Mash together XCOM, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones and Wargroove and you'd probably get something that looks like Pathway, a pixel art turn-based tactics game about pinching treasure from Nazis. Publisher Chucklefish—which developed Wargroove—has announced a release date, and it's sooner than I expected. It'll launch on April 11, which is in just four days.

It has five campaigns of varying difficulties, and each of them is partly procedurally-generated. Your aim is to take control of powerful artifacts across the deserts of North Africa before Nazi forces do, and as you move from point-to-point you'll encounter story events, of which there are more than 400. You'll have tough choices to make, loot to grab, and enemies to battle in turn-based combat.

That combat will see you crouch behind cover and make use of your squad's abilities. There are 16 characters to unlock, each with their own strengths, weaknesses and quirks: you'll have a melee expert, Brunhilda, and Jackson, a marksman with a rifle, for example. 

It's part-RPG, so you'll have lots of chances to level up your characters. When you fail, you'll carry progress over to your next run, so your squad will always be improving. 

If you want to find out more about it, Jody spoke to the devs at German studio Robotality last year.

Pathway's Steam page is here, and the GOG page is here.

Pathway looks very cool: think Indiana Jones as a turn-based RPG, with an art style heavily reminiscent of recent favorite Wargroove. Jody interviewed its creators last year and I've been keeping an eye out for it since – it definitely boasts some of the best 16-bit inspired pixel art I've seen in recent times.

Above is a newly released gameplay video, courtesy of publisher Chucklefish. It shows off one of five campaign adventures, concerning the pursuit of Nazis who are eager to get their hands on The Wrath of God. Of course, they mustn't. As you'll see, there's more to Pathway than  just tactical combat and exploration: dialogue choices and random story encounters will feature in the procedurally generated maps.

Pathway releases some time later in 2019. It's on Steam already, though.