Echelon
Echelon
Game
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Echelon: Wind Warriors
Developer MADia Entertainment
Echelon: Wind Warriors is a 2004 video game from Buka Entertainment. The game is a sequel to Echelon. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
44 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 19, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
59
Mixed
16 positive · 11 negative
95% range 41–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 16 | 11 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
24 of 37 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
62% recommend · 18 yes, 11 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 29 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (76 of 107 positive).
Players praise the game as a classic flight sim with a unique sci-fi setting and enjoyable gameplay. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note significant technical issues, especially getting the game to run on modern systems. [4][5][6] Some players feel the game has not aged well and is only recommended for those with nostalgic attachment. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME it is not recommended to buy this game with any windows versions XP and above. game is not optimalized for windows XP and above. game has buggs that will never be fixed. support doesnt speak english.
- [6]
Warning: Broken Game! This game has design/implementation defects that will render this unplayable for many gamers. The game doesn't launch at all, and while the developer expects you to go through a number of convoluted workarounds and downloading third party files (risky!), there's no guarantee any of those will work either, with numerous reports of failed efforts. The developer is fully aware the game is broken …
- [1]
I bought this because it's a classic that I spent a lot of time on when I was younger. It's a fun flight sim with a lot of missions to do. - Some people might not be able to run this game properly on modern machines, but that's fixable with a little bit of registry editing, setting the correct settings (Like choosing Hardware TnL in options app), and downloading some extra missing files (link in comments). - I …
- [3]
The modern gaming industry develops flight simulators with a new graphic component that pleases the eye of virtual pilots, they are delighted with the mechanics of aircraft control, somewhere there is, perhaps, an exciting plot ... But no flight simulator can compare with this masterpiece, in which all of the above was developed back in 2004. Despite all this, this game is absolutely unique, aircraft of completely …
- [16]
Not a perfect game, far from it, it's actually pretty bad, but it has it's upsides, it has some pretty fun parts, especially if you have some sort of nostalgic connection to it Last mission sucks though, most of it is spent waiting for some tanks to make their way from one side of a valley to the other to destroy some cannons while you just fly around in circles on auto pilot, and then when that's done after, I ♥♥♥♥ …
Summarised from 34 of the 46 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Echelon: Wind Warriors sits at 59% positive across 27 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Echelon received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot said "Echelon: Wind Warriors isn't a bad game, so much as a mediocre and totally unambitious one".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
44 of 44 · most liked firstI bought this because it's a classic that I spent a lot of time on when I was younger. It's a fun flight sim with a lot of missions to do. - Some people might not be able to run this game properly on modern machines, but that's fixable with a little bit of registry editing, setting the correct settings (Like choosing Hardware TnL in options app), and downloading some extra missing files (link in comments). - I highly recommend setting the control method to "E-mouse", with inverted Y-axis…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME it is not recommended to buy this game with any windows versions XP and above. game is not optimalized for windows XP and above. game has buggs that will never be fixed. support doesnt speak english.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There I want to tell a lot about this great game. Basically this is standalone addon for original Echelon game a futurstic action/VTOL-simulation set in same universe and period but from another character perspective. The game features decent flight model which makes you feel of flight and inertion, advanced damage model, a lot of detailed ground, naval and air units and buildings with their own damage models. There many types of aicrafts and weapons to choose. The game is unique by being…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Released two entries for the RPG Maker 2025 game jam! Project: Echelon, Story & character-driven sci-fi adventure w/fast-pased,turn-based battles, The Final Prayer,1st person dungeon crawler turn-based RPG w/focus on narrative & exploration! #indiedev #gamedev #rpgmaker
neutral · AI labelView post →Now live on YouTube: Formation youtu.be/yhOMzq5_wj0?... This video has been a goal of mine ever since Picard Season 3 originally aired, and with the release of the Echelon Class to game, I finally had everything I needed to make this a reality!!! Check the thread below for info on the video!
neutral · AI labelView post →It is as old as great. I enjoyed the gameplay many years ago, I enjoy it now. One of the most interesting features - the dialogs. By the way, it launched on Windows 7 64x without any problems
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game, and have spent the most 'gameplay' hours trying to get it to work. Finally the COMMUNITY helped me out guiding me through REGEDIT. No thanks to MADia Entertainment, who should be banned from STEAM for not living up to the expected CUSTOMER SUPPORT. So I would check the NOT INTERESTED BOX, and go find other nice games with the same theme.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An awesome classic. Shame gamespy is dead.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Also the problem of how to fit the bigger games onto a CD. Some solutions were so interesting. My first play of Skies of Arcadia was via the Echelon version, which is complete and on two CDs, just like the original. They compressed the game files and wrote a tool to decompress on the fly.
positive · AI labelView post →Project: Echelon, one of my entries for the GGG Rpg Maker 2025 game jam! A story/character-driven sci-fi RPG with fast-paced turn-based battles! Link for download in the replies! ^^ #RPGツクールMZ #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun thing to do in #GoodboyGalaxy #9: Visit the Echelon arcade and play Lilac Force to try and impress Video Game Sage (a tough challenge!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Secrets of Game Design 3: Hyper Echelon In this video I play Hyper Echelon for the second time and lightly discuss its game design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGqJ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Took me about 20 minutes to get the game working after trying the same fixes I did for the first game. The game takes a long time to open everytime you want to play... Screenshots doesn't work and the Steam Community doesn't work in game. Pretty sure this is a very old game, I don't really understand what i'm looking at and i'm pretty sure only people that have played the game before will enjoy it. I strongly do not recommend to buy this game if you haven't played it previously and even if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I beat Crownfall's Nest of Thorns Echelon 7 and got Imperia's "Pathetic" voice line! That was a tough game hahaha Can't wait to spam this in my pubs :D #dota2
neutral · AI labelView post →In its time this game was one of the funnest flight games around. Now it needs a patch to launch single player. Just Just leave your memories of this great game as it is, memories of the past.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best combat flight simulators, which, suprisingly, was greatly inspired by the MechWarrior series. After a bit of registry tweaking, runs without problems in FullHD on modern hardware and Win10. This game provides quite unique and enjoyable experience and I can't even recall something similar in the genre.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The modern gaming industry develops flight simulators with a new graphic component that pleases the eye of virtual pilots, they are delighted with the mechanics of aircraft control, somewhere there is, perhaps, an exciting plot ... But no flight simulator can compare with this masterpiece, in which all of the above was developed back in 2004. Despite all this, this game is absolutely unique, aircraft of completely different characteristics, from fighters to attack aircraft, interceptors and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love this game, haven't played it in ages till I saw it on steam some time ago, bought it and boy does it bring back memories. PITA to get to work, but thankfully many workarounds/guides on steam to get it going. Let's be honest it is and older game, can't expect it to work on new OS right of the bat. Controls take some getting used to, but give it time and you might fall in love with it. Campaign missions are sometimes a bit quirky, if you seem to be stuck, nothing to do, might have to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are having problems starting the game, follow the steps in the Discussion topic "Steps I've used to fix the English version" by RXDimA I can't comment on the game play, but needed to advertise the best fix for starting the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TFB Review: Springfield Armory Echelon 4.5F 9mm COA.
neutral · AI labelView post →after you watch chapter 10 of gfl2 on youtube because its not in the game yet then you can watch Escape from Cyborg on youtube which also is not in the game yet and you'll see them in the same room. after that you can do the Coordination Drill side mode "Echelon 11" to see them more
neutral · AI labelView post →Echelon: Wind Warriors Is the sequel to the old classic combat flight simulation Echelon and also in the Sci-Fi Setting. This Time the Earth fights back and confronts the Alien more forcefull. Again the Player gets a a variety of different fighter planes to choose from and different sorts of Weapons to equip onto them, with a few of the olds known from the previous Game. Like the previous Game it gives a lot of entertainment for those who love to fight alien fighter planes over huge lands in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have rather mixed feelings about it, the main pleasant emotions consist of memories when I played it once upon a time. This is a very old game, I would say that it is ancient. Now for people who see it for the first time, I think there is no point in buying it and trying to love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very good game and have a real nice feel to the flight and combat, better than I seen in many spacecombat games like Starconflict and Elite dangerous. EXCEPT one thing: It won´t start, I bought it on steam and installed it, I strongly recommend you get a " FREE " version of this game to see if it´s possible to run. Update: There are tips in the steam forum how to get it to work. It works then, but pain in the butt to configure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a masterpiece, but a very interesting dynamic game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →either Echelon (by Access Software) or Duke Nukem 1 by Apogee. Although the real "game" that got me (and my sis) into PCs, and why we begged our parents for one? Microsoft Paintbrush for Windows 3.1!
neutral · AI labelView post →Echelon! That was the first PC game I ever got
positive · AI labelView post →Another snippet of Skies of Echelon airship game for you tonight... lots of polish and gameplay going in now. #gamedev #gamedeveloper
neutral · AI labelView post →Much better that the first one. Highly recommended for all flight simulators fans!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy Thursday and as the week draws close we want to give a shout out to Echelon Game Design for their past support of the RPG Creators Relief Fund, INC! Echelon creates and publishes supplements and expansions for Pathfinder, available on DTRPG! Find more information at www.echelongamedesign.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Warning: Broken Game! This game has design/implementation defects that will render this unplayable for many gamers. The game doesn't launch at all, and while the developer expects you to go through a number of convoluted workarounds and downloading third party files (risky!), there's no guarantee any of those will work either, with numerous reports of failed efforts. The developer is fully aware the game is broken but outright REFUSES to fix it... but still wants to scam gamers into paying…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a perfect game, far from it, it's actually pretty bad, but it has it's upsides, it has some pretty fun parts, especially if you have some sort of nostalgic connection to it Last mission sucks though, most of it is spent waiting for some tanks to make their way from one side of a valley to the other to destroy some cannons while you just fly around in circles on auto pilot, and then when that's done after, I ♥♥♥♥ you not, 45 minutes (and you can't speed it up either, you're flying over a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#ffxivwrite2026 Day 3: Echelon complete! Takes place massively far in the future, beyond any current game canon. "Orn Khai craned his neck down and chuffed. It was their First Flight today." archiveofourown.org/works/918882...
neutral · AI labelView post →Requires workarounds and patches made by the community to launch, stay away from it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have zero hope for this FB exodus. The whole #CambridgeAnalytica is hardly #PRISM-level news to a world well aware of #Echelon, and response to that had hardly any effect.
neutral · AI labelView post →The hovercraft combat has some appeal, but this Steam release comes with homework. Widescreen needs registry tweaks, and too much of the modern-PC support is left to community fixes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had a great day at the range yesterday. It was good to get all of that angst out from that sorry ass Bears/Packers game. Yikes, what a lousy, embarrassing showing that was. Anyway...I started blastin...#2A #rangeday #springfieldarmory #echelon #armedequality
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep. Plus, it's a game everyone plays... Tempora, Optic Nerve, Edgehill, Echelon...
neutral · AI labelView post →My brother bought me this as a gift not long after the game came out and I never got around to playing it, so when I saw there was a Steam release, I grabbed it and guiltily gave it a go. Surprisingly good game, and I was sad not to have played it at the time. However, it's an old game and has not aged particularly well, so just beware that if you're after a space combat simulator this is not going to come up to modern standards.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →please god please update this for windows 10 id do anything at all to play it again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was fun the one time i played it, but its now abandonware and won't launch
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its not workin pls fix waste of money......
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: 6DOF - Flight & Space Pilot Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Broken. Opens a dos-like prompt with parameter incorrect error message then it closes and never launches.
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