Etherium Critic Reviews

Etherium is a good RTGS that give its best in multiplayer, if you find someone to play with.

It doesn’t have much of a story or a big sprawling singleplayer campaign with characters, but then neither does Chess or Draughts, and they’re still fairly solid strategy games!

There’s a lot of familiar territory and some attempt to move in new directions, but nothing particularly ground-breaking.

It's not as huge as Supreme Commander and not as fast as Star Craft, but it doesn't want to be. But without a single player campaign there's something missing.

Etherium is a good strategy game that shines in its multiplayer options.

Might not be one for veterans, but newcomers will get plenty from Etherium.

Etherium is a solid science-fiction RTS. It does not bring a lot of new things to the table, but it still is very entertaining. The tutorial is a bit short, we miss depth in this game and the design is not always as smooth as we would have liked. But, this games holds our attention for way longer than we would have expected. Etherium is highly addictive because of its high difficulty level and strategy elements.

Etherium shows good ideas and it tries to bring some fresh air to the RTS scene but it suffers from a variety of mistakes that, in the end, play against it.

Etherium makes a bet by mixing the best ingredients, but the result is not exactly the best dish.

Etherium is an RTS that sticks to the classic formula of the genre. It doesn't do anything particularly outstanding, but still works.

Etherium shows a lot of potential but lacks inspiration. The three factions don’t play diversely enough, base building is rudimentary at best.

Developers tried really hard to make sure that battles don’t always go the same way: there are mercs, global strikes, camouflage and sandstorms, not to mention “rocks-paper-scissors” balance and surprisingly competent AI. Of course, Etherium is not David that can bring down Blizzard’s Goliath, but it’s great to see that RTS is no longer a forgotten genre.

There’s a potential for greatness within Etherium, but this isn’t fully realized throughout the game.

It might not scale the lofty heights of its illustrious predecessors, but it’s got some fresh ideas and is certainly worth a look if bossing units around is your bread and butter.

Etherium is never aggressively terrible, but there’s nothing to recommend it over other, more interesting RTS games.

Even if you fight simultaneously on multiple fronts, the game drags on and wears you down with repetitiveness and tedium.

Since there’s no way to play the campaign multiplayer, you’re stuck beating up the sad confused AI players in space, while falling prey to its ruthless efficiency planetside.

Although Etherium is a complex strategy, its tactical fights are boring and global section is trivial. The repetitive nature of the game undermines any other effort, so eventually you will again reach for its obvious inspiration called Empire at War.

RTS lovers will be satisfied as long as they are the encyclopedic fans only. Repetitiveness of the campaigns, soulless environment and a weird interface make this game extremely boring and odd.