Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire

"Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire is a tactical turn-based RPG, set on a world fallen into a medieval dark age after the collapse of a spacefaring civilization. You must guide Tahira, the 20-year-old…

58 31 August 2016

What Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire is

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire is an adventure game developed by Whale Hammer Games and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"Once, it is said, humanity roamed the stars with impunity. That time is long past. On what was once a partially terraformed outpost world, the descendants of the long-dead colony struggle to eke out an existence on a planet that is growing ever more inhospitable. You are Princess Tahira of Avestan, a small kingdom to the west of humanity’s last great city, Babylon. The death of your brother has left you as the sole, unwilling heir to the Throne. After your anxiety over this burden sparked an argument with your father, you left Avestan to explore the lands that lie to the south. A year later, a message arrives warning of a vast army intent on returning to the stars, crushing all who stand…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire launched on 31 August 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

Official trailer