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Lead a 1930s desert expedition, chart branching routes, manage supplies, and fight occult forces in turn-based squad battles.
Released 11 Apr 2019
Choose Desert Routes
Fight From Cover
Make Event Choices
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Developed by Robotality · Published by Chucklefish
In 1936, assemble a team of adventurers and journey across North African and Middle Eastern deserts to uncover ancient secrets before Nazi forces do. The campaigns pit your squad against soldiers and supernatural foes in a pulp-adventure setting.
Travel between locations on branching maps, spending fuel as you choose routes through encounters, shops, combat sites, and story events. Make choices during brief events, weigh risks against possible rewards, and manage fuel, ammunition, and supplies along the way.
When fights begin, position your squad on grid-based battlefields, use cover, flank enemies, and make use of character abilities. Recruit and unlock adventurers with different skills and quirks, equip them with weapons and armor, and replay campaigns with new events and team combinations.
Players who enjoy Pathway often point to its pulp-adventure atmosphere, pixel-art presentation, and approachable turn-based combat. Several also like experimenting with different teams and routes. Other reviews find that events and fights become repetitive, tactical options feel limited, or fuel management restricts exploration.
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.
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.
With soundtrack by the critically-acclaimed composer, Gavin Harrison of Halfway fame!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 75 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 68/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
