US Spy: Mission in Russia Reviews

I expected a bit more gameplay. Game's cheap, so I can understand the lack of it... but still, it's not something I'd recommend. It does have some fun to it if you like wacky conspiracy plots and/or politics.

Very positive overall rating is misleading. There is not much game here. You keep clicking what seems like the most appropriate cards each round. Don't run yourself out of budget. That sums it up from my perspective. The political humor is amusing enough for one playthrough.

For this price, of course I would recommend it. There needs to be more choices for subversive activities, and the English is very challenged in some spots. Overall, it's okay. The only thing that bothered me was that it seemed to be dripped with Western propaganda.

US Spy: Mission in Russia is a political strategy card game where you play as an American agent trying to stir chaos and discontent in Russia through corruption and acting in ways to paint the Russian government as unpopular. While it is an interesting concept, and the idea of a political strategy card game sounded fun, the game slips up in multiple major ways. First of all, the game doesn't feel very much like a game and instead a task. You can steal money from public projects, or you can do unpopular activities to lower the public's approval of the government. That is it, from turn to turn, choosing one card from your hand and playing it. There isn't much strategy to it, unfortunately. Another large issue for me is a lack of settings, the only ones in the game being controls for music and sound volume, and a language selector. That's it. No graphical fidelity options (not that you necessarily need them but not being able to change anything other than the volume and language is a little frustrating). There are some poor translations as well, which I can live with, but readability is hampered slightly. Unfortunately for US Spy: Mission in Russia, the game doesn't play much like a game. I'm honestly kind of surprised that this game managed a mostly positive rating here on Steam.

Calling this a "game" is a bit of a stretch, it's at best an interactive documentary/critique with with forced waiting at times to so you can click again.

At first glance this looks like a fairly fun game. Some of the options are quite amusing, and the idea is an interesting one. The trouble is that it's basically impossible not to win. Having won pretty easily on my first play through, when I was treating it fairly seriously, I decided to start another game and simply click at random to see what happened. I won again. And again. By this point I had all the achievements except one (the $150 million one) and played through once more, this time picking money-making options and the doing the cheapest things I could. Achievement gained. Except getting all the achievements after four plays of a game isn't really much of an achievement. This could be a quick and fun game but it needs to be harder. There's no point playing a game if you're always going to win.

This isn't a game. Basically it's impossible to lose (unless you run out of money, which is impossible unless you make deliberately make the wrong choices). It's deterministic. There's no strategy. It's anti-russian propaganda which is fine with me except that it's claiming to be a game. There's zero 'strategy'. I think all of the good reviews for this game must be fake. This will be the first steam game I ever request a refund for.

Completed in 20 minutes. There is not much to this. Extremely repetitive cards/options, you'll see the same cards at least 10 times in a play through it's ridiculous how lazy the devs were with this. Not even sure it's worth the £0.99.

This is essentially anti-Russia propaganda dressed up as a game. I don't mind the propaganda and I couldn't care less one way or another about Russia, but there's no actual game here. It's just spamming left click through repetitive and pointless dialog after making choices that don't matter. You can't lose the game, you can only win more quickly or more slowly. It's like playing Poker where you win every hand and the only question is how much of everyone else's money you take each hand. RNG dominates that element, just like RNG dominates which cards you'll be dealt in Poker. The game looks pretty, but it isn't really a game in my view.

Not really a game - mostly flash cards of various Russian scandals. You select from various Russian scandals and slowly as you play them, the people of Russia get angrier and angrier. It's interesting to learn about the scandals but there isn't much gameplay. The scandals are linked to from the game but the sources seem to mostly be in Russian so you don't learn so much. Mostly the game is clicking through text boxes.