Halfway Critic Reviews

I really like Halfway. As a turn based strategy game with a great atmosphere that offers a steep but engaging challenge, it’s a good game. It’s still a bit limited, but I want to play it. Again. Right now. And that’s surely a good sign.

Not the deepest strategy game around, but fast-paced, engaging and ultimately very fun to play.

Halfway is a simple but good turn-based strategy game, taking place a few hundred years into the future on a huge spaceship. The story with some similarities to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey makes the game really interesting and the turn-based combat-system is quite challenging. The biggest flaw of the game is that there is no possibility to save the game during a mission.

It’s not a ground-breaking title, and those last few levels almost had me rage-quitting, but the traits allow for some fun strategies and if you’re wanting an enjoyable sci-fi story with your TBS/RPG elements, then Halfway is more than worth the miniscule price being asked for it. I look forward to the sequel (please).

Fortunately, the accessibility of Halfway provides an easy introduction.

Halfway's environments, writing, and musical score convey a sense of quiet perseverance, but the gameplay doesn't communicate that feeling as clearly as it should.

A good game to play between your XCOM or Xenonauts sessions, with interesting characters, a great setting and a simple but efficient gameplay. RPG mechanisms don't prevail on tactical choices, as the game make you face a growing threat. A pretty good job from Robotality. Not perfect, but worth the price.

Halfway is not a complex game, but it is intense turn-based action from the depths of space. It is not original, nor sophisticated in terms of its combat system, but the atmosphere of the destroyed ship Goliath will surely appeal to you.

Solid turn based tactical ops with well-executed pixel visuals.

A relatively tough but mechanically lean sci-fi strategy game.

What is good here is really good, but what is bad detracts enough that the entire package is a bit of a disappointment. A great piece of science fiction may ask a lot of hard questions and make the audience think. Halfway is not a great piece of science fiction, but it is a good strategy game for those willing to put some effort into it.

It’s not an indie blockbuster, but it can arouse some enthusiasm if you enjoy tactical games.

It's an attractive game, then, and easy to pick up, but also a tad too static and shallow in its tactics. You're not making the biggest mistake of your life if you give this a chance. But at the same time, you could just as well finally try and finish XCOM in 'Ironman' mode.