Sierra Ops - Space Strategy Visual Novel Reviews

Sierra Ops is a mix of a combat, visual novel, and RPG meeting together in space to create an interesting story that has taken the time needed to construct some much-needed world building to establish the world you, the player, are inhabiting, the reasons behind the conflict that erupts, and you're forced into. In Sierra Ops, you are Junius Fahrenheit trying to overcome a traumatic moment from your past while leading the latest developed vessel into an unexpected war that Sierra itself wasn't built for. Despite the strength and power of the vessel you're given, can you win a war, stay true to your ideals, and overcome the chains of your past that keep Junius closed off to others? Sierra Ops' combat feels decent. You're able to customize the weapons your ship, Sierra, has and even design new weaponry depending on what blueprints you acquire. This has the potential to give the player multiple options on how to develop their Sierra and the actual combat feels fun to me. Having double speed is good and allows players to cut down on time in battle, especially when you're closing the distance or cleaning up to finish the battle. You're also able to take on a wingman ship that will level up after enough combat, so try to keep them alive yeah? The visual novel aspect sees you deciding who to hang out with during free time in order to better your relationship with them. It sees you deciding who the first few people on your ship will be with one of the first destination choices in the game, opening several paths of replayability with their own pieces of world building and stories to uncover. I found it quite enojoyable when one character pointed out an important person on the enemy side from past history that not only did some world building, but made me go "I know that guy!" when I saw him later on in another path. It was an enjoyable moment where I was able to use information acquired from one character on a side mission to realize the identity of an enemy before the characters themselves realized it due to being on a different path. The RPG aspect is a mix of the previous two with your choices impacting the war. It might not seem like it at first glance, but in order to win this war for the UTV your mission choices matter. Whichever missions you choose can impact the war to various degrees that aren't immediately clear. Some missions have larger impact than others, but all do impact main missions you partake in. You cannot do every side mission per segment and thus you'll need to weigh your options on which is more important to you. A mission that could better your relationship with a certain character? A difficult, but valuable supply mission that will surely impact the war and the view of your peers? Your options are limited, Captain, but you must make a decision. You could also choose to forgo the side missions entirely, at your own peril. Personally I've enjoyed Sierra Ops so far and bought the Season Pass quite some time ago. Although I need to play more and finish some paths up to their current completion, I've enjoyed the story and missions I've played so far. They're actively updating the game with bug fixes, some additions, and updates for the next two bigger episodes. Can't wait for their release!

It was almost like playing/reading a Gundam story. And I mean it in a positive way. I hope the future episodes continue with this level of quality. P.s. my playtime seems to be a little off. Probably because I was partly offline during my playtime. I played around 6-7hours so far.

This game is not bad. I don't want to comment overly much on the plot of the visual novel since it is not done. The world and characters are good, though. The gameplay is odd. It can be very boring because you wait for things to happen. I feel it could be improved upon but it would require making a choice to commit towards a certain style. The current setup seems torn in several directions. It's not a bad start but it is lacking and I'm interested in seeing how it develops.

Liked the story and the gameplay is nice big + that you can build up your ships weapons etc. Love these kinda novels and games about space battles, really liked how the story proceeds and that your choices actually seems to matters, the mechs looked nice, can't wait to see more and that it's Earth fighting Mars gave me a little nostalgia to watch The Expanse again. Actually spent 6 whole hours playing because i couldn't stop being emerged with the story 10/10 For being a good novel with seemingly "your choice matters" IMO at least.

This game is fun and has a lot of replay value. As an RTS/visaul novel hybrid, this game delivers on satisfying the itch for both kinds of games. The experience itself is unique and the characters are well written and lovable. Story line of futuristic Terran vs Martian is well thought out and I can't wait for more episodes to come out. My only complaint is the MC's inner dialogue, when they literally repeat themselves 3-4 times in a row. That gets old quick. Other than that, if you're looking for something new and fun, this is the game you've been looking for.

Good Visual Novel style Space Opera with action-focused combat. Even though the Space Opera setting has been done in many places, you can feel the world building at play, with all the elements working with or against other parts. If you're big into sci-fi world building, there's a lot to like here. The characters do feel like they've lived in the world for awhile. Fair warning: the story is a bit of a slow burn. While it does start off with a critical moment, it takes awhile for it to be put in context and for the story to get going proper. The strategy action bits are pretty fun with each mission being crafted to have different objectives, though I wish there were a free-play mode where you can play the action games freely. At this time there doesn't feel like a whole lot of enemy variety, though I suspect it will get fleshed out more over time. All in all, purchase this if you enjoy: -Visual Novel elements -Varied character archetypes -Space Operas with good world-building -Space strategy-action games (smaller scale of a typical RTS, more small-unit tactics) Terra aeternum.

Don't buy this, I have purchased the season pass on the 30th of August 2020, to this day the devs have not provided any updates. On the 24. May 2020 they posted that Episode 2 demo is almost ready, on the 11. January 2021 they posted that Episode 2 is nearly done. Today is the 05. April 2021 and nada. none of the content promised in the season pass DLC is available for play because it doesn't exist and it looks to me like it never will. The content of Episode 1 can be casually played through in 10 minutes if you don't focus on the dialogue and if you do, the writing is really trash.

It is a very ambitious game, combining a Visual Novel, a star ship fleet command game, and a twin stick shooter. This very wide net may not appeal to everyone, but combined with its replayability and the option of either playing it purely as a visual novel or as an arcade game gives wide options. I will point out it took me nearly 8 hours to complete a single run through. At the time of this review there are two episodes, comprising a intro and around four chapters of story. Because of a limited number of actions you can take during phases means there were many pieces of content i have not seen yet, both on the relationship side and the combat side. It is a bit of a slog for those who are here for combat and play it on the normal mode, I think it took around two hours of novel to get to the arcade portion of the game. I was streaming the game so it is very likely i was not doing it with haste, i am however a fast reader so take that as you will. There is a loyal base that follows this, and if you do enjoy please support the developers, This is not abandon-ware, but 2022 has not been kind to anyone.

still waiting for the updates :( game play: kinda cool story: kinda generic anime troupe so far would recommend: i dunno would play: most definitely Only did a single run so far since it's incomplete so kinda not interested in doing all routes but overall, not a bad space opera game, pretty good even if you're easily immersed and absorbed to Interactive semi-VN kind of games. But for the love of all gods in existence, I'm already growing gray hairs. I'd really love to finish this game before going to my death bed please.

What a great story and a fun gameplay mechanic, with the ship battles / mecha control. High production value, the music is great, the graphics/videos are spot on; I very much enjoyed playing Sierra Ops, or rather, what there is of it. It's a rotten shame the game hasn't been updated in a year, with no news on either Steam or their Trello. Best to avoid this title until there's significant activity, since you're pretty much left on an absurd cliffhanger. The two episodes included in Sierra Ops are short, too, about 6 hours, so there ultimately isn't a lot of meat on this bone to begin with.