All Walls Must Fall – A Tech-Noir Tactics Game

Quite enjoyed this up to the end of the campaign. A little jank, particularly some of the conversations with rando NPCs, but nothing inappropriate for gay german nightclubs.
Then the end of the campaign punished me for doing what the game told me to and killed me. With no walkbacks, because fuck the time travel mechanic I guess.
Okay, start on new game plus so I can try to do better I guess? The levels are now MASSIVE. I mean prohibitively, exhaustingly large to traverse and investigate, the camera won't zoom out and there's no map to even keep track of where I've been, I'm burning resources just trying to find the critical objectives.
Then someone aggros who can't be un-aggro'd (because it's NG+ and they show up on the first level ofc) and now there are dozens, upwards of a hundred enemies gunning for me. Still haven't found the critical objective. Run out of Time Points and die and the game is now permadeath because it's NG+ I guess so the campaign is locked and I have to start over on a new save.
Except now on this new save for some reason I can't replay levels, I'm forced to play it in a linear fashion?
The campaign was enjoyable if short the first time through. If it had just ended there - if that had been a dark comedy ending and there was no alternative and it played that way every time - it would've been fine. But the game then actively punished me for trying to play it again. So...
Most conflicted thumb's-up I've given to date.

This game is an odd ball.
Pros: Easy to learn, difficult to master. Every level seems to be set in a gay club (which I enjoy, despite it being unrealistic) and you can flirt with just about everybody. Capacity for stealthing or shooting your way out. Campaigns are somewhat procedurally generated, which adds a nice element of unpredictability. The story is sparse but seems intriguing and the world is interesting. The main character is unique and I like that the devs went with someone who isn't your typical action hero but is still likeable.
Cons: The dialogue/charming system seems to be entirely arbitrary whether the NPC likes what you said or not, which makes it incredibly frustrating to try and stealth. There are some dialogues where you have to just guess a name, and it's a total potluck whether you guess the right one or not, and I hate it. It's actually in some cases much easier to just shoot your way through. The game gives you an achievement if you complete the level without killing anyone (usually via stealthing), so stealth is clearly intended to be more difficult, but it's not happening for the right reasons.
Furthermore, there's a mechanic where if you get too close to an enemy, they will attack you; I don't really understand why you can pass off as a normal person in a dialogue with one enemy, and then instantly get attacked by another enemy. It feels like the stealthing system was a good idea but needed to be thought out a little further in terms of mechanics and internal consistency.
The dialogues can also get repetitive pretty quickly; the devs didn't write too much variation into them, which I think was a missed opportunity to expand on the world they've built.
Conclusion: I would definitely recommend this game. It's good fun and has that element of "nearly-got-it" that keeps you trying the same level over and over again without getting so frustrated you quit. I do wish the stealth mechanic was a little better. I really enjoy games that allow you to choose between stealthing and attacking, but it feels almost like the game has handed you a tool that only works half of the time. However, for an indie game it's impressively done. I look forward to the devs' future games.

I picked this up expecting another cover-based tactical RPG, in the vein of XCOM - but it turned out to be something rather different and far more interesting. While you CAN bull your way through by way of guns, armor and a cover-system, you never get a team - you're just one man, however well-armed and cybernetically enhanced. Thus, you must rely on your strongest weapon - time manipulation! You can rewind everything to undo your actions, rewind for everyone except yourself to effectively 'teleport' from everybody else's perspective, or rewind ONLY yourself in order to, say, undo injuries and put bullets you've already fired back in the magazine. You can also, y'know, TALK to people, which is downright overpowered - a couple of pheromone-upgrades, and you'll be able to talk your way in and out of just about anywhere without firing a single bullet.
So, to sum up - a time-twisting game of spy-versus-spy set in a near-future East Berlin where the wall never fell and the Cold War is still going strong. It's a lot simpler than the likes of XCOM, ultimately, but fortunately also a lot shorter - and a lot cheaper - so it doesn't wear out its welcome, nor feel too short for its price. Took me three hours to clear it, and I might do a few more runs for the game's vast number of achievements... figuring out how to use the time-twisting abilities to optimally decimate your various enemies might be fun!

This game is promising and if developers kept up with updates im sure it will be amazing, but with the last update (time of review) being on the 21 October 2019 (272 days ago) I feel like this is all of the love the game will get.
If you love turn based strategy games then im sure you will love this game! - I personally am not a fan of this genre but I did still enjoy the time I played it for

All walls must fall is a flawed game, the dialoge options most of the time make little to no sense and the balancing of the game difficulty isn't great, but even then this game is so damn fun! it's very repetitive thanks to its only setting beeing a nightclub but the action parts are very well made and designed and the upgreads leave some choise to your playstyle. Even with its flaws it's a game worth playing and a very unique indie