Took me 92 hurs for a full playthrough, where I tried to play as much content as possible. The story is good, the combat is the classic Owlcat formula: pick your most comfortable difficulty and roll with it, there's no joy in repeatedly getting run over by the enemies. The Warhammer 40000 vibes are there, with the intrigue, generaly belligerant bigotry and shortsightedness of the people living in such a universe creating an enticing, if frustrating, setting you can immerse yourself into.
The game is definitely a turn-based tactics game, but with the "limb system" characteristic of Battletech. It's also a pretty tough one, where unless you're modding yourself to hell you're going to be grinding and grinding for a long while before your silly little mercenary outfit actually assumes the semblance of a proper threat. The AI is not too dumb, but neither too smart, the action economy can get very annoying at times since you'll be outnumbered very often, but it's all perfectly doable given you learn the mechanics well enough. The story is fine if a bit tropey, and had me actually more interested in the secondary villain (Commodore Ostergaard) rather than in the main one (the Espinosas). I got it here cause all the DLCs were on discount, and they really add to the experience with a bunch of new battlemechs, objectives, areas, and "Flashpoint" scenarios, whch can be both just high-risk high reward procedurally generated ones, or story driven ones. I enjoyed it all in all, and I did so enough to actually have the drive to go for a second playthrough of the Campaign, which usually never passes through my mind when these kinda games are concerned.
