What should I play after this game? I'm looking for something with very similar combat, little story, strictly non-medieval.
X-Com, Expeditions: Conquistador, XCom and Halfway.
In that order.
I am sure there are many more, and the last two are not that great, but thats a strict criteria.
I'll try to come up with some more.
How's Halfway? Some early GoG reviews were a bit negative about the game.
Its nothing much. I don't know why i got it, but still i dont regreat getting it.
The atmosphere, the music and pixel art are really cool, the story is light but serves its purpose. I am a sucker of phantom ships and thats the vibe i got the whole game.
The character progression is almost none. You get these stims that boost one of your stats, or all three of them if you get a special stim (only 2 avaiable).
Your stats consist in: Health, Agility and Aiming. Pretty slim, no? Even so you can a bunch of different combos with the also slim variety of items.
Even though its pretty simple, no character felt the same (most thanks to the fact that each both one unique passive and active skills).
In the weapon department you have shotguns, rifles and sniper rifles. There are other varients like plasma rifle and railguns. I found shotguns to be suited to more agile characters. Characters that could move in close and had a higher dodge chance.
In the armor department you have an exoskeleton; (one of a kind, boosts your aiming and agility by 3 but offers no shield nor dmg res. Gave it to my sniper) Tank or Scout Suit Mk I, II, III, IV and so on. These last two are fairly similar, the Tank models offer more damage resistance and a small boost to health and aiming while the scout offers a tougher energy shield and a small boost to agility and aiming. I personally found the scout armors to be better.
There might be more armors than this one. I know there is another unique, like the exoskeleton, but i believe this one offers a lot of damage res but little or none shield energy.
The combat its pretty simple aswell. You have 2 ap. Costs 1 to shoot, but you can increase the cost to 2 for better accuracy (liked this last part).
The game has no overwatch, but something similar called retaliate. You don't shoot if enemies react near you, but you will shoot back if they shoot at you no matter the distance.
Basically its a counterstrike. Its useful when an enemy is taking cover behind a pillar, because you can't hit them behind hard cover, and when he decides to pop out to shoot at you, before he gets a chance to hide his head in a hole you get to shoot his way too.
If you pretend you are back at 1993 playing snes, or whatever, you can enjoy it for what it is.
If you are looking for something more, you are bound to become disapointed.
Edit: There also are Assault Suits Mk. They fall in between the Tank and Scout.