debating whether to get this game or not. The thread here is certainly long enough to show me that folks like it, but I dont really like "hard for the sake of being hard" games much. For example, I really liked FTL when I first started but after making almost no progress on many attempts, I just burned out. I like to feel some sense of progression and the meta-game ship upgrade thing in FTL wasnt enough for me.
So, will i like this game?
I think you'll like this game most of the time, because there is definitely a strong sense of progression as your heroes become more powerful and you cross off goals.
However, I think you will also occasionally be incredibly angry at it, because occasionally it just throws a completely unwinnable situation at you and expects you to deal with it.
Your call if that's worth it.
The most recent update looks really good, though - I'm a huge fan of the part where trying to target an Afflicted character who refuses allows you to do something else with the character instead. That was one of the biggest tantrum spirally mechanics in the game, and one of the ones that felt the least fair about it, because it meant that the correct choice could often fuck you over because the RNG was having a bad day (and I really hate mechanics that punish you for learning how to play the game).
EDIT: To clarify that last part, characters who crack from stress become Afflicted with a psychological problem. If you target such a character with some ability, for instance healing, they may refuse to allow it. It used to be that this would not only prevent you from executing your plan, the character who did the healing or whatever would also lose their turn. Now your plan is just ruined, but you can try and salvage it - which is something I like the game to be encouraging at every opportunity.
Any mechanic that gives you more chances to desperately try to make the best of a bad situation is a good one, but the Moar Challenge crowd tends to encourage mechanics that don't actually give you that because if something goes wrong or you make a mistake, you're fucked no matter what you do. And that's not desperate, that's depressing.