TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

this game singlehandedly brought me back into the world of TRPGs and SRPGs. the UI and HUD may seem confusing at times, but behind the cluster**** of systems is an addicting gameplay loop that seduced me into playing 100+ hours. i could best describe this as a diamond in the ROUGH. this game is almost a 9/10 but too many QOL issues hold it back. since this is the first game of the studio; hopefully they can incorporate all they have learned into the development of the next game with proper story pacing, reveals, and character development; as well as fixing the small issues that bring their current gameplay formula down. dandylion earned my trust and i will keep an eye on the development of the sequel. this game and studio deserves a way larger audience than what currently surrounds it as of the time of this review.

Building & grinding for gear is pretty damn fun in this game imo. I like the characters & their distinct styles quite a bit.

A bit story-heavy between battles but it's tolerable with the 2d art, if cutscenes were done with the 3d art as is I might bolt though.

The combat is fun and kinda unforgiving depending on the difficulty you chose.
Characters have branching builds which you can swap out but note that they level separately
Each character has some unique gameplay mechanics attached to them, you could be a tamer, some battle mage, etc.

There are a lot of hidden bits you might have to grind for if you like optimization but it's mostly fun as long as it doesn't go too long with the drop rate.

I really enjoy the individual stories and progression of each of your units / characters in your party. For each character, you chose to play one of there three possible classes. You will discover well over a 100 different skills. Many are general to all characters, some are unique to the classes and a few are unique to the character. It is a lot of fun choosing the skills to use for your characters (your builds). The battles / missions can be quite challenging. I started at Normal Difficulty and changed to Hard Difficulty early on. A fantastic game !

This game is really addictive,I've played for over 100 hours now,but there more than half of its content I still haven't experienced.

I had to watch a youtube video to understand the mastery engine, but besides that it's a really fun game! If you like x-com and anime you'll probably like this game

Great game! There are so many options to optimize your 'toons' (characters) and gameplay. It's full of small details that make the game even better. In many aspects, it's even better than X-Com.

Weeb trash. Terrible translation. In the first 10 minutes I've been given about 20 popups stating that I learned some mastery.

One of the best~ I hope they could release more DLC and raise the cap of max level.

Been playing this game a long time. Its long and has ton of content. I'm always a fan of tactics games and this is high up there as far as i'm concerned.

One of the better tactical games in the genre. It's made with a lot of heart and has been expanded how many times for free.

If you're a fan of XCOM style games you will like this game. It also has a very rich upgrade system for gears, abilities etc. I'm thoroughly pleased with it.

The question is: Would I recommend this game?

I think for most people the answer is no, but the game isn't bad per se.

The story of this game feels like being dropped into season 10 of a convoluted and poorly translated anime that you've never seen before, and 40 hours later that feeling never changed. The gameplay is equally complex and layered but similarly held back by the localization. I want to like this game so badly but I cannot care about anything that's happening. Perhaps this game makes more sense in Korean, in-fact I'm sure it does, but that's not the experience I got. The drawn art is good, but graphically the game is frankly very dated looking. The music is great.

I get the impression that the developers are passionate about their work and it shows in the game, but it's not recommendable to anyone but the most forgiving and patient TRPG-obsessed players.

What a game. Pretty meh/not great story, characters are fine, designs do what they need to. But wow, gameplay loop is peak. So much fun playing the game, winning fights, getting incrementally stronger, just so much fun to play. Translation makes scenes a little more awkward and strange than they probably should be, but if you like xcom/fire emblem gameplay, this game is a 100/10 recommend.

It's a great game if you like XCOM-like strategy game, RPGs, stories of heroes and anti-heroes in a violent city, and animes visuals. The game have a lot of content, a long main story, and the strategic gameplay is solid. For that, I leave a positive review. The amount and the quality of work made by the devs is incredible.

But, it's not a game for everyone.

The game is full of micro management. For one characters, you must managed a lot of equipement pieces + navigate and chose through a ton of masteries (passive skills) + abilities (active skills). Each mission give you too many pieces of loots, a lot of them in often useless, you must identify them to be sure what is good or not, them sell them or scrap them for crafting. Later in the game, you unlock the beasts, each one with the same level of managing complexity than a main character. Same with the robots after that. It's sometimes tedious.

This game want to give players a lot of things to do, and I respect that, but it's too much. Too many little things to do, too many resources, too many user interfaces to explore between each mission. I spend more time in management than in playing, actually, and it's not a good thing, except if you love managing things and min/max stats.

If you have the time, and the patience, it's a really good game, go for it. If not, don't try it, you will be overwhelmed.

For its low price you wouldn't imagine how colossal this game is. There is a lot of stuff going on at first and can feel a bit overwhelming, but if you're playing on a reasonable difficulty level you can postpone learning things till you're on a good mindset to try them.

Some long battles and lots of JRPG-style dialogue, so you have to be comfortable with both to enjoy it.

While i did get burned out from the game, it was an absolute blast to get to the point I am, i can only recommend the dlc if you are not burned out after about 100 hours of playing this game, since it is after the main story

I read somewhere that someone reacted against spoonage, that it's silly.

Yeah, well. Isn't extreme religion always silly? Isn't that why they want to cut heads off and toss people off buildings? They're kinda weird.

You can believe in a thrice parted divinity that's dead and yet resurrected and living nonetheless and partly makes ppl talk funny. Or a god that's part of a plethora of animal spirits. Or anything you like, maybe your toaster is a god? Or a spoon.

Stranger things have happened in history.

Gameplay is pretty straightforward. What you're going for here is the slowly developing background, the story, the worldbuilding. It comes in inches. And there's a lot of mechanical fighting inbetween. But the story is worth it, in the end.

Relaxation game. Just go through all the fights, enjoy the great art, enjoy the story.

Badly implemented controller support

it's a really fun game, if you like tactical games with a lot of customisation, and grind to get the best stuff.

After nearly 20 hours I lost my steam and I really don't feel like playing this anymore. This game is simply extremely exhausting. It's a system on top of a system on top of a system. I feel like I've spent 70% of my playtime just interacting with the UI, messing with skills and such, instead of actually playing. It doesn't help that the narrative is very bland and boring. To be perfectly honest this feels like a mobile gacha game, just without the p2w elements. I'm tired, boss.

Deluxe Tactical RPG :
+ Tons of unlocks
+ Top battlefield visibility (zoom, rotation, bird's eye view, etc.)
+ Deep level of data (stats) available of enemies, characters, and skills (during combat and out of combat)
+ Incredibly deep level of character customization
+ Hundreds of hours of content
+ Highly customizable difficulty
+ Lots of loot (equipment, masteries, weapons, ...)
+ Good story, even if you don't like JRPG stories (I didn't like Persona 5, Shin Megami, ...)
+ ...

Completely underrated tactical RPG in my opinion => 9/10

This has easily become of of my favorite Tactical Rpgs of all time, the game play, story, music, and characters are all incredibly well done. Missions feel fresh with the diversity of goals and challenges. Character arcs are super well written and i'm only a bit halfway through.

Another bonus is that the game has checkpoints so if you happen to be 40 minutes into a mission and have an enemy escape or you make a mistake, you're not severely punished. Combat feels great, you're not plagued by X-Com hit chance, but you're also not invincible.

The few downsides though, side quests feel kinda terrible as they are just miscellaneous equipment that will either get instantly replaced or is usually worse. There is no English Audio, didn't bother me but might turn off others. The police A.I can be really dumb if you don't nudge them along the way.

8.5/10 Absolutely would recommend this.

Fun

One of the GREATEST games I have ever played, I first tried it on a friends pc and it was so good I came home and paid FULL PRICE for it + the dlc.

There is SO MUCH content and the systems are deep ( I wish we could research a mastery set to see what exactly it needs ) and take time to get to grips with but with worth it.

I did not believe there would be a game better than xcom 2 + its dlc until xcom 3 ... but here it is !!!

Lots of reviewers have talked about the mechanics and systems but I want to say .. the story is REALLY fun, the script takes time to make characters interesting and its a bit like persona 4/persona 5 too, I am really excited for the next trouble shooter game !!

Thank you Dandylion for your work, and all the love and passion you put into this game, I really hope the next one is EVEN better than this.

PS - Pls make the crafting better in the next game :p

No matter what though, for the first time in ALMOST 10 YEARS xcom 3 is not the game I am most excited for ... now its TROUBLE SHOOTER 2 !!!!

great srpg, the controls on steam can difficult at times.

What a wonderful hidden gem this is. The shortest way to describe this game is anime xcom but it is much more than this. It is honestly one of the best tactical rpgs I've ever played.

The biggest strength of the game is the complexity of builds of characters. Both your units and enemy units have several equipable masteries (or skills) that give passive or active bonuses. Most masteries are part of mastery sets which further modify how these masteries work or giving more stats. These build up on each other so you might have a character who buffs all allies around them, one that applies 4 different debuffs on every attack or one that cuts down dozens of enemies in one turn. Every character has 2 major classes to create builds around with very little overlap. Even if two characters share a class their active skills are very different leading to slightly different playstyles even among the same class. While there are certainly classes that are stronger it is well balanced and every strong build will have some weakness you will need to play around. This becomes more relevant the later in the game you get because enemies will start to have pretty strong builds themselves.

While the masteries are the main thing that will influence your game play there are several mechanics on top. A crafting system, a bonding system, food buffs, a motivation stat, special interactions with terrain and more. This is a bit overwhelming at the start of the game. The game does explain every system though. However the explainations are in broken english sometimes making it hard to understand at first. It takes a bit getting used to but I think almost all of these systems improve the game in some way.

The story honestly supprised me. It is a unique and interesting story because of how relatively slow moving it is. This might sound like a bad thing at first but it doesnt mean there is nothing happening in the story. Instead it takes the time to show smaller developments in the character, their relationships and also the world around them. Even small side missions have at least one dialogue at the start, usually of enemies talking about you and current events in the story. This fits well with the overally story as this game is not the usual zero to hero type of story. It is more zero to a growing, learning neighbourhood hero that also establishes the world, importants characters, conflicts and a several possible big bads that the character will probably defeat in later games.

If you enjoy xcom and creating character builds give this game a shot. It is definetly worth it.

Absolute hidden gem. Although a very different game, nothing since Elden Ring has been this exciting to me in a long time. I can see why people might have complaints about pacing etc. I have none. I love the slow pace, I like the methodical movement. Nothing will top lining up my VHPD suppressors on overwatch and diving in with Albus, watching the enemies try to scatter and fall. Gear crafting, upgrades, drones, pets, multiple classes. Beautiful. If the idea of a JRPG X-COM appeals to you at all, you should play this game.

This game is XCOM in anime format but being a few magnitudes more complicated and in depth. Amazing game even though there is definitely a steep learning curve. It blows my mind that an indie company made a game with this much content. Definitely a steal at its price <3. I can safely say I love this game more than XCOM 2 which is saying a lot.

This game is a good game, there is SO much content even for one character who has a whole create a robot subdivision and a char who has a whole pet beast taming talent tree. It was very fun until the end where the end game talents on the other enemies like "Return fire" where they can attack every time you attack from enemy snipers is Obnoxious and annoying, The second to last map the tank character had so many defensive talents that I couldn't do more than 5% damage an attack and I couldn't kill him. I can see end game balance being incredibly unbalanced and unfun.

I am usually not a fan of anime, Japanese culture and storytelling, but this game made me put that aside.
This is a game that is born of actual love and care for the genre (XCOM type) and playing it for the first 10 minutes shows you just how much of it has been poured into creating it.
Customization is fun, a bit overwhelming at times, but the whole masteries system is pretty cool and intuitive once you decide to optimize a build for a character. The game might feel a bit easy at times but very challenging at others (as a game should) and I really have to commend something that is probably unnoticed by most players - the options to fast-forward, skip and auto-step cutscenes and cinematics. As I mentioned above, I'm not a fan of the usual Japanese game storytelling and writing and the inclusion of these options have let me enjoy the game without being expected to wait for some annoying unskippable monologue about food or love interest (you should know what I mean if you play a lot of games) and the game has a lot of enjoyment to give.
I will definitely wait for the developer's next game and get DLC's as they come.
Thank you Dandylion for your work, much love and appreciation!

Modern XCOM meet Valkyria Chronicles - in short, one of the best and most fresh XCOM like game I ever played.

Similar to W40k:Mechanicus, I almost refunded the game, but decided to continue...and the game is amazing!
One thing that doesn't give it the justice, is that it reveal it's true potential in rather long time.
You need 3-4 hours to start unlocking fun things and 30 hours to get to main meat of the game.
To be honest, it's intentional, coz game is DEEEEEP and mechanic rich - you need time and attention to fully grasp what crazy amount of options you have.

Pros:
- All characters seem to be masterfuly handcrafter, with long and deep story, that is interconnected (including side characters and villains)
- Every playable character has unique set of skills and mechanics.
- All levels are very well though and often very robust (especially city ones), unlike modern XCOM, they are very fun to play and don't feel repetetive. Everything, from events and enemy placement make that even generic missions feel interesting.
- in addition to playable characters, you frequently are given police support force (often 5-10 additional units) and they are very fun to play (very useful as proper support force)!
- some missions, like against White Tiger Gang use human avalance tactics and battle are massive (you + 10 police units vs 60+ enemies all rushing at you from almost all directions).
- Music, while unremarkable at first, grow on me and is very fitting and setting the mood.

Cons:
- Mostly GUI stuff, like crafting menu is pain to use, masteries menu taking some time to understant how it work.
- Trading street, while interesting at first, is taking too much time and another loading sscreen to bother.
- Drones lack spare parts/crafting material in general.
- The biggest missions with huge amount of enemies, while extremely fun, take too much time (even at fastest animation speed).
- Crafting is a chore.

Despite some flaws, I rate this game 10/10 and I'm looking forward for sequel!

Almost 50 hours in, here are a few of my thoughts:
It's basically Persona x Xcom.
It's a slow burn to get to the good stuff, so lock in for a good 5 - 10 hours before the game actually attempts to challenge you in any way.
I have tuned in to the story a few times but I've mostly ignored it; it feels like your standard story, but I am not the right one to ask.
If you dug Xcom's gameplay you'll enjoy this very much however, much bigger levels, more enemies and enemy types.
I muted the music after a few hours and just roll with my own as well as having turned off the voice acting as well. The quality of both the acting and the microphone itself varies from Good to Horrible, line by line at times.
Money becomes a non factor (atleast nearly 50 hours in) by around your 5th mission if even that.
There are a few nice quality of life additions to the game but also a few holdovers from XCOM but I think it may just be the engine itself.
The AI can be cunning or absolutely idiotic in it's positioning and target choices.
Has been buggy for me only a small handful of times and nothing game breaking, however there is no retry mission option unless you ALL die or you fail the victory condition which can be kinda annoying at times when you get a bad start and just wanna redo without the penalty.
Plenty of maps and "different" modes, but it all more or less boils down to kill everything before it does X or whatever.
My biggest overall complaint however is the lack of real customization for your party members. Huge miss there.
In any event though, if you dig XCOM, i'd say get it, if you dig Persona, give it a try.

I really understand how this game could go unnoticed by the general populace, but wow (and I mean WOW) it is a fantastic game. The visuals are bright and fun look at for hours at a time. The story feels deep, engaging, and mysterious. Lastly, the Korean tones are highly appreciated since their gaming market doesn't have much representation. Thanks to Reddit for the recommendation!

Great game for the price. The game is more detailed than the price point would leave you to believe.

if you love x-com you will love this game and if you don't get this game well there's no hope for you

Dodge, Block, Dodge, Miss, Dodge, Dodge, Block, etc. It's like a documentary that's 10 hours long with 15 minutes of information.

Holy crap, I never remembered to review this. The problem is, how the heck do I try to describe two playthroughs of the one of the more complex, nuanced and unique tactical RPGs I've played and also one of the rare stories I engage with, yet that is rather multi-faceted and has a TON of threads going on at once.

At the same time I would want to acknowledge some of the potential issues - it starts slow, you do have to approach it analytically with a lot of not-immediately-obvious mechanical implications, there's an explosion of secondary systems involving crafting and pets at some point that might trap a more completion-minded player in doing a lot of secondary content, you need to really think about what to do with your difficulty settings (I turned basically everything up to max, but instead of using level scaling I used the option to cap your level to the chapter you're in so that I always get the "intended experience"). You can grind, you can take stuff as it comes, you can build insane killing-spree monsters. There's also a fair amount of details involving the huge amount and variety of content that made me jump between a few guides detailing where to find or how to combine certain things, which I would say is a negative, but it's fair to mention I did play everything on as high a difficulty as possible even going so far as to make it impossible to overlevel content by accident.

Yet in the end the core gameplay is just an irreplacable gem. From the early game, where you use a number of generic allied police mooks to help pin enemies down and buy time for your heroes, to the late game where you'll literally be running around with a dozen heavily-customized murder monsters at once each of whom might have over a dozen unique, intertwined tricks going on that enable them to kill, survive and control in a plethora of satisfying ways. Big marathon maps where you might literally be in a slow, grindy like 15 vs 100 roaming street battle that's just super satisfying the first time you overcome it. I liked the game a lot when I first played it some years back, but coming back more recently with both DLC and extra coat of polish and qol on a lot of mechanics, it actually might be sneaking its way into my top-5-ever games, and I pretty much live and breath video games. This is one of the very few games I ever bought all of the random skins/soundtrack on purely to throw money at the devs. As a tactical game dev I find heart in knowing a game this complex and nuanced can be so well-received, and as a player I just love knowing these people succeeded and I'll get to play more of it someday in a coming sequel.

A hidden gem. Deep tactical combat, lovable characters, and a ton of build freedom. Feels like XCOM meets anime JRPG — and it just keeps getting better the more you play. Only downside: the UI can be pretty confusing.

*This review will contain some spoilers*

After having spent alot of hours into Troubleshooter : Abandoned Children, all i have to say is i wholeheartedly support the Devs and this game for creating this wonderful game - from the combat, to storytelling, to the mastery system (the way characters are geared)!

I absolutely LOVED the troublemaker list and the violent battles! Especially when there are multiple 'boss units' in the same mission , i really hope that this will be in the sequel as well as it really give the challenge to the game where you cant just rush in without proper planning on who you want to fight - urrgh especially on level 40+ violent case Magneta Backstreet, where normal grunts from the enemy Skulls faction have a unique ability 'fire support' that can easily wipe your team if you are not careful xD, and they also have really strong leaders that fulfill the role of an enemy sniper, close-to-medium range (pistol guy), brawler (the tank), and the slasher

Your also allowed to have different builds for the characters and tinkering with the different masteries can make each of your character play a different role (3 classes for each charac) - with each character have their own deep story behind how they got to where they are today (upbringing as well as special characters that have supported them when they were young, etc.)

Truly a solid well-rounded turn-based game and do grab it now as it is on sale, definitely recommend!

(Cant wait for the Sequel as well which would be Troublemaker : Banished Children)

Fantastic game with really good game play. It's definitely a slow burn type of game, but the X-Com mechanics with JRPG character building and a fairly good story make for a solid recommendation.

Worst grind and difficulty spikes I've encountered in a TRPG ever.

Overall good X-COM clone, but so much chatting.

A great strategic RPG, well worth its price tag

bought this game while ago but my laptop wasnt able to run it so i had it on backburner for a long time and eventually forgot about it.
lately i have hard time finding games that captivate me for longer period of time and tend to play online games that last 15-30 min max per round and decide after each round if i am in a mood for another so much so that i thought i cant enjoy offline games.
Luckily i was wrong and again luckily i gave this game a chance as it is becoming my favorite game and i am shocked with how time flies when playing this game.

Game is challenging but it has options to make the gameplay easier for those who prefer story. it gives player lot of initiative and responsibilities in and out of combat. there is lot of management, lots of grinding and numbercrunching and all that but nothing seems too tedious or crucial so if anything is not to your liking you can just ignore that aspect of the game.
Characters are interesting which at this point i cant tell if it is the matter of game being almost decade old or not because 99% of new games especially singleplayer and/or offline game characters all feel like there is little to no effort in making them. every new character feel like a statement rather than personality but not in this game.
It feels like breath of fresh air and i am glad i came back to try it again on new laptop as this game is most fun i had in a long time.

This is a "yes...but" recommendation.

The actual turn-based combat system is extremely fun, on that count it's one of the best X-COM likes I've played in a long time. The music and sound effects are excellent.

But it's wrapped in a SRPG layer that's on the grindy side with lots of subsystems, and the pacing and scale are "off." By that I mean you don't get interesting characters until 10+ hours into the game, and some of the missions -- these aren't even boss fights -- drag on and on because of the number of units + map design. TROUBLESHOOTER is one of those single-player games that has several "momentum killers" you just have to push through.

The devs respond to most reviews here, and it sounds like they've taken this feedback to heart. I look forward to the sequel because the combat system is really that good. Hopefully the sequel has full Steam Deck support as this style of game is perfect for it.

fun

very fun trpg with interesting mechanics. story is an anime fan's dream if you like modern shonen.

Just wow, what an unexpected and overwhelming experience. Troubleshooter is a game that just comes out of nowhere and provides a hardcore, x-com-esque experience like no other.
So what is there to love about this game: The 2 best things about this game are they mind-blowing amount of approaches/builds/strategies and the variety in level design. I don't think I have ever seen a game within this subgenre that has this many completely unique setups for levels, you just get into so many different scenarios it is just incredible and that combined with the aforementioned variety in the strategic approach and the amount of different characters you get to control and synergies to think about just creates this one of a kind, insane and "you have to see it to believe it" type of experience.
The campaign alongside the DLCs will take you well over a 100 hours even without doing the side stuff and I am saying side stuff here but in reality the "side stuff" is just as detailed as the main content. I mean, you can collect huge amounts of pets from scenarios or craft drones and even though that sounds like a small little thing you have on the side in Troubleshooters it is almost just as detailed and complex as building your main roster. And almost everything is like that in this game and it is just unheard of, especially from such a small developer. Troubleshooter is also a pretty challenging game if you put it on higher difficulties, I played through the whole game and most of the side quests on HARD but then in the DLCs I did lower the difficulty which I am going to discuss later. Some of the levels even in the main campaign get pretty crazy and you will have to constantly come up with solutions as the odds will always be against you in a huge way. In some scenarios you will go up against like 130 enemies which is something I have never seen in a x-com-like game before, so yeah, strap in. One more thing that deserves to be mentioned is the mastery system (their version of a perk system) which is super complex and unique and it's the main reason behind the strategic vastness. And there's like hundreds upon hundreds of masteries/recipes and mastery sets/combos to discover with some of them completely changing up the whole direction you'd be taking with a given character.
So what is there NOT to like in this game? 1) Well visually it is not that impressive, the animations are also pretty underwhelming and the same goes for enemy design. 2) The story can get completely incoherent with how many new characters get introduced at the same time with the narrative not going back to them for hours and then suddenly dropping you into a flashback of a side character you've seen once and then jumping around in 3 different timelines and etc. it can get obnoxious. I don't think anyone fully comprehends the story and it's nuances, I tried to look for it online and yeah no one gets it fully as it is not possible due to the disjointed and poorly executed delivery. And it's a shame because there are some interesting bits and character arcs here and there. 3) You have to spend insane amounts of time in menus, optimizing your builds, especially on higher difficulties and if you are not okay with that just skip this game. 4) The overwhelming nature of the game which is represented in how much stuff it introduces sometimes which could just exhaust you as skipping stuff in this game is generally not advised if you are playing on higher difficulties. No matter how optional the drone crafting or pet-leveling look to you, you will ABSOLUTELY need them to be as optimized as your main characters on harder missions. And I think all of that can be a bit too much. 5) The difficulty of the DLCs. This is by far the worst thing about this game. What I think happened here is that the developers mostly correctly assumed that the people who would stay for the DLCs of this already niche title would be the ones with the most broken and optimized builds that deal with everything so they balanced this content around that fact which makes it borderline unplayable for people like me. By people like me I mean people who came in late and played through the whole thing as a singular experience. So is it "too hard"? Well, the problem is not that it's too hard, the problem is what can you do to overcome the challenge and in Troubleshooter there is only 2 things you can do when you already know how to play the game well enough. You either have to farm a LOT or craft builds (which sometimes takes a lot of time due to the masteries being treated as items in this game rather than unlocks for some weird reason) for your 10+ characters, pets etc. that would specifically deal with that scenario that's giving you trouble, however if you don't have all the required material then you go back to farming which by the way can also be chance-based meaning you go and farm a scenario for an hour (because killing 100 enemies in a turn-based game on higher difficulties is inherently a slow process) and you might still not get what you need. So if you are not okay with that much farming than you can go ahead and decrease difficulty right? right? WRONG! The DLCs, especially the fucking crimson crow is so awfully balanced that I BARELY got through the final couple of missions on EASY because I just didn't have the energy to farm after having played the game for over a hundred god damn hours. Now you might think I suck at this game and sure I may not be amazing at it and my builds might not be optimized for every encounter and I may not have all the best items but remember I got through the whole game with almost all side content on HARD as well as half of the first DLC so my builds should be enough to finish the game on EASY or SAFE otherwise that difficulty setting is useless. Either remove the difficulty modes in which case I would only complain about excessive grinding or just make them WORK. I had to actually cheese the final mission of crimson crow to win on SAFE because it was physically impossible with my builds and I had to choose between grinding for god knows how many hours vs cheesing the game (I am talking about the turn skip method against the fucking gundams, if you know you know). Holy shit man what the hell. And if you want more proof of this dlc being to much for people just look at its completion rate on steam. Okay rant over.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the main game, was mixed on the first DLC and hated the second one. I think this game (without the dlc) is a must-play for everyone who enjoys this subgenre and I am very excited to see what the developer will come up with the sequel that I've heard is in the works.
P.S Troubleshooter also has a PvP mode, fucks sake man what a game :D

Anime X-COM

The only bad thing about this game is mission type doesnt matter at the end it just fall to kill everyone.