The strategy turn-based tactics genre is a hard one to break into, mostly because a few games have already nailed it down to near perfection. XCOM, Fire Emblem, and Wasteland have basically set the blueprint, and they’ve done it so well that any new entry has to work extra hard to stand out. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for something new to shake things up a bit. Chains of Freedom definitely tries to do just that.
Chains of Freedom, developed by Nordcurrent, drops us into a post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe where everything is falling apart. You play as a squad of soldiers who are shot down behind enemy lines. The team is split up during the crash, and the early hours of the game revolve around reuniting with your squadmates — well, some of them. It’s not long before the group uncovers a much more significant threat: shady government conspiracies and rogue scientists experimenting with things they definitely shouldn’t.
The premise itself is solid, but as the story... Read more