ENDLESS Space™ 2

I'd like to recommend the game. It's been fun in the past. But now I can't get it to even start. I noticed in the discussions that lots of other people can't get the game to start. I've tried re-installing the software. Nothing. Pretty bad for a game that was released 8 years ago. I found this fix in a discussion and it worked for me: Copy this cmd /c "set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000 && %command%" Go to library and right click the game Choose properties at the bottom of the box that appears under launch options paste that in there. The problem appears to be related to Windows 11. Anyway, I'm still bothered that the game developers didn't come up with the fix so I'll keep the thumbs down rating.

Game is frustrating. While the art and lore is great, I find the base mechanics to be poor. Forced immigration, you will get "immigrants" on your planets with no real way to control the population. Do not want the over crowding on a planet? Too bad the game says, and just throws 2 populations on a planet, now your planet is overcrowded and have no real way to deal with it. You have to create a system to colonize move population there and then abandoned the planet. Rinse repeat when more come, which they will as the game throws them at you way too often. The silly auto battles are boring with crappy camera angles. Yes even the "Free camera" is bad. The AI will outpace you no matter what even on normal. It feels more like you react to the randomness of the game versus actually creating and controlling an empire. It will take you 15 turns to hack an AI (endless mode) but yet the AI will hack you twice in that time frame (minor civilization).

Простая и интересная игра, не требующая глубоких знаний.

This game is so great. Every aspect of this game is so well crafted, it's just so satisfying to play. I usually take it pretty chill and take really long turns. The style, music, and even UI are perfectly complementary to this playstyle. You won't get as much out of it if you are the kind of fast-paced competitive player though. I think immersion is more the priority here, but on the other hand there are some really unique strategic interactions that I've never seen done anywhere else.

Кратко - говно. Во сколько 4х стратегий я переиграл, но тут я просто выпал в осадок. Вроде все, как и в бесконечных легендах, но какие-то странные мувы с балансом. Ботики берут из воздуха ресурсы на спам колонистами и на прокачку кораблей; быстрее тебя прокачивают лояльность малых фракций даже при условии, что ты нашел их первым и находятся малютки ближе к тебе; при преимуществе в бою получаешь разгромное поражение, при этом ботику сносится только крапаль ХП. Разбираться дальше первых 50 ходов уже просто нет желания, ведь боты обыгрывают не с помощью какой то тактики, а в тупую накачкой ресами.

I have NO idea what the people who are complaining are complaining about. This game is absolutely legendary.

Amplitude has effectively censored me on the forums, but they will have to eat my ♥♥♥♥ in this review: This game was incredible when it was young. It was mostly free of bugs and idiotically implemented game mechanics. Amplitude managed to outsource 2 of the last DLCs to another studio. This is why the hacking and Academy changes are so unbalanced and ruin the classic gameplay design. Game now regularly has bug issues and not loading pop-ups at 50+ turns. As someone that has spent a significant amount of time with the Civilization series and other 4X turn based and real time strategy games - Endless Space 2 can be enjoyable without the last 2 DLCs and with community patches; on a side note, Humankind is the worst turn based 4X I have ever played. Zero innovation and just "make number bigger" gameplay. However, the flavor text, drawings, and art style carry Endless Space on their own despite the "make number bigger" gameplay. It may be creatively bankrupt in terms of gameplay mechanics, but at least it is fun to look at while playing. Want to play online? Be ready to desynch every 5 turns. Whatever soul this franchise had left was celebrated by Sseth on YT.

This game has way too much tedious garbage going on in the background to be enjoyable. Every turn you just get barraged with a wave of pop-ups and cutscenes that mean absolutely nothing. You switch a turn and suddenly just get swamped with waves of nonsensical garbage that barely feel like they affect anything. POP-UP, do you want to eat blueberries or do you want to kick puppies? +10% to smurf deployment but -20 wheat for 10 turns. POP-UP, surprise event discovered! Do you want to ignore these people and get +5 support to the military faction or do you want to go to a Green Day concert and gain +10 support for the religion faction? POP-UP, new quest discovered! Form two colonies within 15 turns in the Detroit sector and gain one free hero, Amadeus the Sploinker! POP-UP, enemy faction built an IRS! You are no longer able to achieve the "I fought the law" gameplay achievement! POP-UP, enemy faction just built a Radioshack! All build costs of Radioshack has been refunded to participating faction! POP-UP, random event! A random alien landed on your system! +1 glorbo population in the Schmorgo system! POP-UP, achievement gotten! Attract a new species to your system! +10 happiness for 10 turns! THIS IS INSANITY! YOU GET POP-UPS EVERY. SINGLE. TURN. And they are NEVER interesting or important. It's always just some meandering garbage that means nothing, but you can't even ignore them because if you choose two many that aren't a part of your special snowflake government then the game just forcefully swaps you to be an ecologist or a pacifist and your entire kingdom is now utter trash for about 10 turns. Awesome. And this isn't even getting into all the other pop-ups you get from doing anything. And the gameplay IS NOT interesting enough to make up for how boring this pop-up spam is.

nearly a decade old and still reveiving updates, absolutely worth the buy

Something has happened with the battle mechanics. Not sure if it's always been this way. But, for example, say you have 2 fleets in a system and each is 800 str (simplified example). If they come in with a single fleet with 1200 str, you'd think, well I have a combined str of 1600, so I should do well. NOPE. They get to attack one of your fleets at 800 str destroying it while your other fleet I guess just sits there and watches. Then on your turn, you only have a 800 str fleet against their 1,000 or so str fleet after losses. That's totally stupid. I have now uninstalled the game.