I just finished the game and enjoyed myself a lot. Hunting achievements and doing all side quests was just as much fun as following the main storyline. At times, there is a quirky kind of humour in the dialogues which I liked. I have a lot of hours in the game but for maybe 10-15 hours the game was idling while I was doing something else. If you're more of a streamlined gamer (unlike me) you'll finish it probably in 40 hours or less.

This is no doubt a really good game. It is not without its flaws, but it does most things really well:

Pros:
+ Very cool visuals - great artwork with attention to detail, all aspects of the game have polished visuals.
+ Nice level designs and layouts. The areas are varied and lend themselves to intricate turn-based battles.
+ Sound design is one of the strongest parts of Miasma Chronicles. The voices are well spoken and relatable, dynamic music and sounds are spot-on and atmospheric. It all sets the mood nicely.
+ Kills and hits in battle scenes are often animated from the shooter's perspective, which helps immersion nicely.
+ Apart from one area where there is a known bug issue (see forums), the game runs pretty flawlessly.
+ Combat mechanics are pretty solid - you can easily tell how much damage you will make unless your hit chance is low. Positioning is everything here.

Cons:
- The game seems to have resource-hungry spikes that make some of the activities on-screen stutter or lag at times. This happens mostly during combat, in particular when the game engine tries to play out the action in first-person view.
- The user interface could be more intuitive and logical. A lot of aspects of party and inventory management are quite clunky. For instance, if you want to customise weapons, you can't do this from the inventory screen, but only in the party screen, and when said weapon is equipped. This could have been implemented better. Likewise, when accessing the backpack in fights, you need to scroll through all the consumables with the Q and E keys, which is cumbersome. There is more but these are just 2 examples.
- While the voice acting is pretty darn good, the dialogues can be corny and "too much" at times. I hated it at first, but when you get to know the main characters it isn't that abrasive any more.

All in all I can confidently recommend Miasma Chronicles for any fan of story-rich games with turn-based combat.

It's a good game and you should play it BUT:
If you haven't played Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, you should play Miasma Chronicles first, MYZ second.
Those who have played Mutant Year Zero, shouldn't view Miasma Chronicles as an upgrade but a sidegrade.
It's best to meet the game on it's own terms, not compare it. And as with every good advice I give others, I won't follow it myself.
Pros:
The devs did a good job to fill the world with believable combat arenas. You always get a sandbox feeling and it's realy fun.
Also the stealth is unique to MYZ and MC, where you thin out the herd before engaging in the real battle.
Also I liked most charakters or disliked them for their charakter. Now this is no RPG with choices. Dialogues are linear and have always the same outcome.
The graphics and worldbuilding are pretty good. Animations are a bit stiff but it didn't bother me at all.
The scaling to lategame is unique: You get skill points and a few max. HP with every levelup. Your skills are often passives or a few dots, but nothing incredibly overpowered, despite a few skills. Damage progression comes purely from equipment, wich works pretty well, because you can't get to op.
Now the Problems:
This game feels rushed at the end. In one area you get 2 major reveals and 1 major plot point. After that you have the last boss fight. This gets a bit weird because Elvis dislikes what is revealed but still cheers, when the mates he dislikes score a crit. Good sportmanship I guess.
It is buggy and I mean it had no "small" bugs for me, but 2 pretty major bugs. Once I lost a weapon after an arena fight. Reloading solved it. The second one was more important. I got XP everytime I entered stealth combat and left it, without any action. If I'd wanted, I could have been max level in act 1 of 3.
The Miasma powers are what makes Elvis (the protagonist) stand out among everyone else but most of your powers are pretty underwhelming. Especially considering that it uses a resource that can't be simply regenerated, just with consumables or skipping a turn (if skilled) or with special weapon attachements. But once you got the ressource it's simply the... most underwhelming thing I've ever seen. You can summon stuff, wich is nice, you can do a chain lightning with 20 dmg (your starting weapons do 50 ?). So chain lightning with 20 dmg or just a shotgun doing 60 dmg where you can combine it with a dot. Considering the Miasma is what killed the world and those who could control it fought a war against giant robots, I was disappointed.
The cover system is a mess. In all 30+ hours I played the enemy missed twice or thrice. I missed more often with 80+ chances. However, I got reliable crits as long as I got the chance over 50 %. It's a mess. My guess is, that the AI only shoots, when it KNOWS it will hit. So it doesn't if it knows it would miss. However this gave me the impression that I could simply stand out in the open and get shot there instead of being shot while in cover. Cover should have dmg reduction effect as well. This fact made me give everyone a shotgun and just run into the groups of enemies.
Lastly you could just watch the trailer for MYZ and MC and compare the fights. Both have the same mechanics but MYZ has dynamically destructable enviroments. I had fights there, where half of the buildings where destroyed. And you don't get to fight a giant robot...

To be clear: I am not mixed in my opinion, I definitely recommend it. It just lacks a few things, you get from MYZ, but it is still enjoyable.

I was really excited to try this game as I enjoy XCOM style games and really enjoyed Mutant Year Zero. However, after 3 hours, the balance just seems awful and leaves me with a lot of frustration. I'm playing on normal difficulty and I'm getting rocked every fight. There are too many enemies that seem to have much better accuracy than your characters and they deal too much damage.

You get Jade in your party rather early and she has a silenced sniper rifle that you can use to pick off enemies that walk away from their group to make a fight easier. This is absolutely required to do because you won't win the fight if you don't. The problem here is it doesn't feel challenging or satisfying to do, it just feels tedious. Even after you pick off as many enemies as you can, with how much better the enemies' accuracy seems to be, you'll find yourself saving/reloading after every miss in order to stand a chance even on normal difficulty.

Another thing I dislike about the combat is how much of the abilities are locked behind the upgrade tree. Some of the abilities will be very familiar to you as a tactics fan. The main problem is the whole skill tree is just uninspired. Some of them are just "Get 20 extra HP" while others are "unlock overwatch." Overwatch shouldn't be something one character has to unlock, that has been a staple in tactics games for years, everyone should have that!

It's just frustrating for no reason. The game looks great but the combat is a bit uninspired and feels like too much of a chore.