Pathway
Robotality · 2019 · Turn-Based Tactics, Pixel Graphics, Strategy RPG, Exploration, Choose Your Own Adventure
PC
Mostly Positive77% · 1,90168Metacritic
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About Pathway
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Assemble a team of adventurers and race across 1930s North Africa in turn-based tactical combat, uncovering hidden treasures and ancient secrets while battling Nazi forces through randomized campaigns filled with meaningful story choices. Each mission generates new encounters and combat scenarios, letting you experiment with 16 unique characters and their special abilities to overcome increasingly difficult challenges.
The year is 1936...
In a time of global turmoil, Nazi influence spreads inexorably across Europe and the Middle East. Rumors are abound of secret excavations, mysterious artifacts, and even the odd whisperings and tales of gruesome occult rituals...It's up to you to assemble a team of bold adventurers to journey through the desert. Explore bunkers and temples of Northern Africa to discover their hidden treasures and secrets before they fall into the hands of Nazi forces. Pathway is a turn-based strategy game designed to provide players with approachable, fast-paced and fun squad skirmishes in an early 20th century pulp-adventure setting. Quickly run for cover, flank enemies and utilize your team’s special abilities to turn the tide of battle in your favor!
On the way to the mission objective, your team will trek through a randomized map, encountering a series of brief, ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ stories. The key to a successful mission will be to manage the risks that you take during these encounters, but remember that missions can be repeated at any time - with a new series of events to encounter each time you restart.
Features:
- DYNAMIC ADVENTURES - Discover 5 different campaigns of varying difficulty, each attempt generating a new web of events...
- TOUGH CHOICES - Explored locations often present a brief, hand-crafted story event. Search the well? Save the villagers? It's up to you!
- DECISIVE CONFLICTS - Use cover and positioning in exciting turn-based squad combat. Learn to make the best use of your team's abilities and equipment in order to defeat the enemy!
- BUILD YOUR TEAM OF ADVENTURERS - Each of Pathway’s 16 unlockable characters has their own set of skills and quirks which can impact combat and story encounters.
- HIDDEN TREASURES - Trade-in your high-value loot in order to upgrade your team's arsenal with increasingly rare weapons and armor.
- RECOVER & REPLAY - Experiment with different team combinations until your foes have been vanquished!
- THRILLING VISUALS - Classic 16-bit pixel art enhanced with unprecedented depth, lighting and shadows using Pixel/Voxel Hybrid Technology.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This was a very vanilla experience, tho if this was someone's early attempt at game making: thumbs up. What hinders this game is the scarcity of fuel for your vehicle. Moving one space on the map cost one fuel. Everything cost a lot in the game. Fuel costs a lot. You gain little compensation for killing enemies. Therefore, making money is hard. Without money, you can't buy fuel. If you can't buy fuel, then you can't explore many of the extra points of interests on the map because if you travel without fuel you lose 15-25% of your health every time you move to a new point on the map; therefore, my journeys stuck to the shortest routes possible. But by the end of Adventure 2 that's fine because you have pretty much seen everything the game is going to offer. Also, oddly enough, adventure 2 is the longest adventure which is weird because there are 3 more after it. The adventures hold no emotional value or weight or continuity. In fact, I'm not sure why I am even driving around genocide-ing the "Cult" in Adventures 3-5. You are dropped into the Middle East to kill people trying to perform resurrections. Resurrections that wouldn't harm anyone as far as I could tell. Very Western Hem…4 found this helpful
This is a terrific game with solid tactical combat and a real sense of adventure. The game's two main mechanisms are character building and resource management. While the resource management is basic and unobtrusive (fuel, supplies and ammo), the character building has a lot of variety and has a definite impact on how each mission (as well as each individual encounter) will go. You characters have typical RPG style stats as well has skills with weapons, repair kits, medical kits, etc. Each character also has some traits, like daredevil, sixth sense, engineering, etc. and these traits give you more options during encounters. Building a team with a good variety among all these things will make a significant difference on how things unfold. The nice thing is that there isn't really a "best" way to do it. You can be just as successful with one team as any other, you can mix things up and experiment with new team-builds as you see fit. With a little more than 30 hours invested so far, I think this game will keep me busy for quite a while longer. There's a lot of gear to find and I've not yet completed all the adventures. The only complaint I think I will have once I am done is …2 found this helpful
kill some nazis!yes!1 found this helpful
ultimately i think i can recommend this for turn based tactics gamers and for folks who love killing nazis looking for magic artifacts tropes. its a bit simple but it gets the job done and scratches the itch just enough to get on discount.
Fun, however a little bit easy even putting the hardest options
a bit like XCOM but a bit slow and less interesting decisions
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