The Turn Based Lovers reviewed 1971 Project Helios - a turn based strategy game with RPG elements:

1971 PROJECT HELIOS – Review

Introduction

1971 Project Helios, developed by the Spanish team Reco Technology, is a strategy turn-based game with RPG elements. You are in 1971, in a planet Earth affected by a permanent winter after an important cataclysm, where the population is low and it´s clung to the Fulgor, a new energetic resource, to survive. The last hope resides in the scientific Margaret Blythe, who has developed the Project Helios, a project which makes possible the Earth´s recovery. However, she was kidnapped by people with different future plans, which will lead her to being rescued by an alliance of 2 groups, a total of 8 characters, each one which different motives but united by the needed of rescue Dr. Blythe.

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OVERALL:

1971 Project Helios is an interesting turn-based strategy game with some nice RPG elements based in the eternal winter postapocaliptic escenario. The combat system is based in the classical strategy grid, with some fresh tweaks, like the Fulgor use, but some points like the flat characters, the graphics, of the absence of some options in the camera, make other games better options within the genre, but you can give it a try, you will probably enjoy it.

Score: 7.5/10

Pushsquare has reviewed 1971 Project Helios:

Mini Review: 1971 Project Helios - A Tactical Title with an Interesting World

Don't get frostbite

A turn-based strategy game that takes a few pages out of XCOM’s book, 1971 Project Helios is a pretty solid excursion if you’re looking for a few hours of distraction. Presenting a post-apocalyptic world coated in ice and snow, you guide a collection of interesting characters through hordes of enemies to rescue a scientist who may be the key to mankind’s future.

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While the gameplay is solid, we came away more impressed with the art direction and sound design than expected. The lightly stylised, cel-shaded look works for 1971, with the organic environments looking especially nice. The sheer variety of locations is impressive, too, including an oil rig, airbase, canyon, and nomadic village. Meanwhile, the exploration music is absolutely beautiful, though the combat soundtrack gets a bit repetitive.

Score: 7/10

1971 Project Helios is due to release on Steam today.

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1971 Project Helios is a turn-based strategy game which combines modern warfare military tactics and close combat. Firearms and vehicles are scarce, conflicts and hostilities have no end, and the terrible freezing cold annihilates friends and foes in its path.

Eight characters have to join forces for a common cause: find an important scientist kidnapped by a massive stratocracy. Along their way they will have to avoid raider attacks, investigate military headquarters, and infiltrate into the territory of a dangerous anti-technological religious sect.

FEATURES

• Tactical Combat Fight against three different factions, each one with its unique units, strategy and advantages. Soldiers, snipers, slippery bandits, knights immune to cold… Study your enemies, plan out every move and adapt to all confrontations!
• Exploration Travel through various locations, from military enclaves to medieval dungeons. There you can search for fulgor, new equipment for your characters, and pieces of information of the world you are in and the factions you face.
• Skill Trees As you find equipment compatible with each character, you can unlock and upgrade new skills, and combine them to make the perfect builds for your strategy.
• Resource Management Use all the fulgor you can find to defreeze your HP, decrease the cooldowns, and reanimate your fallen units.

STORY

The campaign sets in a frozen world, in which eight people – each one with its own problems and interests – join in a sort of temporary alliance, to find one particular person: Dr Margaret Blythe. On the trail of her whereabouts, they will travel and fight shoulder to shoulder, and they inevitably get to know the others. Depending on some strategic and personal decisions, you will guide this characters right to one of three possible endings.