Satellite Reign is in a paradoxical state of being a disappointing game despite being pretty good. Its extensive potential is sadly (once again) limited by an indie development which didn’t allow squeezing more quality because of a tight budget and so another great opportunity goes away just partially explored. Its gameplay mechanics feel unpolished and incomplete at times while the need of more production value is visible at every corner. Despite being flawed, Satellite Reign stays strong with its liberty of action reinforced by great level design and in depth mechanics which allow the players to approach the game in their own unique style.
The strains of indie development might stop Satellite Reign from achieving the greatness it deserves, but surely don’t stop it from being a cyberpunk delight that the fans of this setting are going to consume despite its problems.


Pros:
+ Amazing neon cyberpunkish style graphics
+ Great level design
+ Suitable music
+ In depth character progression and research system
+ Plenty of tactical options
+ Interesting game mechanics
+ UI design

Cons:
- Repetitive missions
- Problematic combat system
- Sluggish controls
- Performance problems
- The story needs way more development
- The city feels lifeless
- Lots of bugs

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Good game. A decent strategy and tactic-rpg. I enjoyed it for what it is.

+ Nice graphics.
+ Nice sound effects.
+ Decent enough gameplay.
+ Pretty big city to do all kinds of things in.
+ Lots of killing and blowing stuff up.
+ Lots of stealthing and sneaking.
+ Fantastic ending!

- Need HOURS of uninterrupted play time to do restricted zones due to LAME-AS-DUCK no-save-in-danger mechanic.
- Some glitches cause a character to get stuck in environment (coupled with no-save ♥♥♥♥, you have to start all over in an area).
- Some impossible/bugged achievements.
- Occasional hiccups in the overall super-fluid graphical gameplay.
- Not enough gear/aug upgrades ;-)

Played it for a few hours at a friends place/account so have more play-time. Its a nice game.
+Great Sci-Fi Steampunk atmosphere
+Solid tactical/RTS and stealth
+Beautiful graphics

CONS
-Controls and mechanics can take awhile to adjust to and not always accurate/clunky.
-I read you need a decent rig since its not optimized the best.
-A bit rough around the edges at times.

7.5/10 get on sale or its prob a bit overpriced. If you like Xcom this will probably be desired too.

I’m very much in doubt on whether to recommend this or not but this is my first impressions. I really want to like it and will give it some more time.

The things that’s been bothering me:
There’s an odd pace of perceived speed in the game but maybe it’s just because of the way I’ve played so far. Walking around the district, reading stories, learning how things work, etc. takes a long time. Then when combat comes it seems very high paced and its over almost before it has begun. Aparently you can slow the game down by upgrading a skill of one of the agents but it seems odd that this mechanic is locked for newbies.

Combat, well, maybe I’m crap but every time I’ve been in an all out firefight with all my agents I’ve lost big time. Despite using cover, moving around to better cover, I just keep dying. This feels very unsatisfying that my supposedly tough agents dies at the first sign of danger. This is of course at the start of the game without any upgrades, so they’ll get better but I really should be able to handle the enemies at my current level.

With combat being impossible, I’ve been forced to playing the stealth game making the game feel even slower. Don’t get me wrong, the stealth game is quite fun and works well, but progression just takes too long. This also means that I’m pretty much only using my hacker and the world scan ability of the support. The rest are just tag alongs.

Then there are some minor issues that keeps bothering me. Somethings the UI isn’t as intuitive as I would like and some help messages aren’t really helpful enough. Sometimes a tutorial message pops up but if I’m in the middle of moving an agent the message disappears without me getting a chance to read it, leaving me wondering and frustrated about what I’m supposed to do next. That’s terrible design, right there.

Finally, the sounds of the city seems oddly missing. The music is good and sounds following your actions are good, but you’re in a big and oddly quiet city. I’m really missing some ambience sounds. I’d also like that the NPC’s had some more to their lives than randomly wander in circles. Maybe I’ll see it with more play but in a modern game I would expect people to go about their business and having a daily routine.

The good:
The game feels and looks good, and is a good successor to the Syndicate of old. The graphics are in most cases beautiful, the theme grim and dark as it should be. The story is as you would expect if you’ve played Syndicate (this is a good thing) and there seems to be a lot of side quests you can do.

The agents are responsive and mostly good in their pathfinding around the map. The cover mechanics works good (except in those cases where cameras can see though it). Sneaking in and hacking the different terminals is a lot of fun.


I supported the Kickstarter and was thrilled to see Syndicate revived. I tried it a few times during beta but in the end, I wanted to wait until it was finished. Now that I’ve finally picked it up again I’m still unsure about it. It feels right and good but there are still some polish to do before it becomes great.

A game with tons of potential let down by some truly sloppy UI design. There's a delay on seemingly every action, and when the game is real-time and some actions demand good timing... it's an inexcusable flaw. If you can't get snappy, precise timing on actions, then don't make the game real-time! The amount of time it takes your apparently developmentally disabled units to respond to an order given and then execute it is absolutely absurd, particularly for important actions like silent assassinations.

I also ran into an issue where, after loading a game, the game forgot I had completed the tutorial earlier and started spamming the screen with the tutorial pop-ups... and there's no way of clearing those out of the way. It's very clear that, for all its strengths, Satellite Reign is held together with duct tape and spit.

As far as actual gameplay goes, it's quite fun. It's just a huge problem when you develop a real-time game and then design such ludicrous delays on so many actions. The game probably would've been fantastic as a turn-based game, but as a real-time game I'm going to have to recommend people give it a pass.

The absurd delay on units executing your commands and doing simple things like sprinting, apparently refusing to return fire even when you have their weapons out, and just general idiotic behavior by both player characters and NPCs (who don't seem to give one whit that their colleagues' corpses are strewn all about the alleyway they're patrolling around) just... I dunno. I can't recommend this game. I picked it up at half price and I still feel like I paid too much for it. There's a lot of potential but the dev seems to be focused on adding irrelevant and unimportant things like multiplayer instead of ensuring the game is responsive and the controls are tight. Playing with more than one person would just mean more than one person is simultaneously ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off at the sloppy controls.

Do note that I played this game mainly while I had no access to internet. The estimated time I spent on this game is around 30-40+ hours.

Gameplay wise I will say that it is quite fun. I spent quite a lot of my time while not playing thinking about it. It is a game that makes you think and plan before going in, though there are times where you'll need to think on the spot when things didn't go as plan or when you misplaned.

Pros:
-Each team members felt needed, they don't seemed totally unnessary.
-Enemey AI is pretty great, it is able to react realistically most of the time. Not stupid ai nor map hack ai, just right.

Cons:
-A few game breaking bugs that could be solved by reloading. Encountered 3 of them in my whole playthrough.
--Not sure if pathfinding failed or collision failed, but i managed to glitch through the ground once.
--Another glitched through the wall where it should be inaccessible, allowing my characters to be stuck there and got murdered by the onslught of enemies, unable to escape :<
--Escaping into a corner that should be accessible, but unable to get out of it afterwards(nothing could be seen blocking)

-Pathfinding again, for when stealth killing enemies. Sometimes the character will stop at one spot and just twitch, unable to find which path is better to reach the enemy.

An excellent spiritual successor to Syndicate!

A BRIEF SUMMARY:
- Pretty, Sleek, Cyberpunk, with well made UI and controls.
- Real-time game play makes this very engaging
- A good variety of enemies, weapons, upgrades and play styles.
- Engaging light RPG elements.
- Online and local coop make this a must have.
- Some minor issues with multiplayer sync and clipping into walls, but overall a very well polished game!

Loved this GAME! I'm huge fan of Shadowrun, but this was ever better.
Game give you lots of options for solving problems:

If your breaking into a facility and there are cameras you can solve this in a variety of ways; sneak around them, cut the power, hack in and put them on a loop, or just shoot them with your gun. This is just one of many examples of how the game lets you change the way you approach different missions. You can post a sniper and clear the area or just detonate the door and go in guns blazing. Or maybe hack the brains of the enemy soldier so they start fighting each other as a distraction, or have them join you and start building an army to clear the place out with (I always found that to be the slowest method since reinforcements are endless).

There is a lot of mission variety too. Stealing: prototypes, information, money. Rescue. Assainate. Sneak in a spy. Hack in to their network. Even as you approach the mission you can take the bruteforce method or gather intel: pay off a disgruntled employee or do a few favor for them to make the job easier.

If you buy it for the coop: DONT. The game is playable in coop, but the game design and the level design are not adapted:

When you play solo, you control 4 agents and you always have something to do. When you play coop with 3 friends, you control only 1 of the 4 agents. And each of them is very specialized. So, in a lot of situations, you have nothing to do...

It's like playing an RTS where one player build the structures, a second one control the ground units, a 3rd one control the artillery and the last one control the air units. Well, actually, it's worst than that... Because it's also like playing QWOP with every player controlling a limb!

Bought game with a friend, played for 11 hours straight the first day. Slept for 8 hours, played for another 12 hours straight. This game is amazing. In what I can only describe as a hidden gem of greatness, this game is far more then worth the money. The games reviews don't do it justice since the game just recently released their multiplayer open beta, (a kickstarter goal that was never met but kindly made anyways) and the reviews are frequently before multiplayer was a thing. The game is singleplayer but it was meant to be played multiplayer. The gritty grunge feel of a futuristic dystopian world, the combat and cover system, all works smoothly in this game. Of the 23 hours I've played so far, the game has yet to have a single network hiccup, *cough i'm looking at you dark souls 3*. Highly recommend, highly addictive. Can't wait to see this studio put more games out.