Meridian: Squad 22 Reviews

First mission. Built too many drones. Can't create more farms. Can't order troops to kill drones. I defeated myself.

The amount of time i had my units freeze in spot, or get stuck not able to be moved or 'commanded' ruined a lot of maps. Cool concept, but not made perfectly.

A fantastic old-school RTS with an innovative research system. At the time of writing this review, there are only 4 campaign missions available, but it's all really great. I can't wait to find out where the story is going. The music and sound effects also blew my mind and to me, these are easily the highlights! There's also a Conquest mode which gives you randomly generated missions to play. I can see how this could get repetitive in the long run, but for now it works really great! A thumbs up from me, I definitely recommend this game!

Significant improvement over New World, still not great. Units now are easily recognizable, map zoom and rotation is present, although pretty limited, upgrades make sense. Problem is still with AI — in conquest mode every single match will play out exactly the same, enemy AI never ever deviates from it's pattern: build several units (depending on difficulty), attack main base using most direct route (so you only need to build defenses only in one place), wait several minutes, repeat. On base side of thing it will only rebuild powerplants and factories. Destroyed turret control center, removing all defenses? Whatever. Buy with very deep discount, play 10-12 conquest matches and delete forever.

If you've never played meridien before then prepare for frustration. There's no manual/user guide - you either have to fumble around yourself to work out how to do things or ask the (extremely friendly and helpful) community. However, having to keep pausing the game to go log a question on the forum and waiting for an answer makes this game more of a turn-based game than a RTS... It may be fun to play once you know how to play it, but... it depends how patient you are and how much of a pain you want to be by keep posting questions on game-play at the forum.

I couldn't get into it. Storyline was hokey as heck, gameplay reminded me of Command & Conquer with a user interface still deeply rooted in 1995; frustrating and hard to use. Game progression was slow annoying timed missions through very easy near-tutorial levels. Maybe it's a good game if you get into it but there was nothing enjoyable about this for me.

This is a small scale game. A pickup once and playthrough game, both campaign and extended skirmish. But at the same time despite its short playtime and little replay value its a nice cheep little RTS with allot of heart put into it (as far as I am aware one guy made most of this, I could be wrong). Reminds me of a mix of Halo Wars and Starcraft. I see allot of complaints about unpolished and not up to the par of modern RTS but at the end of the day thats asking allot from a small studio that wants to put out a product. While I would agree there are elements that can use improvement like larger maps, more factions, a better and larger unit cap system (larger zoom out, better unit stats display, simply allot of little things that honest I at least don't mind because the game is playable and most RTS games have their UI quirks you just need to get used to on some level). I play allot of RTS games, this one is not bad and I have played far worse. I bought it cause I wanted to support the developers, and I hope they go on to make more and greater games! I am giving it a positive review because I enjoyed playing it. I bothered even writing a review because it seems some people seem to downvote it just because it doesn't meet Triple-A RTS game standards. IDK, just my opinion.

Squad 22 isn't perfect. Right off the bat, there's no true skirmish mode, which is an odd ommission. There's no mod support, which is unfortunate. And many of the campaign missions are very "find the right build pattern" in nature. Never-the-less, it's awesome: The bad guys are called Skeleborgs, which is more Warhammer 40K than actual Warhammer 40K. The gameplay plays fairly akin to Starcraft, but with naval and technology layers. Maps are just begging for you to explore them. The game is very biased to singleplayer, with multiple ways to play. I mentioned that there's killer skeletal robots called Skeleborgs, right? Squad 22 is likely worth more than they're actually asking for, you'll definitely get your money's worth.

The game is "OK", however it is not worth the 14.99$ price tag. I bought the game on sale for 2.99$, and for that price, its worth its value, but that's mostly because it feels unpolished, and it is also lacking a lot of the traditional RTS controls, like being able to give units multiple commands to execute in sequence. Would i recommend the game? If the game is on sale for less than 5$, yes, but 5$ is the most i would pay for this game, any more than that, and it just isn't worth buying. I know the game was released in 2016, but even back then, standards were a lot higher than what was put into the project here. If the developer would add QOL features for general RTS control schemes, then i think the game would be worth the 15$, but for me, it is almost unplayable, due to the controls being lacking.

I was torn in deciding whether to recommend this or not, but in the end I have to say no. It has elements that, if tweaked, I feel the game would be so much more enjoyable. Pro's: 1) Decent story, although there is a slight pause between each dialogue startup. 2) The way the resource gathering is designed is very similar to Starcraft, one of my favorite RTS games. 3) The levels have a very nice looking design and they make the attempt to be different from the previous map. Con's: 1) Not nearly enough units can be produced. Starcraft and C&C 3 Tiberium Wars were so much more enjoyable to me because they allowed for a huge amount of units to be on the map at once. This game requires you to basically expand to another mineral patch before being able to build more units. 2) The maps do not let you place buildings anywhere you want. No matter where I try to build the building space always seems to be red. The same applies for where units can explore. Sometimes it looks like explorable terrain but your units can't really go anywhere. 3) A lot of the maps just feel like you're defending against nonstop waves of enemies that keep appearing from off the map. It gets repetitive very fast. All in all to me some of these con's outweighed the pro's and I got bored real fast. As such, I can't give my full recommendation that this is an enjoyable game. But this is just my opinion so if you want to try out a decent new RTS then go for it.