
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
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It's the 24th century and the colonization of space is not going well. Hyperspace opened the door to the stars, but habitable worlds are few and far in between, overpopulation is still rampant, and our civilization's appetite for resources has only increased. For over a hundred years, the incredibly rich Dust Zone sated this endless appetite, jointly controlled by the United Earth Nations and the Zone Mining Cooperative. But humanity’s fighting chance only lasted for a short hundred years.
Now, it has gone dark. Freighters stopped arriving with supply hauls and humanity is facing an unprecedented crisis. It's up to the commander of UEN's finest fleet, to deploy into the Dust Zone, investigate, and solve the supply chain crisis before it spirals out of control. It's time to demonstrate strategic aptitude in a turn-based management mode. Then, head to the front lines and channel your inner commander in intense, real-time space battles.

Command an entire space fleet and survive in the most hostile environment known to man. Secure strategic nodes, harvest the Dust Zone's resources, and expand the fleet to confront the threat to humanity's survival.
Customize each individual ship using a detailed designer. Upgrade every vessel with newly researched hulls, modules, and of course, weapons. Every upgrade matters, not just on the ships themselves.
Complete side missions to unlock additional fleet stations and strategic options. These can provide one-of-a-kind bonuses in battles, from extra build queues to support powers - potentially turning the tide of the battle at hand or even the entire war.

Take command of a custom fleet in intense 4x real-time tactical battles, maneuvering them in a fully 3D combat space.
Employ complex, tactical maneuvers to gain the upper hand and defeat superior foes through cunning and strategic brilliance.
Summon reinforcements and support powers from adjacent sectors to influence the direction of the battle.

Never give up and keep the fight going in the Sector Assault mode to generate a fully randomized starmap, side missions, and enemies, for fresh challenges each time.
Use the robust campaign editor and mod.io integration to create and easily share new campaigns with fellow players and craft personalized challenges!
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Languages: English*, German, Simplified Chinese, French*languages with full audio support
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Given that this game has come from a single developer, for what it is, its great. Has some good ideas and I wish games like Sins of a Solar Empire and Homeworld 3 had done something like them as well. Its genuinely a fun game to play. Had a few game breaking bugs, but it autosaves frequently, so loss of time and effort is minimal. It is also a little short in campaign time, but the essential skirmish mode is great for replayability and the ai is honestly a bit tough lol, which i quite like :) . I am looking forward to more from this developer in adding content and balancing some ships, more bits to add to the ships would be nice .. armour and prop mods would be a want to have I would love to see what the future plans for this are
Like a slightly modernised version of a 2000's space RTS. I found the campaign a bit difficult, partly because I'm not a very good player, but also because there isn't a lot of handholding to show you the most effective strategies, particularly on the 4X map. For example, if you're not maintaining a strong border fleet, and just chasing the "Missions", you will come undone. If you haven't got lots of historic saves, that could mean starting again from scratch, which is a bit frustrating. But then you still do need to complete the "Missions" to progress and to get some free tech unlocks and ships. Hard to find that balance. I haven't played the Sector Assault game mode yet, looking forward to giving that a go. For the price, especially during a sale, this game is well worth a punt. I hope a sequel will be made that fleshes the game out a bit and smooths off some of the rougher edges!
Definitely feels like a passion game inspired by the Homeworld series! Just like the homeworld series, ships can move vertically which does make me feel old considering the age of the Homeworld series lol - old but gold I must say. The variety does not rival the homeworld series but the campaign scenario certainly was interesting enough for my tastes, so do give this title a chance!
Super bon jeu ! Les contrôles sont agréables, l'IA qui rush pas et qui vous laisse le temps de vous installer... Les batailles sont plutôt belles et graphiquement le jeu tient la route. Dans les souhaits : - Plus de race ! J'aime beaucoup les design des vaisseaux Vasari de Sin of a solar Empire 2, une race alien avec ce design serait sympa :) - Un petit re-design de l'interface, certaines parties sont on va dire "brouillones" Donc pour conclure : Si tu aimes Sin of a Solar Empire 2, avec en plus un coté RTS ala HomeWorld => Ce jeu est fait pour toi :) Conseil : Faite le tuto... çà permet de maitriser l'interface...
Grading on a curve. One guy made it so it is exceptional. It has some Rough parts but has been fun and worth the price If you like original Homeworld you will like this.
Suite à la dernière mise à jour, il est impossible de jouer à Dust Fleet. Il semble que ce soit lié au format supérieur à la résolution de mon portable.
X4战略思维和RTS战术布置结合的游戏,思路不错,但内容还是太少了,有可拓展空间,还需要慢慢完善。
As others have already said it is similar to Homeworld in combat gameplay having some of the best features such as full 3d movement and enemy ship capture but also has things Homeworld did not such as ship customizeation allowing you to change the weapons on ships so you can have specific ships that specialize in anything from long range to anti-fighter. The game is also partly open world allowing you to choose when to do story missions. Honestly I loved the game and hope we see a sequel or at least see more devs follow a similar path since we don't see games of this style and quality often enough.
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Its fun, some of the models are inspired by other SciFi show's and IP, but not rip offs. The game play is similar, but a departure from other 4X and RTS games. Got it on sale, more than worth the value for the money on sale, but a decent game at full price I'd wager. Developer is friendly, and still working to improve it. If you like space ships, 4x and RTS, give it a go.
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