I'm looking for games in where you control a group of mercenaries or something of the sort and you control them in a tactical sense, like JA or Commandos, maybe something turnbased like X-Com.

If there are mechanics to level up the soldiers even better. Not looking for any medieval stuff, tried them all (You should play battle brothers)

>>2048804 (OP)
Freedom Fighters
Kane and Lynch, the first one
>inb4 not /vst/
Like I give a shit. Still fulfills your question

>>2048804 (OP)
>turnbased like X-Com
>level up the soldiers
Troubleshooter

I enjoyed 7.62 except for the fact that it crashed all the time.

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

I found this game at some dollar store back in the mid 2000s. Turned out to be one of my favorite tactical games of all time.

It's got some jank, and the progression feels slow, but it's super enjoyable. Definitely worth a playthrough. Nothing beats that early game camping around boulders and landing slow-motion headshots on enemies as they charge around at you (there's a time-dilation mechanic when shots are fired that you can toggle on/off). And as you progress, the CQB battles in the larger buildings feel extremely tacticool and rewarding. Plus, it's pretty open-ended with you being able to attack people in towns and rob stores, and just generally free-roam your way around the map.

There's also a sequel for it called 7.62 High Caliber(Hard Life) that I picked up on Steam recently, but I haven't tried it out yet.

>>2048858
that's the game people get hurt and knocked unconscious. i remember finishing off downed opponents with headshots in that game. so satisfying

>>2048858
love this game, good ruskijank

>>2048844
looks weird
very anime
will look more into it

>>2048806
Man shut the fuck up and google to see the genre he's asking about since you don't seem to have a clue

>>2048804 (OP)
Tried the UFO series, the aftermath aftershock ones by ALTAR or silent storm?

If you want we-go style games, check out Frozen Synapse (2) or Door Kickers (2). Also TASTEE lethal tactics.

>>2048913
I have played Silent Storm but not the UFO ones, they look fun

>>2048938
holy shit the TASTEE one looks EXACTLY like the type of game i'll waste 20 hours in a weekend.
it seems delisted from steam, i'll sniff around a bit more but thank you for the suggestion

>>2048804 (OP)
gotcha covered bruh

>>2048957
Seriously dumped tens of hours into Phantom Doctrine years ago, hoping it would service my mind control fetish.

It did not. 0/10

>>2049066
What filtered you?

>>2049067
Nothing to really be filtered by. Just use your agent, stay out of sight, and you can solo the vast majority of missions. Got really repetitive at some point, though I got some enjoyment out of it for a while.

Burden of commad , turnbased. Hard to savescum. Gotta live with the mistakes. I'm currently on my second run with a little more careful advancing

>>2048804 (OP)
Cyber Knights Flashpoint is coming out next week. It's a cyberpunk Xcom-like game. I don't love the graphical style but aside from that it's pretty cool.

>>2048854
>>2048858
>>2048890
How's 7.62 compared to Marauder? It's been on my "to play" list forever because Marauder, despite its warts, was pure tactical slavjank kino

>>2048913
Would you recommend aftershock over aftermath or vice versa?

>>2049314
Alot less storydriven, much more sandbox.
It has cool mods. Give everybody guns adds so many weapons and attachments that it looks like a tarkov ripoff.

The game is still jank af, but its fun

>>2049285
That looks awful but people are praising it alot and it seems that is being constantly updated.
Guess I shouldm't judge it just by the looks of it. But it really looks like an unity asset slop

>>2049322
Not him, but I would recommend both. They are rather different from each other other both in story and gameplay. aftermath is simpler while aftershock is more complexed.

>>2049343
Any recommended mods? I'll probably hold off on anything too overhaul for after playing vanilla

>>2049322
There's three actually: Aftermath, Aftershock and Afterlight.

As the other Anon said Aftermath is a bit simpler that's not necessarily a bad thing because Aftershock can get a bit tedious sometimes. From what I've read online most people prefer this one.
I think I'm in the minority, but I actually like Aftershock the most, simply because it has more options to play with including psionics and cyborgs. It starts off from one of the worst endings from Aftermath (allowing the aliens to relocate your dudes to a space station while the rest of the Earth gets fucked) which helps explain why it wasn't as well received.
Afterlight is a bit of an odd one, not just because of the cartoony style but also because you play with a fixed cast. You can recruit a few characters along the way and there are some characters that only show up as replacements if you let anyone die, but otherwise the crew you start with is what you have for most of the game. IIRC this one takes place simultaneously with Aftershock, dealing with a research station trying to terraform Mars in order to create a new home after the Earth got shit on in the canon Aftermath ending.

>>2049314
>Marauder

>>2048913
>Is offered games that fulfill OP's question
>Refuses to touch them, due to being a fucking retard
Suit yourself

>>2049422
Not those anons, but the games you suggested are not "like JA or Commandos", and even without that qualification, the implication of this being posted on the strategy games board is that they're not looking for fucking Kane and Lynch.

>>2048804 (OP)
aliens dark descent is realtime with pause but you're controlling a group of customizable marines

>>2049322
Aftermath has best vibe, aftershock the best campaign and afterlight allround best gameplay and polish

>>2049394
The last playthrough I made on steam (played the game before but never the steam version) was with these mods. GEG seems like obligatory from everywhere I'd read.

>>2049459
Already played it. Amazing game, hard as fuck too. Good recomendation

https://store.steampowered.com/app/710230/Urban_Strife

Found this game, looks exactly like what I'm looking for. Posting it here if someone is also interested in this type of games

>>2049829
The half baked ai sloppa forever early access type of game with over 9000 promised features and fixes coming soon? Thanks I'm good.

>>2049322
Aftermath was the best one. The other two are overflowing with gimmicks.

>>2049427
>the implication of this being posted on the strategy games board is that they're not looking for fucking Kane and Lynch.
They are missing out, then

>>2049399
Kek. Marauder is straight up cock and ball torture, but it's great

Another one that looks interesting

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727760/Mars_Tactics/

>>2049939
>negro in the marketing materials

>>2049395
>I think I'm in the minority,
probably, but you're also correct

>>2049399
filtered

>>2049285
>>2049343
it's definitely unityjank, but actually does a decent job making both stealth and combat reasonably viable strategies in the same game. A feat in of itself. It has some statbloating though, but if you were familiar with star traders it will make sense coming from the same developers

>>2049939
MT is great and has a combat demo out still, though it's pretty outdated. It's basically Red Faction/X-Com. Play either the rebels or the corpos in a civil war on Mars.

Both sides are supposed to have asymmetrical strategic gameplay, with rebels having the ability to homegrown unique weapons and gear and the corpos having access to robotics and higher quality troops/gear but being beholden to shareholders. Combat is supposed to be very lethal with a focus on suppresive fire and destructible environments.

>>2049980
>negro in your brain constantly

>>2049829
It's a waste of time, I wouldn't recommend it
The writing is dull and everyone acts like retards

>>2049829
>AI Generated Content Disclosure
>The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
>We are a small indie team and as our game includes close to 200 characters you can interact with, we have used Midjourney to produce their portraits for the Early Access release of the game. Depending on feedback we may revisit this at a later stage.
Sloppa

Absolute SOVLfull game, never heard of it but I love the general vibe

https://lasersquad.org.uk/

Fun like an xcom predecessor, but not what I'm looking for

Satellite Reign. Don't play it as a stealth game, that just gets you killed. What you're supposed to do is take your team and go loud each time. It's realtime, but there is a pause ability.

>>2049900
Yeah, on non strategy games you retard.

>>2048804 (OP)
>You should play battle brothers
Fuck no

>>2051772
I have it on steam for some reason. Don't remember buying it to be honest.

I'll try it tonight. Thanks for the recomendation

>>2052000
I think it's been in a bundle a few times so maybe you picked it up that way. It's not a terrible game but I didn't particularly enjoy it either, it just never clicked with me.

Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery

It was my 2024 GOTY. It's an SRPG, futuristic setting. You run around with a group of soldiers fighting neo soviets in snowy mountains.

>>2051772
in the beginning stealth is pretty impossible, but when all of your agents get maxed out, everything becomes trivial when stealthed and you can pretty much cheese everything by sending one stealthed guy to hack, one stealthed guy to steal, etc. while all your other dudes wait outside. still kind of fun to be honest.

>>2052187
All I remember from that game was that my saves got deleted and I seethed and dropped it

>>2051772
Game is ass, do not recommend.

>>2049285
The group who made Cyber Knights and Star Trader: Frontiers seem to have a consistently ugly art style on every game they do but the games themselves are good enough that I keep playing anyway.

>>2048804 (OP)
Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich

Xenowerk Tactics is a nice little game to have on your phone. I like how it's more similar to JA1 than 2.

>>2049399
>>2049399
I think i played Marauder because it was in some pc magazine on a cd..
It took me literally hours to exit my building because i was keep getting killed by someone.

I know Silent Storm was mentioned before I just wanted an excuse to post an SS screenshot.
I love this game like you wouldn't believe, still playing it 20 years later.

>>2059771
From what I played, I absolutely loved before running into a bug. I think I'm going to get this running on my Deck. All I need it the unofficial patch, right?

>>2059771
>still playing
>gamespot
Fucking shameful

>>2059771
>>2059798
Where the fuck can I get Hammer and Sickle and is it even worth playing?

>>2059798
I used to have a load of screenshots and webms of Silent Storm but I lost it together with most of my files when my old HDD kicked the bucket ;__;

>>2059827
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/f9rbqxaqouqb8/Hammer.and.Sickle-RELOADED
https://www.old-games.com/download/9586/hammer-sickle
This took me 2s to google up you lazy fuck.
>pros
It's by far the best developed game in the series both mechanically and narratively with tons of branching paths and side missions. There's 0 sci-fi. There are fan patches that fix many issues.
>cons
It's buggy as all fuck. Those fan patches are usually in either kraut or cyrilics on defunct links.

>>2059835
Thanks. I'll take a look for fan patches. If it's my first time playing SS, so you recommended just the unofficial patch? Or should I also mod out the panzerobots that everyone seems to loathe

>>2059841
Don't know what to tell you. I only got around to getting patches for H&S because the game can be *extremely* unstable without them. S2 and S3, I still have CDs somewhere and have finished both games with no major issues a whole bunch of times over the years.

>panzerkleins
I don't really mind them that much as they provide some level of challenge and their ammo packs are a godsend if you're spamming MGs. Worst thing is the really slow movement for any model that's not scout.

>>2059841
The games are a bit silly with the sci-fi and Panzerkleins, I find it oddly charming and I would recommend trying the game with them.
But honestly they break a lot of the end-game making it half mandatory to have some PKs to deal with the enemy's, which restricts your freedom a lot. And the freedom to choose how you approach any given situation is one of the highlights of this game.
But even if you mod them out I recommend trying them out at some point just because they can make a lot of mayhem, and watching entire blocks get leveled with realistic physics never gets old.

>>2059851
>half mandatory
They're really weak to snipers, melee, explosives and grenadier MGs and rockets in general. You get some laser cannons of your own and they die in a headshot or two.