Five Achievement Ideas for Overthrown
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To some players, Early Access feels like a dirty phrase that shouldn’t exist. While it’s true that some games never quite reach their full potential whilst in early access or after release, you can find some hidden gems mixed in among them.
Overthrown is one of those games. I haven’t seen nearly enough coverage of this game. It has a great spin on the whole city builder and survival genre. Honestly, I am typically not a person who plays either of those genres. As soon as I saw Overthrown and its unique mechanics, I was all over it. The movement, the ability to throw nearly anything and then sprint into a group of enemies swinging a massive sword, spoke to me.
Overthrown is currently an early access game that, at the time of writing, has already received two updates for fixes and, in January, already has a massive update on the way that brings things like blast powder kegs to the game. No achievements are up for grabs in its current state, but that hasn’t stopped me from wondering what that list will look like whenever the game fully supports them. Here are a few I came up with that I hope to make the cut in some form.
Throwing another player
Overthrown grants players the ability to throw resources for various reasons. Need some wood? Grab a twenty-foot tree and toss it at a saw. Don’t like a building, throw it at the sun! In my opinion, the best thing is to sneak up on a friend and grab them while they are on a menu or trying to build something and throw them off a cliff. The chaos it can cause is always worth a laugh, and it makes sense for it to be an achievement.
It also makes sense for the developers to take it a step further and include throwing a friend, who is holding a friend, who is holding a building. Yes, the game already allows for that, and it is as fun as it sounds.
Killing an NPC that defected to Outlaws
One of the more surprisingly enjoyable mechanics in Overthrown is the whole city management aspect. You have to keep the people in the town happy. Are taxes too high and food too scarce? They’re going to bail. When they do, the roving gangs of Outlaws are more than happy to snatch them up.
It makes their future attacks on your camp more interesting to see the people you once called your loyal subject running back in to happily attack and steal from people who they once called friends. It makes defeating an incoming Outlaw who has a name feel a little almost rewarding. Take that Outlaw Natalyia. Next time just shut up and get back to work in the mines!
Jump slashing into a group of five or more enemies
As someone who adores the movement of games like Apex Legends, it is so nice to see fluid movement in places you don’t expect it. You can run incredibly fast in Overthrown, literally so fast you can run on water. This can be combined with attacks that look fantastic.
One of my favorite moments from the original demo of Overthrown was sprinting into a massive Outlaw raid that was coming at my base. I had the largest sword you can currently have in the game. As I sprinted in, I attacked and saw my character make this superb jump spin attack that sent multiple enemies flying if it didn’t outright kill them. It was such a simple and well-done moment that it makes sense to have it as an achievement.
Trick Shot: Jump off a wall and kill an Outlaw with a gun while air-born
Another of my favorite movement techniques in Apex Legends is the ability to jump at a wall, push off of it with your momentum, and use that to outplay your opponents. It makes you feel like a badass to get the upper hand in a fight. While it doesn’t quite work the same way in Overthrown as in Apex, based on the roadmap for updates, it does look like a possibility.
Overthrown lets you jump at walls and push off them to varying degrees of success. This is often used to get to higher locations on mountains and harder-to-climb terrain. However, the skill tree in the game mentions that gunpowder will eventually be unlocked in a future update. You can currently set up sniper watch towers to defend the town. So, it is likely that players will have access to some form of firearm in the future.
I would love to see a game that doesn’t take itself super seriously, like Overthrown have an achievement for jumping off a wall and, while in the air, kill an Outlaw or even just the pigs you kill for meat. The mental image I have of this princess flying through the air, absolutely slugging someone with a rifle bullet, feels right up Overthrown’s alley.
Han Would Be Proud - Drift around the entirety of City Hall
I mentioned earlier that Overthrown has fantastic movement for a game that, on the surface wouldn’t have it. One of the mechanics allowing such fluidity is the ability to slide or drift around corners and objects. I laughed hysterically the first time I started sliding around buildings in Overthrown. I did donuts around City Hall for several moments, having an absolute riot of a time. Simple stuff like this makes Overthrown such a unique experience that I hope more people give it a chance.
Overthrown is out NOW in Early Access on both Steam and on Xbox Games Pass. I really hope people out there see this and go buy it on Steam to support it. It has received two updates on there since I bought it fixing a few of the bigger issues the game had. I am really looking forward to its first major update in January.
Let me know down below if you have played Overthrown and what your thoughts are on it. (Or, let me know if this is the first you are hearing about it because I genuinely think this game deserves way more attention than it is currently getting.)