When comparing Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land vs Shadowrun: Hong Kong, the Slant community recommends Shadowrun: Hong Kong for most people. In the question“What are the best Turn-Based Tactics games on Steam?” Shadowrun: Hong Kong is ranked 16th while Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Shadowrun: Hong Kong is:
The characters, missions and dialogue are extremely well written.
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Pros
Pro Requires good planning
Each character in the game has a set amount of action points meaning the player needs to tally how much it would take to move and then use a weapon when deciding on where to place each of their characters. this requires careful planning and makes for fun strategy focused gameplay.
Pro Excellent writing
The characters, missions and dialogue are extremely well written.
Pro Rich story and universe
This is the 3rd installment of Shadowrun from Hairbrained Schemes Development, giving us even more fantastic story content to explore. Much like the previous game the story is BladeRunner esque as a cyberpunk type story but with a twist of involving fantasy elements such as Orks and Elves.
Pro Engrossing theme
Fantastic setting blends science with magic. The Classic Shadowrun experience from the original creators.
Cons
Con Individual characters much more important
While gameplay-wise this is very similar, there are mission fail-states if core characters die, meaning you don't get quite the same meat-grinder recruitment as in the X-COM/XCOM games.
Con Nothing much new added to the gameplay from previous games
While the developers are not trying to stray from a working formula it would have been nice to see some new elements added tot the gameplay over just refinement.