Chains of Freedom

The game is not short, there is balance, and you will need to care about tactics - and about your ammo, which you will find and craft. I did not face a single bug in my 10+ hours of play. Now, about the cons—at a later stage of the game, some enemies of a "summoner" type will spawn annoying tiny monsters that will make fights much longer and... annoying. Really annoying, repetitive and unnecessarily long. I would also prefer to see more "personal", unique character skills.

It seems decently put together. My only grudges are, I can't use abilities outside of combat, and it frequently crashes on changes of levels.

The one thing that can kill your tactical turn-based strategy game is bad RNG. The enemies feel like they never miss, and it feels like your abilities never proc as often as they should. So when I have a 1% chance efffect happen three times in one fight but my sniper with 45% crit only scores 1 critical hit, I question why I would bother wasting more of my time playing? Enemies are spongy, supplies are limited, and reinforcements/back-line enemies that summon more enemies are prevalent. New spawns pop-in on top of or behind you so you're suddenly flanked. Heaps of missing QOL features like basic item comparison or fast scroll/zoom. Honestly, I got this one discounted and I still feel like I paid too much. It is a shame, because the story is engaging (but also slow, this game is so, so slow), the voice acting is fantastic for a budget title, it runs well enough, graphics and art design are aligned, etc. There are a ton of positives to say, but the forced stealth sections take place in real-time and you have to try and juggle each part memeber individually while all the enemies move in unison. Wait until the devs make a few QOL update passes/upgrade to the RNG before you waste your time and money.

combats are challenging (especially with the time limit and resource scarcity), without being too repetitive, story is okay.