Great turn-based strategy game. The reviews gave me doubts but I'm glad I ended up buying on sale. If you loved XCOM, then you're almost guaranteed to enjoy this. My main complaints are the lack of mission variety and I wish that the campaign was longer, but I still think you'll get your moneys worth (on sale). I also wish there was more weapon variety as it's only your base weapons that you can upgrade with attachments. Overall, I enjoyed what I played.

At first I thought this would be just pointless spin-off without much thought, but in the end I got a great X-COM like strategy game. The mechanics are fun and intuitive, shooting or chainsawing locusts is great as always, even in strategic view and element. The graphics are awesome as well, cutscenes are as good as mainline games. Surprisingly good.

Overall, it's an enjoyable game. While it might not be quite as deep as the Xcom games, it makes a lot of worthwhile improvements to the formula: using your actions in any order you want, multiple overwatch shots per action point remaining, pretty deep skill tree, and more. It also does a good job organically incentivising aggressive tactics with the executions. It's worth playing if you like tactics games, and either have, or don't mind making an xbox account.

Pretty good turn-based strategy game. It scratched my Xcom itch a bit but isn't nearly as good.

really fun tactical game

If you like Turn-based Tactics games, give Gears Tacticts a try!

It does not have a world map or base building like XCOM, but the Turn-based Tactics gameplay is spot on, putting some emphasis on your characters being heroes (e.g. enemies can be downed and then executions give all other team mates an extra AP). The skill trees and looted weapon mods and armor make for some nice progression and varieties in possible playstyles for the 4 main classes.

I only played the "full content" campaign for now, which brings "Jack", a robot helper, as the fifth squad member, allowing for some new game mechanics - and also brings improved enemies to the game.
This DLC/update also brought a graphics overhaul to he game, making the game look quite good on the map and in cutscenes. The story is quite OK and the voice overs are fitting. The campaign is a mix of fixed story missions and sets of proc gen in between side missions with a variety of objective types and some bonus objectives, limitations and team/enemy modifiers to mix things up. You generally have to complete 3 out of 4 side missons to advance and can only bring each soldier once into a set of side missions. After the final battle of the campaign (and I guess base game), you can go on with increasingly tougher "veteran missions" for an extended challenge.

As this was originally a console game, I want to say that the keyboard & mouse controls are very intuitive and good here - no complaints. Also adapted quite well for ultra wide monitors. AND there is almost no bugs at all, only some wonky physics at times and one time I had a character walk around with a 90 degree bent torso in a single cutscene - nothing wild.

Overall I can warmheartedly recommend Gears Tactics :)