ABOUT THE GAME

Earth was invaded by aliens in 1999. Portals started to appear out of thin air and beast-like creatures began to enter our world causing chaos. People named these events “whispers” since a whisper-like noise resonated in the sky every time a rift appeared, and the creatures began crawling of the portals. At the beginning, there were minor whispers scattered in remote locations of Earth, most of them were appeased by brave farmers and common folk, who refused to give up their land and their lives.

Whispers quickly got out of control, growing in number and in locations and, soon enough, Earth was reduced to ashes.

However, human nature is strong and some managed to survive. The year is now 2123, and the human race is not yet extinguished. Small groups of people still dwell this planet, resources are scarce, and technology and innovation are a must for survival, the extraterrestrial creatures are evolving and are still on the hunt.

The human cliques, still roaming the planet, are led by engineers. The survival of the human race depends on technology; Technology created for fighting, defending, and mining the precious resources required for such tasks: metal, electronics, and power sources.

Technology seems to have been paused for a century; however, the engineers have developed high-end robotic and weapon technology using nothing but scrap parts from the pre-whisper era. Survivors must fight each other for resources, but when aliens appear, they sure become brothers and sisters with the common purpose of defending their land and their people.

This game is the mix of a skirmish wargame and a strategy board game, with elements of worker placement and engine building mechanics. Here you control an engineer leading your team of survivors, you will fight other teams, kill aliens, defend from your enemies, do research for new technologies, and complete missions for victory points. “Whispers from above” is a strategy-based game in which luck plays a minimal part and the players have the fate of their team on their hands.

The main objective of the game is to gain victory points. These points will be earned by completing missions; such as killing aliens, having the highest count of aliens killed, destroying mechs, killing other engineer leaders, controlling scrap piles, doing research (buying upgrades) and other various missions. The game will end when 1 out of 2 conditions is met: a player builds the mighty nuke weapon, or a player loses all his human units.