Warshift

Warshift combines base building, troop management, action combat and character customization. You build a base and manage your troops, then take direct control of a combat avatar to fight on the battlefield. The game shifts between these ways of playing.

The invasion of Enigma

In 2062, the alien Atroids invade the colonial planet Enigma from a parallel world through the hypothetical Gates of Chaos. These non-material beings use strong physical shells, or exoskeletons, to affect their surroundings. They create an army of alien droids able to fight in any environment and at any temperature, and their powerful energy weapons overwhelm the planet’s defenses. Their attack destroys the biosphere, turning half the planet’s surface into a lifeless desert.

After the garrison of volunteer soldiers suffers heavy losses, it is evacuated and resource extraction stops, causing major losses for corporations. The Colonial Republic’s government refuses to risk more human lives after antiwar protests, so scientists create a new army for intergalactic operations. The republican fleet and the “Delta” assault battalion—made up of cyber-guards, heavy machinery and robotic drones-transformers—are sent to Enigma.

Command the battle

Commanders with telepathic skills control the force from aboard the ARKS and are forbidden to leave them for their own safety. They can still take part in battles by operating combat avatars, which are unmanned combat robotic vehicles. If an avatar suffers critical damage, it is evacuated, quickly repaired and sent back into battle. If the aliens destroy all the ARKS, the Colonial Republic loses control of the planet.