Sid Meier’s Starships

[Crzwaco]

Take command of a fleet of powerful starships in this adventure-driven strategy game from legendary designer Sid Meier. Travel to new worlds, completing missions to help save and protect the planets and their people from dangerous Space Pirates, to powerful Marauders and other hostile factions. Build a planetary federation as you strengthen your fleet and secure your homeworld as you attempt to preserve intergalactic peace and your vision of humanity. Set in the universe of Civilization: Beyond Earth after the age of the Seeding, Sid Meier’s Starships offers sci-fi/strategy fans a full stand-alone game experience that also features cross-connectivity with Beyond Earth, expanding the depth of both games. See if you have what it takes to rule the universe!

Anyone going to get this want to know if its going to be like Sid Meiers golf qaulity.

 

[Apollo]

The reviews are not looking good so far. Think i'm gonna skip for until a sale.

 

[HavocXphere]

The seeding concept sounds suspiciously like the scattering from the dune universe.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Sorry to say but it does not look very promising.

Its basically a 4X game using the Civ engine. Sadly that means competing against the likes of say Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion that did a waaaay better job at the genre.

 

[Slowdive]

The games blurb states:
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
As I picked this up a few days back, let me break that down.

Ship building.
ships are standard chassis as you add to their predetermined fields, armor, lasers etc they get different titles. So its really not building at all harvest enough energy, upgrade lasers to 8 its now a destroyer.

Travel around a random galaxy map, where different planets will offer some kind of generic mission. Escort, kill pirates, escape a fleet, kill a target. There is plenty of supposed variety but it always plays out so generically.
Take over a planet, click on an upgrade, get some extra resources.....its extremely cookie cutter for exploration.

Negotiate, not that I have noticed, standard diplomacy options that pale in comparison to early Civ

Actual combat its some what enjoyable in small doses, the strategy is simple enough, turn based in get in range, shoot someone and dont get shot. Torpedoes wizz around the screen forcing you to move or pushing enemies into your laser range and I dont hate it. However its repetitive and simple.

I could go on longer about how average the entire experience is, its not awful, grab it for $2 on sale sometime though. As it feels like a tablet game and plays like one. I enjoy it on coffee break scale and the one full campaign I did complete was not awfully challenging.

 

[CyberDemon]

tablet game and plays like one

That seems to be the main complaint on Steam.
I'm still to buy Beyond Earth. I've enjoyed the Demo but that was the first Civ game that I played.

 

[Crzwaco]

The games blurb states:
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
As I picked this up a few days back, let me break that down.

Ship building.
ships are standard chassis as you add to their predetermined fields, armor, lasers etc they get different titles. So its really not building at all harvest enough energy, upgrade lasers to 8 its now a destroyer.

Travel around a random galaxy map, where different planets will offer some kind of generic mission. Escort, kill pirates, escape a fleet, kill a target. There is plenty of supposed variety but it always plays out so generically.
Take over a planet, click on an upgrade, get some extra resources.....its extremely cookie cutter for exploration.

Negotiate, not that I have noticed, standard diplomacy options that pale in comparison to early Civ

Actual combat its some what enjoyable in small doses, the strategy is simple enough, turn based in get in range, shoot someone and dont get shot. Torpedoes wizz around the screen forcing you to move or pushing enemies into your laser range and I dont hate it. However its repetitive and simple.

I could go on longer about how average the entire experience is, its not awful, grab it for $2 on sale sometime though. As it feels like a tablet game and plays like one. I enjoy it on coffee break scale and the one full campaign I did complete was not awfully challenging.

Thanks for the awesome breakdown on the game. Will skip it.