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Cruelty Squad

Cruelty Squad

Released: 6/16/2021

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.

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.

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.

Critics
93
Steam
96
Metacritic
87

Score Breakdown

93.0

Critic Average

1 reviews

96

Steam User Score

23,427 reviews

87

Metacritic User Score

81 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-3.2
Metacritic Disparity
+6.0
Combined Disparity
+1.4

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 launch window (100%)0 late (0%)