Last Train Home is an RTS game based in World War I times, developed by Ashborne Games and published by THQ Nordic. The game has an interesting story and sticks to classic RTS gameplay that translates pretty well. Let’s see how well.

Gameplay

Last Train Home brings plenty of familar war time RTS familiarity but adds just a little spice. The whole game focuses on soldiers that are on their way home from war that are just getting caught in the bad times that don’t seem to stop. With a really gritty story that makes you actually care for your squadron, the game makes you mourne your fallen a little bit.

In most RTS games you train up a bunch of soldiers send them into battle, they die, you train more. In Last Train Home you start with a really small squad and slowly gain more over time. The more in your squad the better your battles are going to go, and the smoother you train is going to run. You need to pay attention to the soldiers you have on which squads too because certain soldiers bring certain perks that will benefit you depending on the task at hand. It is really deep and it gives every single soldier meaning, even if it’s as simple as being the rat exterminator on the train.

As far as battle goes this is where the classic RTS gameplay comes in. You select your soldiers you click them around and you single out soldiers to use their specific abilities. Scout characters can do some recon and spot ahead to see if there are some enemies waiting. Machinegunners can bunker down and throw heavy fire down range to keep enemies at bay. Then Medics do exactly what you would think a medic does. Build your combat squads carefully so you don’t get caught up a creek without a paddle.

Graphics and Sound

Honestly for an over-head RTS game, the graphics are pretty good. I think that the map when you are looking through the train has some pretty impressive graphics that aren’t expected. They aren’t a 4k spectale but I do like the character desings with their own unique pictures and how everything looks like it’s on a note paper.

Where the game really really shines is in the voice acting. I left it on the Russian speaking voice actors, and all I can say is wow. Just wow. These guys (and girls) all really gave it their all. The grit and the emotion pulls through their voice whether I understand it or not, I could tell the feeling coming from their voice.

Feedback

SKIP! If I had feedback I’d give it, but anything I might have a complain about could be fixed by raising or lowering the difficulty.

Verdict

Last Train Home is a classic war time RTS game with some new and exciting mechnics. All of that plus a story that you want to pay attention to, yes I recommend this game. I recommend it in an instant, especially with a lower price than most of the copy-paste games you’re going to get now.

Last Train Home is available now for PC via Steam.