Innovation is much prized in an industry such as gaming, which has had its various genres set in stone for a long time. More often than not, new ideas usually arise not from the established AAA developers, but from the small companies willing to take creative and financial chances to bring something new to an old concept. Such is the case with Achron, in which new developer Hazardous Software has taken the standard RTS formula and given players a new dimension to exploit.
Achron for the PC, published by Hazardous Software is a game based around time travel. For most people, when it comes to time travel, you think of titles like the Back to the Future franchise (released this year) or the games Blinx and TimeShift. Timeshift and Blinx treat the premise of time travel as you would a VCR by pausing rewinding and fast-forwarding the game without dealing with the consequences of alternative time line and paradoxes.
Hazardous Software has released a new update for its RTS Achron, adding several new gameplay adjustments, improvements, and bug fixes to the game.
Hundreds of years in the future, humans have begun colonizing other worlds, however they have been reliant on conventional propulsion systems that may take hundreds of years to reach their destination. This all changed when alien ruins were discovered in the Remnant system.
Within a few decades, all colonies were linked by a network of gates, and new colonies could be constructed in significantly less time.
The player is trapped on the wrong side of the gate and as one of the survivors, they must piece together what happened and unravel the mysteries of the alien invasion and the Remnant system itself.
