Fragile Allegiance

This was one of the first PC games I ever played around '97, and dear god was this amazing in its day. I still want to recreate this on a modern platform. I f***ing love this game. Nostalgia, ♥♥♥♥♥.

This is one of the best sim/strategy games ever made.. imagine its already almost 30 years old but still the AI/Engine works much more better than many new and modern games.

too good, i don't know why doesn't anyone mention this game anywhere.

This a true gem of the 90's. Although getting on 30 years old, by no means let that put you off cus FA's game play is quite unique in itself involving asteroids, ships, sats & missiles. The colony management is some what limited, however the ship, sat & missile control is really good. Secret agents can add diversity although notorious to all so aliens don't mind negotiating no covert operations. Colony supervisors are for hire to help you manage your asteroids. Traders come & go selling a variety of wares, medicines, illegal info gossip, ores, missiles & killer viruses. Six alien races to choose from in set scenarios or in a custom game. Again the options are limited here but can still bring on an enjoyable compelling game. The graphics & animations speak for the time but are still good. There's still a lot more good points to mention but I could be here for a while telling you. Suffice to say, you wont be disappointed.

a old school game way ahead of its time there is a whole market where price changes over seasons for buying, selling, and trading. It may take a lil time knowing how to play and understand but once use to it it is very easy to play. I wish someone would mod and keep it old school just add a few more ores and air crafts etc. Overall great game!!!!!!!

This is an old game but still a very good one. Still very much worth playing.

Ein Klassiker aus meiner Jugend! Es gibt einfach kein Spiel, welches so lange mit so einem einfachen Gameplay den Spielspass aufrechterhält.

Worked fine for 2-3 hours, now it crashes either on startup or after a few minutes playing with a DOS 4GW error. Also it claims I have played for 14 hours which is not possible. I purchased it at 9:30 pm yesterday, played 2-3 hours and quit. Something apparently continued to run and ran up my time after I exited it so I can't get a refund now. At least I got it on sale. As for the game itself (as much as I could experience in limited time), it's okay, kind of tedious with no hotkeys, forcing you to use the mouse for everything.

I loved this game when it came out but it does not run well on current windows systems and crashes, Check out Imperium Galactica II, Masters of Orion 3 and other related space games from the time. Endless Space is also pretty good

AI colony managers are pretty bad. Game is becomes impossible since it can't be paused and managed and there are just too many things to do - not fun things though - mostly tedious management of many many planets. Essentially the game loop is to colonize a planet, build a couple of buildings to manage population needs, and for mining (really boring, zero depth to this system), and somehow sell the mined resources. Once you're done with a planet the buildings just stay there and there's not much to do with the planet. So now to generate income you have to keep colonizing new planets, which means you have many planets to manage (i.e. build the same thing over and over again) and ship the mined resources back to some home planet for sale. The interfaces are 90's bad (i.e. zero QOL for things you do 90% of the time), which was reasonable 30 years ago, not recommended for today though. Obviously there are other tedious things to do (like simple random graph based trading of "unique resources") which you can't focus on due to every aspect of the game requiring micro management. As someone who didn't play this game in the 90s, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't have nostalgia for this particular game.