Sigma Theory: Global Cold War

The game does not prepare you for the mechanics or at least gives you a win at the beginning to figure out what to do right. This isn't fun; I literally can't find the fun. This game sucks.

I don't know how much I should recommend this, but I'm fairly addicted to it anyway, so I'm giving it a thumbs up. The plot is it is ten years in the future from whenever you start the game (neat little trick, devs) and you are one of ten global powers in a race to develop some crazy, world-changing technologies. You will use the disparate talents of your four agents to hack other countries, convince their scientists to come work for your country either through seduction, bribery, or a really good pep talk (or just straight abduct them) and then play a mini-game where you exfiltrate them out of the country. Meanwhile, your enemies are also developing technologies to use against you, deploying agents to steal your scientists, and otherwise being a general pain in the butt.

Like most games of these types, once you figure out the optimal strategy, it's incredibly easy, but it's also good fun until you get there, and it's also fun to play less optimal strategies after that and see how well you do. Games are fairly quick as well, which is also a plus.

Granted, from a balance standpoint, it's pants. High intelligence is vastly superior to high strength, hacking is ridiculously overpowered, and performing exfiltrations quickly and quietly is too easy, meaning your more gun-happy, violent agents are less viable. With some tweaking, this could be a much better game. It's probably not going to happen, but I'd love to see a sequel.

The game is hard, trust me it took many hour to complete the game due to game dialogue chosee.
No, i did it carefully because if i chose the false scenario will make me lose the game.

More like a boardgame, but can be given a few chances.