Sid Meier's Starships 12+
2K
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- $14.99
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Description
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!
• Tactical Space Combat: Encounter unique tactical challenges in every mission, with dynamically generated maps, victory conditions, and foes.
• Fully Customizable Starships: Create an armada that fits your tactical plan with modular spaceship design.
• Diplomacy, Strategy, and Exploration: Expand the influence of your Federation and gain the trust of the citizens of new planets. Use the unique abilities of the each planet to enhance your fleet and Federation, and keep your opponents in check. Build improvements on worlds to increase the capabilities and resources of your Federation.
• A Galaxy Of Adventure: Explore the galaxy as you lead your fleet to distant worlds and complete missions to help the citizens of these planets. Fight pirates, protect colony ships, destroy rogue AI, and more.
• Multiple Paths To Victory: Will you win by conquering the greatest threat to the galaxy? Or will you unite a plurality of worlds in your Federation? Perhaps you will lead your people to push the frontiers of science. Each choice you make carries consequences on your path to victory.
What’s New
Version 1.4
AI’s will play by player chosen constrained victory rules.
Players will now start with one ship on impossible difficulty.
Megabot strength has been increased.
Wonder Victory now requires 9 wonders.
AI will now attempt more missions per turn on Impossible difficulty .
AI will now use stealth more often.
The Negotiate button on the bridge view is now named “Negotiate”.
Fixed the damage meter in the Fleet Overview when ship need repair.
The How to Play screen now states that a population victory is but one way to win the game.
And other minor bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Good, but constant crashes :(
The game is good and constantly enjoyable. Unfortunately it constantly crashes all the time. The longest play I’ve had without a crash was about an hour and the shortest time before crash is during the opening clip before the menu. Although the game has a great autosave feature thats stops this being a major issue, this is still extremely frustrating! After all, you want to be able to enjoy the game without constant interruption.
It also seems to have a bug with not registering specified winning conditions.
If it weren’t for the crashes, the price would be quite reasonable.
Nice
It’s a good game. May be the same as tablets - but that’s not necessarily a problem. I like the extra control in combat from a pointer instead of touching the screen.
The depth of the game is enough to keep things interesting, however it does get a bit limited after a while. I’ve played about 20 hours.
It’s got enough in there to make me think about what I’m doing, but not enough to bog the game down. So it’s enjoyable.
The price point seems about right for what you get.
Excellent, Fun, Enjoying it Very Much
It's a good game on any platform. Waaaay back I used to play a game called Pax Imperia, and this is more than a worthy successor for modern macs.
There is more than enough complexity to keep you busy without needing a complex preference dialog (a really well made game frankly shouldn't need one anyway).
Graphics are great, and the gameplay is comfortable for me, the battle system suits a thinking rather than reaction time style of play that I really like.
The tech tree is looking well balanced, and I haven't had time yet to see how the economics system works on larger scale, but it looks good so far.
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Information
- Seller
- 2K, INC.
- Size
- 627 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.9 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2015 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.