Etheria: Restart

Etheria: Restart is a popular role-playing game where players are placed in a future era where human consciousness exists in a virtual world. Facing a mysterious genesis virus, players must become hyperlinkers, fighting alongside girls to form suitable teams, battling various monsters, and gradually uncovering the truth behind the virus. The game offers players a wealth of daily quests, arenas, and events; simply participating in these activities will earn players rich rewards to develop and summon their favorite characters, thus building a stronger team. Furthermore, the girls have attractive skins waiting to be unlocked, giving them even more charming appearances and enhancing the player's overall gaming experience.

Features:

Immersive Neo-Fantasy Setting: Explore Etheria, a city designed with breathtaking detail. From shimmering skyscrapers to intricate urban campuses, every corner of this open-world environment hides secrets waiting to be discovered.

The Power of Animus: You are never alone in your fight. Coordinate with the Animus—mystical beings with god-like powers and mythical origins. Each Animus features unique skills and backstories, allowing for endless strategic combinations in your party.

High-Stakes Strategic Combat: Engage in a sophisticated battle system that requires both quick reflexes and tactical planning. Master the synergy between your Hyper-linker abilities and your Animus allies to overcome formidable foes.

Unravel a Dark Mystery: While the surface of Etheria is bright and vibrant, a dark force lurks within. Navigate through various stages to find the origin of the virus and decode the mysteries of this digital reality.

Stunning Visuals and Design: Experience a Japanese-inspired fantasy world brought to life with vivid colors, fluid animations, and a cinematic soundtrack that perfectly captures the urban-fantasy atmosphere.

Strategies:

Once you’ve completed your initial summons, the real game begins. Here’s the loop:

Build Your Team: Focus on your chosen carry (Tiamat, Lilith, etc.) and level up Lian.

Gear Basics: Don’t over-invest! Only +5 or +6 modules early on. This gear will be replaced soon.

Farm Terramaton Early Stages: For HP-based sets like Wellspring (great on Tiamat).

Shell System: Equip your heroes with Shells early, even if they’re not perfect. Prioritize HP Shells for tanks/healers and Attack Shells for DPS.

Empowering: You’ll collect materials to empower characters. Use them wisely—don’t over-spend on units you’ll replace.

Charter Missions: These will guide you through your progression and offer tons of rewards. Always be doing something related to your charter!

Player Comments:

Yeah it's a port of a mobile game and it's gacha/rng. Sure you've heard all the cons in other reviews and discussion posts. But it's also a pretty decent time fillers if you're looking for a great one to fill out your roster. Great animations, effects, sound design, and it also has puzzles/linear traversal (loot hide 'n seek) if you're into that. There's also social aspects like world chat and a union (with a boss grind) as well and a cash shop if you absolutely want to indulge.

You'll discover hidden corners of the city, uncover funny secrets and be amazed at the blend of technology and human interaction. It's a perfect place to take a break from reality and immerse yourself in the world of meeting influential friends and exploring digital space. Each event is a celebration with a visual aesthetic that feels like a box of delicious sweets.

Game is really cool, and gets a huge plus plus for being playable on Linux from launch, unlike it's HoYo comparison, Star Rail, that doesn't work at all. Great art, cool gameplay loop, scifi setting is top notch, but the game is VERY stingy. As in, you will get to level 12 and then you'll be grinding yourself nonstop.My one gripe is that you absolutely should not be grinding yourself to death before level 30 at the very least. I'm missing core gameplay components because I have to run challenges nonstop to level up. This could be mitigated by doing what other gachas do and allowing an instant "auto" completion once you've done it manually once.But as of right now, it's a 7/10. Great concept, has potential, but the grind is in the wrong place.

I played a good bit during the Beta in I believe June 2025, was good. So far I've encountered nothing but issues with the steam version and I know not if it's a game issue or a Linux issue, but it's rated Platinum on ProtonDB so I can't imagine it being a Linux issue.Firstly, had issues with logging in on the main menu screen. Google play login wouldn't open in the browser for a while and Email login would freeze any attempt to use mouse clicking inputs. Eventually got google play login to work, navigated to a newer server and as I logged onto the server, just a black screen with music playing. Eventually got tired of staring at it and tried to relaunch the game.Steam has trouble force closing the game, the Play/Stop button is stuck on Stopping... and trying to force close steam to reset it also takes forever to do for whatever reason. It's a buggy mess. I'll try running the standalone launcher, hopefully I get better luck with that and if that doesn't work I'll just have to stick with the mobile version.

FAQs:

How long does it take to finish the dailies?

Around 20 minutes or so for the dailies themselves, but it will take you longer to use up all the stamina you get daily.

How does the stamina work in this game?

You start with 100 stamina cap and for every account level you achieve you receive +1 to the cap. So with the max account being 100, it sets the stamina cap at 200. Still, if you purchase the Monthly Card (costs $5), you will get +20 to the current cap.As for the stamina recharge rate - it's 1 stamina point every 5 minutes.

Is the game free to play friendly or pay to win?

Definitely free to play friendly. Reasons:You can clear all endgame PVE content using SR characters and free SSR characters,Banners don't have the dreaded 50/50 system,Character dupes aren't that impactful (they only give some additional raw stats - no new skills or effects).

What are the rates?

The chance to pull the highest rarity (SSR) characters is set to 1% for the majority of the banners - further split into 0.75% for Red/Green/Blue characters and 0.25% for Light/Dark characters - the elements have different names here, but they mean the same thing.

What's the endgame?

For PVE content, the endgame is optimizing your teams, you so can farm Modules and Shells (and other stuff) as quickly and efficiently as possible. There are also Union Bosses that allows guilds to compete against each other who can deal the most damage.

For PVP content, Real Time Arena is the 'endgame', but you also have AI battles available and even a special 'mini-tournament' mode that uses the RTA ruleset and picks 8 players to compete against each other - it's basically a simulated E-Sport mode that everyone can try.

Summary:

Step into the Arena, where non-stop duels rage day and night! Engage in exhilarating PvP battles amid roaring crowds, showcase your unique strategies to fellow Hyperlinkers, and experience the pure thrill of tactical competition as you pursue your combat dreams!