Xenonauts 2

After about 10 years of development it's almost a remake of it's predecessor, though without vehicles. The combat is strangely balanced and seems to have been built with the same metas of the first game, which causes one whole enemy group to almost be a complete joke due to them being short ranged, It's really slow on only the loading screens for no discernable reason, and the content hasn't meaningfully improved since I first played the early access a few years ago now. Play either it's predecessor modded or a similarly older and better game.

Only "enjoyable", if you already have played through this game, read all the wiki and reddit-sites, to get spoilers on comming challenges and how not to get overwhelmed by them. Or if you adjust the sliders at the beginning so the game is more fair. Also, I bet the pitch-meeting for this game went something like this: Person1: "I'm so sad, I had the shield-idea in the previous game, but people rarely use them!" Person2: "No worries, we'll make the second game all around this mechanic, otherwise much more soldiers will die" - You'll be using shields and smoke bombs 24/7 - "Story" progresses too fast, you would barely have time and ressources (if any) to build a second base (especially since you need another scarce ressource for that) - Basic aircraftas also need to be build by Workshops -> new base needs to wait for workshop, workers to build aircrafts, or get some transfered from ot…