Star Traders: 4X Empires

This game plays like many of the older TBS games, like Alpha Centauri, and its ilk. It has a vast tree of technology that progresses pretty intuitively, but the controls and gameplay itself is rather hard to master. Once you figure out the basics and get an understanding of how the game progresses and works, It becomes easier to work through the game. It essentially centers around colonizing planets that then...

24 found this helpful, 2015-02-22

UPDATE 2017: tooltips on tech tree now. Didn't check anything else. UPDATE 20 JULY 2015: Another game update. Still no tooltips on tech tree, no mouse on screen edge scrolling. I don't think they care about making the interface more PC-like at all. Either that or they are using some crossplatform framework which doesn't allow PC features so they -can't- make it palatable to pc users. UPDATE 19 JUNE 2015: I checked...

194 found this helpful, 2015-01-31

"We have Master of Orion at home-" Okay that joke doesn't actually work here as well as the others. While I love the Trese Brothers' games and have gone out of my way to buy all of them to support the team, this one I cannot so easily recommend. While I personally got my money's worth out of it, I can also stomach jank, and boy is this one JANK... Imagine, dear reader, playing a 4X game like Civilization, now,...

11 found this helpful, 2024-09-03

This game is really good. It is rich in strategy and nuance. However it definitely has some unusual mechanics. For some players it will be frustrating to see your own factions fight each other while you're facing a horrific Xeno threat. That's actually part of the lore. (That lore is better appreciated in their award-winning game "Star Traders: Frontiers" and to a lesser extent, their amazing title "Templar...

12 found this helpful, 2020-04-15

I REALLY wanted to like this game, but frankly, there are just way too many problems. This is a very simplified, streamlined 4X game. If you are a fan of stuff like the Civilization series or Stellaris, this game has nothing to offer for you. If you theoretically like the concept of a 4X game, but actually playing them feels overwhelming with the amount of things you have to manage, then this could be a nice...

8 found this helpful, 2025-01-18

It's not a bad game, but it has some serious problems. The interface is clunky, the awesome ship designer is knee capped by the fact that you have no idea what any of the numbers mean, the tutorial is one of the worst I've ever seen (it throws a lot of text at you, and if you accidentally misclick then you have to do the entire tutorial again to see what you missed), but the biggest problem is that your planetary...

10 found this helpful, 2022-02-19

There's so much to comment on that I don't even know where to start. Let's see... • The Game was clearly designed for tablets, with PCs only an afterthought. Changing the window size or attempting to run in fullscreen mode requires a restart of the entire program, and tooltips are missing from most screens. • No option for anti-aliasing. This makes the graphics look very choppy on all but the most zoomed in...

19 found this helpful, 2017-07-16