Nexus Legacy

Ogame but better

It's a great real time strategy game. I've played loads of games like these over the past 10 years. Nova Empire, and Star Trek Fleet Command just to name a few. This one continues in that glorious tradition. The pace is slower, so it's a lot easier to play AFK -- just have to be more strategic about it. The dev is very active in updating the game, and listens to community feedback. I don't quite understand the negative reviews, but suffice it to say, for a persistent-universe free-to-play (and currently it's really not pay to win), this is an absolute gem, and I hope the dev continues to support this game. Also, being able to play this on PC, Browser, and on mobile is really good for QOL!

has Ogame and DroidWars vibes.

Heavyly imbalanced. One either be there for the start of the universe or exist only at bigger players mercy. The UI often looses connection to the game server. But only within steam. (Android/browser works fine in my expierience.) Which gives a hugh disadvantage for affected players. There is also powerfull p2w-mechanics. Fleet and combat mechanics seem broken and are not well documented. If ones fleet/tech crosses a treshold, another one cant even make a scratch on a single enemy fighter ship, even though there are plenty of stationary defences and defending fleet of multiple players wich are not that much weaker.

Wasn't expecting someone to sit down, look at OGame and say it needs a spiritual successor in 2026, but here we are. Overview: This game will polarise most people though, you're going to have players that have fond memories of OGame (Before it went heavy p2w, as did it's competitors.) And will genuinely be pleased to see something like this being made, and then there's going to be people who hate it, find it boring and a waste of time. TO be clear, these types of games have never been the type to constantly check. You set up your moves, leave the game running in the background while you do work. TribalWars, Backyard Monsters, Travian and OGame all kind of fall under this umbrella of MMORTS, where your very presence on a server can be wiped out by someone further ahead than you. As a result, "games" are basically released over time as new servers and that's typically when you should start playing. If that sound pretty brutal, it's by design. Pay to Win concerns: I see comments saying the command centre is pay to win, and in a game where power scales against others players. There is some credence to that idea. However, I feel it's also greatly exaggerated, a lot of the players saying it's pay to win and quitting after 10 hours would most likely not get very far even if the command centre was a standard feature. (Your biggest offensive and defensive tool in these games has always been diplomacy with other players. And that is free.) The command Centre: What the Command Centre does from what I can tell, is it allows you to add a an extra fleet mission, and an extra build que. However the exploration can be brutal and the likelihood you'll even need that 3rd fleet order is very unlikely early. Same goes for the build que, as you'll be scrounging your resources and might not even be able start a build order. That being said the, game gives a few free days I imagine so it makes those early "few minutes" builds a little easier to plan out. But if a build is going to take 5 hours, with or without the command centre, your second build will only start after the first is finished and in tandem the 3rd after the 2nd. In other words, if you're attentive, and play this game in the background while doing spreadsheets, that 3rd build que just becomes a little redundant. There's also the research panner, but while you might think this automatically starts research, it does not. It's a planner pure and simple, you still have to start the research manually and if you have "Notepad" you can get the same usage. This feature also gives you statistical data which, again, can be useful but when you're attentive becomes less needed. So far as I can tell, it's "Pay to Plan". You have access to all the same features that a subbed player has, same progressions, same dangers. I feel we've become so hypersensitive about pay to win (And, rightly so...) That we perceive any kind of statistical increase "the reason" you would never succeed in a game like this. But I am a free player and I've been doing okay thus far I feel, simply by listening out for notifications of stuff completing and then planning the next move. When you compare this to games from the mid 2000's like OGame you realise how bad it can get. And how dev's realised pretty early on that purchasing power is a great money maker for your very simplistic browser based game. Is the game for you? I hate asking this question typically when I do reviews (Even if no one reads them.), I'll never say "Do you like concept A, and Concept B? Then this is the game for you!" I feel it's a moot point because you're already looking at the reviews out of interest but here I feel I need to at least put the question to you, as someone who may read this in that position. Because the game is slow, it's methodical, it's brutal and it can get very busy, especially when you start to understand that your diplomacy and planning around *AND* with other players becomes more and more crucial to your own survival. It's almost entirely text based outside of some basic images and concept arts and that really harkens back to it's roots in OGame. For some, this games going to be a neat little time waster while you do computer work or play something else and just keep checking back to this over the day. For others, it's going to be boring pay-to-win and not worth the effort because the guy with 1 extra fleet command and build makes it "impossible" for free players. In Conclusion: Neptune's Pride, for me at least. Has been the gold standard for an online browser based PvP 4X game (Mouthful of word salad) for a good few years now , for a lot of reasons. Equal footing starts, a very big emphasis on diplomacy and cloak and dagger tactics, a genuine sense of expansion over the game, and alliances going to war in a bid to out last their enemies (As well as each other.) And as well, more recently, Backyard Monsters Refitted finally showed me how a games like these would have actually worked if they had zero pay-to-win options because for the most part, every single game of this type has gone down heavy pay-to-win routes and these are the only 2 that are similar that I've found that don't have pay-to-win. Nexus Legacy skirts that line pretty close and your perception toward it will be the factor that determines if you're okay with it. It's a 4X game with player interaction over a long period of time, which conceptually always drew me to these games when we all had grey bricks for PC's as kids. Your options these days for games like these are pretty limited if you want to avoid power being outright sold and in turn, your time being wasted. And at the very least, good attention to detail will take you far as a free player in Nexus Legacy. I'm 100 hours in and still haven't needed to look at that Command Centre sub as something I need. However if I were a good few hundred hours in, I'd feel bad about not getting it at that point just to support something I actively am playing. It would be nice to see the command centre become a standard feature, as I feel that would prevent people from quitting after a few hours and then just leaving a negative review which will just turn potential players further away. And for cosmetics to be the way to support the game which they already do. (Mine and a lot of people's preferred way.) Despite not really being into them myself, they are a good way to support a dev while feeling like you actually got something that just applies to a players vanity instead of a piece of the game or their power, even if that part is small depending on your perception of it.

Very nice game if you like 4X-"Text-Based" games like OGame. It takes the concept and enhances it to an extent i wish Ogame would have done for over 15 years. It adds cool new mechanics like active mining missions in asteroid belts for example. And the corresponding mobile app is very well done as well. The game's early access is just fine tuning (a bit of polish and balancing), so it feels complete, which is nothing you can say about a lot of early access games out there. Would totally recommend :)

this game should state more obviously that it is a game for people who want to do mmo gaming and who want to have pvp competition. nice effort by a new designer, but the gameplay is extremely unbalanced. competition with players who got started earlier is a bad idea, especially grouping players together too much. it might be fine for some players who are willing to make this a full time job, or for those who are fine with pay to win. fortunately it was easy to get a refund. (for those who don't get sarcasm, it was free to play, so no money was involved) when the game is out of beta testing there might be enough interest from a niche demographic that the developer could monetize it without having a shop to accelerate resource mining