Achron, time shifting RTS (achrongame.com)

Wow, did this game just come out? I remember it being developed years and years ago!

I had an idea for a similar game in the late 90's but I never bothered with it (thanks to Unreal Tournament consuming a big chunk of my time)

I'm glad someone else came up with the same thing as the idea certainly had some merit. I will be buying this and playing it when I get some time :)

The idea is nice, the "pathfinding" is broken enough for the game to be unplayable. Seriously, they just go directly towards their goal and get stuck everywhere.

I was going to buy it, but it still seems to be not available for Linux. Also, why isn't this available through Steam?

I bought it, but the DMG doesn't want to mount.

file(1) reckons it's just bzip2 data so I'm unpacking it and gunna poke around.

The Flash game Chronotron [1] is also based around time travel and is worth a quick play.

[1] http://www.miniclip.com/games/chronotron/en/

Well, skimming that title makes me double-take.

I misread it as Archon and got excited it was a updated version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(computer_game)

The great thing is that the time-altering mechanics actually work really well and they even managed to make a user-friendly UI for what is arguably a rather complicated concept.

However, the actual RTS part is woefully mediocre and has problems such as bad unit AI and bad path-finding. At least this was my impression of v1.0. I guess I should take another look one of these days and see if the numerous patches have improved things.