Darkwind: War on Wheels
Battle for survival and supremacy in a gritty post-apocalyptic world of vehicular combat where strategy and tactics determines who wins. Darkwind is a simultaneous turn-based, physics-based game. It is often…
Darkwind: War on Wheels is an indie developed by Psychic Software, released 5 July 2014 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.
What Darkwind: War on Wheels is
Darkwind: War on Wheels is an indie game developed by Psychic Software and released in 2014. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battle for survival and supremacy in a gritty post-apocalyptic world of vehicular combat where strategy and tactics determines who wins. Darkwind is a simultaneous turn-based, physics-based game. It is often described as "X-Com meets Mad Max" or "Car Wars Online".
How it plays
Its themes are action. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.
How it was received
Darkwind: War on Wheels holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM and OpenGL compatible. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Darkwind: War on Wheels launched on 5 July 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Divinity: Original Sin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin.
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