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Athena Crisis
Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse. Embark on a challenging single-player quest or dive into the thrill of ranked or casual multiplayer modes to become the best Athena Crisis player!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Amazing game. Feels like a modern advance wars. The option for mobile and async play takes things to a new level.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Very fun advance wars inspired game with addicting gameplay, but I have a few issues with it. First off the soundtrack in game (except the main menu theme which i feel is very boring and uninspired) is great but there's only a few songs per biome, the main menu really sucks…”
— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs played“Athena Crisis - Turn Based Strategy, is a spiritual successor to Advance Wars. I really enjoyed this game at first. It has some similar gameplay mechanics and adds in way more units. But also some changes that makes the game a lot more challenging compared to Advance Wars games…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2025-10 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
September Update
Excited to announce another big round of fixes for Athena Crisis as well as an upcoming content expansion that is now officially being worked on! We fixed a number of issues with campaign objectives,
Legendary Difficulty + Skip Actions
We have another large update for everyone to enjoy: New: Legendary Difficulty (Experimental): A new AI, PersephoneBeta , was added that significantly improves upon DionysusAlpha, the AI you played aga
New Features + 60 Fixes
In the past week we fixed over 60 bugs and added various new features to improve Athena Crisis and make it more stable and more enjoyable for everyone! We'll add more features to make Athena Crisis ev
3 new Curated Campaigns + New Units!
The community created tons of new high-quality playable content to keep you busy this summer: Athena Crisis has 3 new curated campaigns , featuring a whopping 83 exciting new maps to explore – from pu
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Strategy · Pixel Graphics · Tactical · Sci-fi · PvE · PvP · Retro · 2D · Top-Down · Colorful · Tactical RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Full controller support |
| Languages | English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish - Spain, Ukrainian, Italian, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | https://athenacrisis.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 10 Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 500 MB available space