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A corporate assassin infiltrates surreal dystopian levels, choosing weapons, routes and implants to eliminate targets and escape.
Released 15 Jun 2021
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Developed by Consumer Softproducts · Published by Consumer Softproducts
You play a mercenary hired by a corporate subsidiary to carry out assassinations in a bleak, surreal future. Each mission sends you into a location to eliminate or destroy designated targets and reach an exit.
Levels offer different routes and approaches, from stealth and careful planning to direct combat. You can choose from a varied arsenal, use implants to change your capabilities, and exploit hidden paths and equipment as you explore.
Completing missions earns money, while organs and fish can be sold and company stocks can be traded. Mission events affect the market, and you can return to stages to improve your times and pursue higher ranks; exploration also uncovers hidden gear and levels.
Players who enjoy Cruelty Squad often praise the freedom to find their own routes and solutions, along with the satisfaction of learning its challenging levels and returning to uncover secrets or improve runs. Reviews also highlight its unusual visual style and its bleak corporate satire, as well as the range of weapons and implants. Some players say the game takes time to click, and its abrasive presentation and difficulty are barriers for others.
WARNING: This game is not recommended for people with photosensitive epilepsy.
Cruelty Squad is a tactical first person shooter set in the hardcore gig economy of corporate liquidations. You're an emotionally dead combat-substance fueled grunt of Cruelty Squad, a depraved subsidiary company tasked with performing wetworks for its host conglomerate. Will you make the Corporate Arch Demoness proud or succumb to bitter tears of failure?
Highly kinematic tactical gameplay using varied weapons such as the flechette shotgun, silenced 10mm pistol, radiation emitter, dart gun, corrosive gas launcher and more.
No handholding!
All of the missions have multiple viable approaches and routes. Plan out your equipment loadout to gain a tactical advantage. Choose between non-lethal and lethal options. Throw toilet bowls at enemies.
Fight and sneak through offices, suburbs, police stations and secret compounds. Find and unlock hidden equipment and levels.
Open objective based gameplay, in each mission your goal is to kill or destroy your targets before heading for the exit.
Revisit earlier missions and try to beat your best time. Can you S-rank all of the missions?
Enemies including private security, cops, psycho freaks, flower hybrids, swamp cultists and mutant dogs.
Talk to NPCs and figure out the mysteries of the world.
Advanced death mechanics.
Stock and organ market simulation.
Punishment mode.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Steam Deck | Unsupported |
| Achievements | 38 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
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