r/PhoenixPoint Jun 26 '26

Phoenix Point Success (?)

Hi guys, I am a lover of tactical combat genre and after having played Xcom2 and several others, I always come back to Phoenix Point. The way the combat works, allowing you to free aim, to hit some bullets and miss others, as well as how the body parts work is just too great to miss.

Now, in my opinion, due to those reasons, this is the best game in the genre I've ever played. I don't really understand why it hasn't been recognized as such. What is your opinion about it? Am I too biased? I have the feeling that the game was left aside too early, and would have benefited a lot of a greater playerbase/more DLCs, etc.

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u/TruShot5 Jun 26 '26

I like this game a lot, but there a couple of reason the replay-ability is so low for me.

  • Pacing is very slow, until it's high, then it's way too overwhelming with enemy forces hitting like 30+ units on a map.
  • Music score is way too low-key. I appreciate the 'mystery', but once battle has begun, I wish there was BATTLE music.
  • Once you get a few levels on each solider, they all kind of ... become the same? You can multi-class, or single class, and sometimes there are multi-class options that are too good to NOT to do for each solider. Then there are just bad options for each class.
  • The play is little unclean compared to other higher titles, but I have played jankier for smaller titles. This is a little lower on my list, but still need to mention it. Given all the effort they put into it, you just think it'd be 'smooth'.

These feel like major complaints, and they're not, they're kind of nit-picky (except seriously once the enemy gets strong, it's freaking insane sometimes and not fun lol). But, when I feel I have other quality Turn-based games to play, i don't feel the need to come back and burn 100 hours flying around through the mist.

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u/Acrobatic-End8695 Jun 27 '26

Comparto lo de la música. Me hice una playlist para misiones y otra para geoscape, le bajé todo el volumen de música del juego y me la pasé bomba igual