Satellite Reign is a tactical role-playing game and a spiritual successor to the Syndicate series. The game features real-time, class-based strategy set in an open world cyberpunk city to facilitate emergent gameplay and giving the player the tools and freedom to play how they want to play.
You control the leader of a team of four agents who must fight for control over a complex cyberpunk city. Each squadmate has unique skills and abilities that you can customize for what type of combat you prefer.
Game World
The society is influenced by the rich, while the poor hide in the depths of the city. Big corporations have designated a corporate police to patrol and to keep things to their control. The game starts when a mysterious organization rises to free the masses from the corporate's control or to take control of themselves while bribing, stealing, and hacking their way to victory.
An open world game, you can explore this functional city that by day it is full of people and by night is occupied by criminal organizations. Every action you take will affect the reaction of the residents of the city. Powered by conduits, communication networks and security systems that you can hijack, modify or destroy, you'll need to learn how the city and its inhabitants to advance your agenda.
Classes
The distinct character classes give you complete control over how you approach a situation, with different class combinations of augmentations, gear and weapons giving you the ability to customize your team and your experience.
Assassin
If you need a target executed quickly and silent, it will be an easy job for the Assassin. The tools he's using are remote detonation charges, tripwires, rail-guns, silenced sniper rifles and a bit of hacking. His main attributes are stealth and speed.
Hacker
The hacker is best used to bring people or even a higher tiered enemy to your side, by hacking into their neural augmentations. He'll keep you updated with all the information you need.
Soldier
When your tactics fail or you can't negotiate you'll need a Soldier. He will blow up, brake and wreck his target bringing a lot of chaos. With his mini-guns, tactical nuke launchers, grenades and equipped with heavy armour, he will act as a tank in the battle.
Support
The Support agent is a key part of the team, holding it together. Armed with a mini-gun, packed with extra ammo, having defensive armour and other gadgets he is capable of a full frontal assault or he can provide cover for a situation gone wrong.
Player Choice & Combat
Rather than being spoon-fed mission after mission, you can tackle objectives in any way you want, from bribe scientists to advance your technologies, and kidnap doctors to augment your agents or stealing money from the banks to fund your war against the corporations, and exploit neural implants to bend the will of others.
Not every problem can be solved with brute force, so trying different and unique approaches to solving a problem works to aid you in a unique and different experience each time.
