Free game that I tried out for a few hrs. First 2 tries did not go well but helped me learn the basics. Next try I lowered the difficulty to the minimum 10% and managed to beat a run. I spent my starting money on fuel and juice. Every move on the space map cost 1 fuel and juice was the time limit for missions so it was very important to keep stocks up. Each shop jacked up the price after each purchase though so I only bought 4 or 5. I gave guy 1 the pick axe and guy 2 the pistols and had them scrape through the missions like that. They played kinda like RTS and I enjoyed controlling the 2 guys separately; 1 covering while the other looted or dismantled. Later I got more guns from armories and bosses and set up guy 1 as a close range tank with heavy armor and the other as ranged dps. 2nd guy got killed by enemy snipers though because they did shocking amounts of damage. My tank guy soloed a lot and was using the laser gun, until rescuing 3 new people. I leveled them up with 1 sniper, 1 rifle, and the last another tank with a shotgun. I found 4 characters much more difficult to control and that there were a lot of errors and performance hits. Didn't seem like juice wore out faster by taking more people. They made it to the final boss where 2 of my guys died almost instantly. The 2 survivors spread out on either side of the boss and killed him fairly easy. I know the original laser gun guy survived but forget who the other was.

I did another run to check out the aliens and got 2 hp regen items that were sweet. But the team wiped on the Hive boss due to massive numbers of enemies. I tried the normal 50% difficultly a few times before I managed to get past even 1 mission. The % seemed to govern enemy hp and it took way longer to kill enemies at 50%. The combat was challenging enough at 10% due to the high damage enemies could do. The main effects of more durable enemies were way more spent juice to the point of sometimes skipping entire missions, better tactics required including having to buy an smg at the beginning, and much higher chance of death. I didn't get close to winning and did make use of the slow motion mode, which costs more juice.

Don't know if I will try again. The game is decent but I wish there was a mini map and the map stayed revealed in missions. It is early access so a lot is subject to change. Default difficulty seems tuned too high. I did try max difficulty once and that was instant face plant.