RNG will make or break your playthrough, but I've never had so much fun restarting a campaign over and over again.

There's good and bad on both sides of it, but if players needed to know any one thing before buying, it's that the game suffers from a side-pan glitch that makes the game unplayable until your cpu is restarted (sometimes more than once). That this issue reoccurs at random is annoying; that this has persisted since the game's launch is nothing short of frustrating. According to Steam forums, Klei has only suggested that it may be your mouse (it's not), and seeing that those date back to 2015, it's clear they mean to leave the game in this state.

Obviously, I've recommended the title, so hear me out:
- The game is, overall, really well balanced, rewarding careful strategy in a way that is satisfying to both beginner and experienced gamers.
- There are countless different combinations of starting load-outs that work towards a winning strategy.
- And it's not bad to lose: even a failed campaign yields EXP towards new agents and programs.
- Splinter Cell meets X-Com: a very unique take on the stealth genre.

Now for the bad:
- I've already mentioned the heavy RNG aspect, which will spawn some pretty unfortunate circumstances that only the luckiest and most prepared players will get through without calling the mission a bust and rushing for the exit.
- Not to mention the side-pan glitch (the screen locks in a downward scroll like your mouse fell off the desk). A simple restart usually does the trick, but leaving such a huge issue to come and go at random is less than satisfying.
- It amazes me how a game with such a small file size runs so poorly on start-up. Even simple movement animation will lag and stumble for the first ten minutes or so of the game, and I've never once seen a smooth KD animation.

All that being said, there really is no other game like it, and it's a welcome addition to my library.

RNG will make or break your playthrough, but I've never had so much fun restarting a campaign over and over again. There's good and bad on both sides of it, but if players needed to know any one thing before buying, it's that the game suffers from a side-pan glitch that makes the game unplayable until your cpu is restarted (sometimes more than once). That this issue reoccurs at random is annoying; that this has persisted since the game's launch is nothing short of frustrating. According to Steam forums, Klei has only suggested that it may be your mouse (it's not), and seeing that those date back to 2015, it's clear they mean to leave the game in this state. Obviously, I've recommended the title, so hear me out: - The game is, overall, really well balanced, rewarding careful strategy in a way that is satisfying to both beginner and experienced gamers. - There are countless different combinations of starting load-outs that work towards a winning strategy. - And it's not bad to lose: even a failed campaign yields EXP towards new agents and programs. - Splinter Cell meets X-Com: a very unique take on the stealth genre. Now for the bad: - I've already mentioned the heavy RNG aspect, which will spawn some pretty unfortunate circumstances that only the luckiest and most prepared players will get through without calling the mission a bust and rushing for the exit. - Not to mention the side-pan glitch (the screen locks in a downward scroll like your mouse fell off the desk). A simple restart usually does the trick, but leaving such a huge issue to come and go at random is less than satisfying. - It amazes me how a game with such a small file size runs so poorly on start-up. Even simple movement animation will lag and stumble for the first ten minutes or so of the game, and I've never once seen a smooth KD animation. All that being said, there really is no other game like it, and it's a welcome addition to my library.