Another designer that never testplayed his difficulty settings.

Frankly the only way to play his difficulty is to use guardian and abuse invincibility as ♥♥♥♥, yeah that ONE hero carries 90% of high difficulty games. Don't be fooled by the hero roster, 80% of it can't get past the first planet even on A1 or A2. It's unbalanced as ♥♥♥♥.

And the enemies, my god, can you believe they give enemies free stun/disable at the beginning of turn, AOE one-shot kill with no charge time (that hammer ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) and can't be delayed even if you have a instant skill. Hopefully there's guardian otherwise certain enemies are just game-over when it glances at you.

These ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ don't just one-shot you, they also have to do it instantly(so you can't interrupt it), additionally, they'll randomly stun one of your team-mates at beginning of turn(passively!!). What the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world is this?

I feel the enemies are actually the player, paid player, whale of this game, and i'm just some random dude brainlessly (yeah the tactics are really simple out of those boring-ass fights) retrying entire i get a run that is:
1. No crazy-ass immune/constant frenzy/one-shot AOE/instant team-wipe/endless amount of regeneration/all other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
2. Getting items that's kinda relevant to my build, (most times the loot box give you 3 item that's the wrong type and my entire team can't even equip it!)
3. Some good-hearted animals accidentally unleshes diarrhea upon the designer's dead parents' tomb.

Let me give you another example:
normal designer: this enemy will gain frenzy when it receives fire damage(because it's using flame).
Abnormal designer of this game: this enemy unit will gain frenzy when it receives damage.
and this is on the first planet, so you have ZERO ways to remove frenzy, and it's gonna remove all stagger mechanics and one-shot your tank.

WHAT IS THE COUNTER PLAY TO THIS? ! I can't deal damage? am i supposed to stare it to death?!

I don't know why i'm so pissed now with all these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in game design, like these designers has ZERO education, and ZERO fun in their mind, how could such parentless boring ♥♥♥♥♥♥ even exist?!
What a world we live in? Remaining a sane person amongst these stupid aholes makes me insane!!

Conclusion is simple: these so-called designers, never considered their high difficulties part of the product value. In their mind, it's for people that's keen on torturing themselves, so they put in something that they had ZERO ideas and ZERO intention of balancing about, then they call it a day.

Plus, any designer that doesn't testplay his difficulty settings, deserves a negative review.

Being a roguelite, pixel art and cyberpunk/mecha fan, you need to get this. At first I hated it, even refunded. But I've been since playing again on another platform and having a blast. Will buy again on Steam on the next sale.

Combat system is very enjoyable, although somewhat hard until you grasp it's "delay enemy's action" premise. Pixel art animations are beautiful and class choices are meaningful. Some concepts are useful in Cyberpunk TTRPGs aswell, so I'd recommend game masters to at least give it a try because of that.

I really wanted to like this game. Sci fi settings are an all time favorite of mine, and I've been known to be partial to a good rougelike too. The combat mechanics are fairly interesting, and the art is nice, but the narrative just totally failed to hook me in any way. The minute dialogue started, my investment just started fading away. I can't put my finger on the exact reason the writing fails so badly, the characters and world just feel so.... uninteresting. Something about it feels very reddit-esque, and the whole thing ends up being unable to conjure any investment whatsoever, at least for me. I'm definitely glad I got this one on sale.