Halfway is stern with its difficulty, and indie game developers Robotality have made no compromises in providing a challenge. Halfway does a good job of creating a pressing sense that resources aren’t to be squandered whilst avoiding the pitfall of being too harsh. Medkits and ammunition packs must be used to replenish health and firepower, respectively, and these are not exactly plentiful. Most of these are quite useful such as one character’s ability to heal herself without a medkit and another’s guaranteed critical hit power. In addition to the usual move, shoot, aim dynamic, each character has a unique active ability with a turn-based cooldown. Knowing when to maneuver your survivors and when to take advantage of the aim ability makes for some tricky decisions. Attacking takes up one of your two actions and you may sacrifice the other in order to aim (thus increasing your chance to hit your target). The typical turn-based system is present here with characters able to perform two actions per turn, one or both of which may be moving a set distance determined by their agility stat.
Halfway begins with a relatively gentle introduction to the action, but it doesn’t get bogged down in tutorials, quickly explaining how to get things done before dropping you into some intense turn-based combat. Halfway is one such contender that comes with nicely polished features. That being said, it hasn’t exactly exploded in popularity and it is still considered a niche interest, so it is always good to see a strong new contender for our strategizing diversion.
Thanks to the sweeping success of the XCOM remake, tactical turn-based combat has enjoyed a return to the spotlight and some renewed attention in the gaming industry. You must lead them in a fight for survival whilst unraveling the truth of what is happening to ships during their long distance journeys. You control a group of people on board a starship which encounters this phenomenon. Unfortunately, ships are starting to mysteriously disappear while using this advancement, and it’s beginning to look like something strange is happening when vessels are in transit.
Halfway’s story is set in a future where interstellar travel has been achieved through the invention of a faster-than-light drive technology.
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