Paris, May 9 2023- Publisher Firesquid with Developer Angry Cat Studios are pleased to announce that their tactical squad shooter USC: Counterforce will have a completely new demo available during Steam TactiCon from May 11th through May 15th, 2023. Set in an intense sci-fi atmosphere players will engage in tactical combat, face challenging encounters and more when they dive into the demo.
USC: Counterforce is inspired by classic 90s tactical turn-based games. Players will take control of a team of commandos sent to the planetary body M-8322 in order to investigate and take down the alien forces located there. In order to defeat these powerful enemies, each commando is equipped with their own unique skills and passive abilities that could very well turn the tide in battle.
Starting May 11th, USC: Counterforce will have a brand new massive and highly replayable demo will consist of:
A fully reworked tutorial/prologue to learn the fundamentals of the game
The ’Scientific, data, Retrieval’ operation divided into three missions with new mechanics and three difficulty levels.
12 single missions distributed across three different map types, each of which can be played on any of the 5 available difficulty modes.
All items will be unlocked for players which will include thirteen weapon types with forty items in total to utilize.
Taking place on the second day of TactiCon, lead developer Aliza Wenders will be featured in a special video exclusive to the event. Aliza will touch on her experience working on both the original USC (Ultimate Space Commando) as a solo developer and USC: Counterforce with Junior Game Designer Csaba Bak over the past few years.
Features:
- Assemble the Ultimate Squad: Prepare your team for every situation! Featuring a class free system USC:CF allows you to fully customize your forces and face enemy threats however you see fit!
- Varied Weapons and Tools: Utilize melee and ranged weapons with various types of ammunition to take down enemies. Gather hacking tools, mines, turrets and more to strategize unique solutions.
- Fully Interactable Environments: Fight and explore interactable and destructible, multi-layered environments. Rearrange the battlefield, build barricades, avoid and exploit environmental hazards, lay traps and more.
- Determine the Fate of Mankind: Experience this science fiction adventure and discover the truth behind the demise of planetary body M-8322. Explore dark and deadly environments where dangers lurk around every corner.
USC: Counterforce is set to release later this year. Players can play the brand new, hugely in-depth demo during Steam’s Tacticon Event starting May 11th through May 15th. Join the discussion with like-minded marines over on the official Discord.
About Angry Cat Studios
Angry Cat Studios was founded in 2015 with the release of Ultimate Space Commando (USC) on Steam. In the next years, the studio experimented with a few prototypes in a search for its next project which resulted in a hardcore puzzle-platformer PC game, Mimic Hunter which has been ported to Nintendo Switch by the team. Now, they’re back into the world of PC games to bring players to USC: Counterforce! Though it’s a very small company, they are still triple A: adorable, aspiring, and authentic!
About Firesquid
Indie publisher focused on games that include strategizing and thinking in their broadest sense; from tactics to city-builders or any other game where the brain is the most important muscle. Firesquid aims at developing a catalog of strategy titles that modernize and revisit their genres. Firesquid works closely with developers to help them make the best game they can, and focuses on developing communities around their strategy games.
