Galactic Inheritors

There are so many things I like about Galactic Inheritors. New/revived ideas differentiate this game from the hoardes of other space 4X wannabes. I think the two aspects that stood out the most were the forced used of propaganda to persuade the public before being able to declare war, and outsourcing of warships. The latter needs some work, but the game had enough positives for me to spend almost 18 hours on it. Unfortunately, the devs lazied out on controls, and that's what killed the game for me. 470 turns of left clicking to select, command, confirm, move map, queue, cancel, attack, colonize.... it's totally insane. Did you understand that last sentence? Left click is ALL you have. No right click, no enter, no escape, no shift key to queue duplicates. Well, you can use the mouse wheel to zoom. And that's it. The rest of the game is ALL left click. Halfway through the game, I realized I did't need to put my left hand on my keyboard, because left clicking was ALL I was doing. I'm really not one to complain about controls.. Really, I'm pretty tolerant about a lot of things if the core game is good. But this.... this is too much. It's utterly stupid and outright unforgiveable. I don't know if the devs were planning to make a touchscreen port for phones, but that is no excuse. 10,000 left clicks to beat the map once is not something you force on your player. It's just not fun any more. So yeah, one 470-turn game is more than enough. I'll be deleting this game in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Started off well and then....fell flat on its face because it was ABANDONED!!!!!

This is possibly the worst 4x I've ever played. And I've played a LOT of them. Very first game I was beaten back to my home system before realizing that debt only hurt research and had no limit, so proceed to run nine shipyards at full capacity for the remainder of the game and conquer the galaxy. Finished with so much debt the game had trouble displaying my money properly. There are no 'subgames' to keep you occupied outside of the primary loop so there is nothing else to it that might distract you. I would not recommend this to anybody, ever.

The low production values, and simplified play makes this a rather charming game for me. It's too bad it has such negative views, but it makes sense that it would in the end. I don't fully know what it is, but the game managed to captivate me for an entire play through. I only wonder if it can do it again. I shall find out soon enough when I tackle hard mode. I'm curious to know what the penalties are that the game places on the player for that difficulty setting.

This game is very stable and easy to learn and play. Unfortunately it's also very simple. There just isn't much to do in the game. After nearly 2 hours of playing I think I've seen everything the game has to offer. Turn 54 looks just like turn 5. It's just boring. BUT if you are looking for a very casual board game and it's on sale for 80% off it might be worth giving it a try.

https://youtu.be/nikAn0ERfJ0 The lack of animations, full sound, and limited options in most areas leave this feeling like a shell of the 4X foundations the game is drawing inspiration from.

Not Recommended. The game is very shallow, and what is available is bugged, As a vivid 4X player I struggled to win at leats one session. I tried for total domination, and was close to wun despite such facts that in half cases the fleet just decided not to fire or not to shoot. However, because of the bug in media mechanism (which is the only remotely innovative feature) I was not allowed to declare war on one of the races, Then I hed for technical victory. This requires to build 4 buildin. One of the planets which built it got destroyed, and the building was never to be offered again to build. Broken, unplayable game with nothing interesting or innovative. Avoid.