Enter a Battle Arena mode for quick-fix battles against cunning AI opponents.Build your own ships in the custom ship design mode and take them into real-time battles featuring stunning visuals and sound effects.Find even more technologies through in-game events and galactic exploration. Research hundreds of technologies, including technologies that are unique to your race.Populate the universe and colonize planets, moons, asteroid belts, gas giants, and more!.Hire unique heroes to govern your worlds or to command your mighty fleets in battle.Build a space empire turn by turn in an immersive, living galaxy filled with 9 alien races, pirate factions, galactic lore and mystery.Turn-based 4x strategy, featuring real-time tactical space combat and turn-based ground combat.Discover the extensive lore of the StarDrive universe by encountering many dozens of anomalies, heroes, and galactic mysteries that will ensure no two games will ever play the same. Research new technologies and design powerful warships to defend your claims. Conduct diplomacy and espionage, make alien friends that will deliver thriving trade treaties – or enemies that will seek to exterminate you at all costs. Exploit planets, navigate asteroid belts and overcome deep space dangers while handling interspecies relations to gain the upper hand. As the galactic ruler of your race you will lead your people into a procedurally-generated galaxy, exploring and expanding your space empire to greatness. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles. It’s not quite the game you are looking for.StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. Wanted the sequel to Stardrive 1 with better graphics. Need a spiritual successor to Master of Orion 2 in your life.
RatingĪ good game, which conversely can feel like a case of two steps forward and one step back. Until then, it’s a matter of waiting and seeing. It’s definitely a diamond in the rough, but it’s a big diamond, so once the polishing and cutting is done, perhaps it will shine like it’s supposed to. So, is Stardrive 2 worth getting? Personally, I love it, but like all games, there are flaws that we all have to live with. I’m hoping that once this initial round of technical support is completed, the game can be expanded upon in some areas, especially the size of galaxies. That’s not really the case, although the difficulty levels were adjusted somewhat in postlaunch patches. On launch, there were some concerns that the game was too hard, and that the AI was somehow exploiting loopholes or cheats. You could pick the Creative racial trait, but it costs fourteen points, which is ridiculously restrictive on any other bonuses you could pick up. On the other hand, you’ll also have to pick a technology from each tier as you move up, without any ability to gain the technologies you missed out on, much like Master of Orion. The technology tree, which was essentially a shrub in the original, is far longer and more expansive now. While I understand this system may have been implemented because of the way freighters now work, I can’t help but think that the original system was better. In Stardrive, you could finely control how many of a planet’s citizens were farming, producing or researching, using sliders.
Nonetheless, this game is made by one person, which means that little touches can easily be thrown out in place of things that will actually make a difference to the gameplay.Īnother, more deleterious change to the gameplay, which mimics MOO2, but is unrealistic, is that you can only move one unit of population at a time for any one job. There are a few little touches that I miss from the first game though, like how each planet orbited its parent star. The graphics are also much better than what you got from the first title, and the interface is more intuitive as well.
Still, the turn based overview on the main map is definitely an improvement, because it gives you a much better feel for the grand strategy required to play this game. Stardrive 2 is now a fully turn based strategy game on the main map, with individually loaded fleet battles, which are still restricted to a 2D plane. Stardrive 2 is its successor, but in more ways than one, it’s also the successor to the old dame itself, Master of Orion 2 that we’ve all been waiting for.
Made by Zerosum Games, a one man band, it was certainly good, but flawed. Stardrive is one of those games that satisfied the desire to take over a (fake, electronic) galaxy. More poetic samurai space bears? Hell frickin’ yeah!
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