Sumerian Six

Gamer EscapeTimothy "Urthdigger" Hyldahl

10/10

While there are the occasional small flaws here and there, Sumerian Six is easily one of the best stealth games I’ve played. It’s easy to fall into a trap of making your stealth too easy or too frustrating, but generous player tools and the puzzle-like encounters help it ride that fine line to perfection.

The Nerd StashPatrick Armstrong

8.5/10

Sumerian Six offers juicy tactical gameplay and a ton of polish, suffering somewhat from high difficulty and large levels.

Steam Deck HQOliver Stogden

8/10

Sumerian Six does require you to run at the lowest settings to make it playable on the Steam Deck, but once you do, it's a perfectly fine experience.

ShackNewsJosh Broadwell

8/10

That creative freedom and the tools Artificer gives you to work with make it easy to deal with Sumerian Six’s rockier moments and, frankly blatant imitation of games that came before. The team clearly has a strong understanding of how to make the most of the genre's basic tools, and here is where I'd normally say I hope to see even better things from them in the future. With Devolver having laid off half of Artificer's staff earlier in 2024, though, the studio's future seems unclear.

Checkpoint GamingCharlie Kelly

8/10

There has been a stealth tactics-shaped hole in my heart since genre game smiths Mimimi Games, developers of Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, Desperados III and Shadow Tactics shuttered late last year. Gone is that tactical feeling of infiltrating areas and pulling off the impossible in real-time. Until now. Coming to save me and frankly gaming as a whole is Sumerian Six, a new stealth tactics game from Artificer, the developers of the 2023 turn-based tactics game Showgunners. This new eff...

WellPlayedAsh Wayling

7/10

While frayed on more than a couple edges, Sumerian Six still manages to deliver a brilliant strategy experience that nails that oh-so endangered feeling of micro-managerial mayhem.