Warshift is reviewed at brainy and nerdy and they find it worthy of your time.

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The WARSHIFT we have access to now can easily be called experimental, giving you third-person control of your units, the ability to build bases, customize your vehicles and command large armies all at (approximately) the same time, so there is no wonder that you get to feel overwhelmed at times.

The WARSHIFT lore

The story of the game is set in 2062 on the colony Enigma that gets invaded by the Atroid aliens coming from a parallel world. Since they are spectral, the aliens covered their shapes with exoskeletons (a convenient way of introducing robot designs) and started building an army that turned half of the planet into a desert environment. To answer this threat, the Delta battalion was created with robots of their own and cyber-guards.

The commander of these armies leads through the telepathic skills from behind a mothership called the ARK and they can join the fight as well by operating a combat avatar that is basically the hero-unit of the game. You can improve this unit with new weapons, upgrades and even transform it into a more powerful unit. Some of the commanders can change between ground and flying mode and there are many customization options for them.

The action RTS-RPG Warshift has been released on Steam and is 50% off until 26th October.

About This Game
WARSHIFT is the unique mix of the Action, Strategy and Role-playing gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters. This unusual gameplay requires a complete change of your play style.

The game is developed just by one person, who is both game designer, artist and programmer in this project. He worked hard for more than 5 years to implement a lot of his and the game community's ideas.

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Kotaku takes a look at the Early Access game Warshift - an Action RTS/RPG mix:

Ambitious RTS Hybrid Was Made By Just One Man

WARSHIFT is a new-ish game on Early Access that wasn’t quite sure if it wanted to be an RTS or an action game. So it ended up being both.

I’ve been messing around with it today and, while it’s far from perfect—the UI is unnecessarily cluttered and unwieldy for a genre that requires precision and speed—it’s still an impressive achievement considering it’s the work of a single developer.

Yup. One. Over the past three years (and following one successful Kickstarter) everything from art to design to programming has been handled by Cyril Megem.

WARSHIFT works mainly as an RTS in the vein of Battlezone; you land on an alien planet, you build buildings and units and you try and crush the other team. But at any time you can take control of a hero/avatar unit and fight in the battles yourself, and over the course of a campaign (yes, there’s a singleplayer campaign) those units can level up and unlock new stuff. [...]

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