When did Shock Tactics come out?

Shock Tactics was released on 11 April 2017 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Shock Tactics (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shock Tactics

Shock Tactics is inspired by the space western style of Firefly and games like Jagged Alliance and X-COM. The game is set on an ancient alien homeworld, procedurally generated each time you start a new game…

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What Shock Tactics is

Shock Tactics is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Point Blank Games and released in 2017. It was published by EuroVideo Medien. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Your team are the trailblazers for the first wave of Free Space Pioneers exploring a newly discovered alien planet. While searching the hostile world for alien technology you lead your team into tactical combat against pirates, alien creatures and the troops of the Imperial Consortium. Set up outposts and dig sites to exploit the secrets that this new world holds, in order stand against the incoming invasion. Everything is out there for the taking, but nothing will come free.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Shock Tactics holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Shock Tactics launched on 11 April 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.

Official trailer