• Bug : The game didn't want to go to fullscreen for me. There are no display options, so I tried <ALT+ENTER> to go to fullscreen. It works for less than a second. It goes to fullscreen and then immediately reverts to windowed mode.
  
• Bug? : After finishing the campaign you can retry missions to improve your score. So, I retried mission 1 and improved my time from 1:35 to 0:47 seconds. Oddly enough, my world ranking score didn't change. I then played it again and took 6 seconds. Now, the stats showed I did my 3 attempts in an average of 2 seconds! My world ranking score improved, but the average made NO sense.
  
• Bad design : This game wastes your time on purpose on some missions. You sometimes have to wait a minute or two before the target is killable. You literally have to wait the timer out. Yes, the game Hitman has this too but there you can do other stuff as well while waiting for your target.
  
• Bad design : Between missions you have to click some things like a gun or some photos. There are no indicators that you have to do that, so the first time I thought it was a bug. I had to look up a playthrough to discover you had to click them instead of the tablet which starts a new mission.
  
• Bad design : The 'story' is something maybe a child would write. The game would have been better without it.

Even though I have a lot of cons, I absolutely find the game worth it.
If you like turn based strategy games then I can wholeheartedly recommend this game.
I REALLY hope they will make a sequel!

• Somewhere half-way the game after you have unlocked most things the game really shines. Some things your characters can do are very useful and fun.
  
• The level with the disco/club was fantastic. Pretty hard and very satisfying.
  
• I like how it looks. Not just the graphical fidelity, but also the '70s style/theme.
  
• The voice acting is ok-ish. Not great, but good enough.

• The biggest gripe I have with this game by far is that it is possible to start a level that you cannot finish. I've had this happen on multiple occasions. For some levels you MUST select the correct characters and equipment, or you'll discover after more than an hour that you are doomed and will have to restart the level.
  This is unconscionable!
  
• Not all characters are equally useful. It's a shame really because you end up selecting the same characters over and over again.
  
• A lot of the levels cannot be 100% completed because your characters haven't unlocked the right skills yet. So, if you are a completionist you'll have to replay every level.
  
• The last 2 levels is where they went too far. Instead of interesting 'puzzle' solving it devolves into dozens and dozens of tedious reloads because the timing is juuuuuuust off. A lot of puzzle game have this same flaw; they are fun but then the developer goes too far and it is just busy work.
  
• The user interface is not great. Some actions you perform automatically select the character, but some other actions you perform do not. This has led to a huge amount of 'mis-clicks' leading to me scrambling to correct it or even having to reload a savegame.

This game is free and is really nice.
It's basically Elite, but then a bit simpler. Because it's free you can just try it out.

Highly recommended!

This is a very disappointing game. I had this game on my wishlist for years and decided to buy it in a bundle when it was very cheap. I love stealth games, but unfortunately this one is very boring and the combat is extremely clunky/unsatisfactory.

Stay away from this game.

This is one of those cases where an option between thumbs up and thumbs down would be useful.
I was sort of entertained by this prologue/demo, but doubt whether I want to buy this game to play again.

This game is free and works quite well. The amount of levels you get for free (a few hundred) are really VERY generous!
The only thing I would have liked to see is that when a '0' is encountered, automatically all the hexagons around it would be cleared.

Big thumbs up!