Athena Crisis
You’ll be right at home in the world of Athena Crisis if you’re a fan of Into The Breach, Advance Wars, or XCOM. This modern-retro turn-based strategy game presents a gripping single-player campaign, alongside ranked and casual online multiplayer modes that keep you on your toes. Here’s the twist: the actions within your game world can echo across to other players’ experiences, and vice versa – creating a dynamic, interconnected universe.
Athena Crisis comes with a map editor for those who love crafting custom worlds, and a campaign editor for creating your own adventures. Create, share, and play maps and campaigns with friends and a vast online community, ensuring a constant stream of new challenges. Assemble your forces, defeat your foes, and secure victory not just in your world, but also in the others.
Key Features
- Command 30+ infantry, ground, naval and air units in turn-based battles
- Explore more than five environments with unique play-styles
- Immerse yourself in a single player campaign with memorable characters
- Compete online in ranked or casual battles with up to 7 players at once
- Create your own maps and campaigns and share them with the world
Steam User 0
My playtime on Steam is low because I mostly played in browser or on mobile.
Certainly more than *just* a clone of a certain handheld console game. There's a more sci-fi/fantasy bent to it, with units like jetpack troops, dragons or mecha; there's construction and destruction of buildings on the map; there's a lot of powers, but they aren't as dramatic as CO powers in AW; and finally there's an invasion system, where you can open yourself to get invaded by other players when playing campaign. Other players can help you, can hinder you or even take over the AI opponent! Matches can get pretty crazy when 5 players invade your game all at once and start fighting each other.
On top of that the game just looks good. My only complaints would be that some of the map decorations make maps a bit cluttered, music is only OK at best and Jeep sprite is too similar to Humvee (and honestly, the Jeep should have been a Supply Truck, as this is its role). The interface is optimised for touch controls, which makes mouse controls a little clunky.