SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD

A faithful representation of the board game, with some of the bugs (mostly pertaining to the Ventures DLC) being rapidly squashed. No multiplayer at the moment, though, strictly solo. About the game itself: it's a peaceful space exploration with 3 distinct phases (nearby space up to asteroid belt, whole Solar system, nearby stars), with each phase resetting the board and having additional mechanics. Due to this, the game is taught to you gradually, without overwhelming newer players. I highly recommend the tutorial, it teaches you the basics nicely. For those who never played the board game: this is a turn-based game of space exploration. The game flow is about moving your exploration teams to explore celestial bodies and putting various bases on them, gaining cash for that. The engine of the game is the shared deck of multi-use cards, with each card only used once - unless you add it to your several infrastructure slots, which allows their reuse. In its essence the game is a race to complete various objectives (akin to achievements) to gain more cash before your opponents can claim them; but there are multiple additional ways to get profit. Eras 2 and 3 add powerful technologies (which are also limited in number, so a race again) and additional complications like cosmic radiation and increased distances between celestial bodies, with more mechanics (such as establishing colonies) added. The mechanics of the multi-card use and steep requirements for movement, exploration and building combined with the race for objectives makes the game a nice thinking mind-bender. The game currently only supports solo play, but it has two options: AI bots playing the game by the rules and solo regime from the board game which uses card-driven randomization to simulate competition (straight from the board game). AI bots are fluid, but very bad at the game, you almost need make an effort to lose to them. The drawbacks of the game is the aforementioned lack of multiplayer and poor difficulty of AI bots and very strange UI (it's working, but it's a mess). The other one is linked to the source material, the appearance of the game is pretty bland. Other than that, the game is a good. Just be warned that this is a board game adaptation, so the dynamics are different from a pure video game.

Great adaptation of the board game, with the Ventures expansion. Plays fairly smoothly, though the AI isn't always the best. It seems there are a few bugs, such as not allowing Team Transport when it should be available, and the Poach card doesn't always put all the cards from the player's discards into your hand. Fully playable on Android, though the HQ text is often too small, and there is no function to expand it to see better. Still recommend if you are a fan of the board game.

Do the tutorial first. you cant play it on intuition, not that interface - friendly Except that i bet its ok - but im p**** off so im done with it. If you need to read a manual, it blows

Great adaption of the boardgame

Pros: Comes with board game rules PDF. Learning curve is about 3 games. Variety of strategies from confrontational to niche. The space-race feel is well implemented. Claim-jumping keeps the competition wide open. No setup time and It won't clutter your dining table for hours. Cons: Infrastructure sharing is still in development for AI players. Contracts and Bio and tech developments are easy to overlook for new players. Few hints and rule notices make important events like the era ending conditions a surprise for new/casual players.

[h1] A hesitant recommendation [/h1] This review is intended as an evaluation of the digital adaptation for those are already familiar with the board game. A rough-but-functional digital adaptation of the board game. The Ventures DLC expansion is basically a must-buy. To echo many other reviews, there are significant caveats to be aware of: [olist] [*]There is [b]no multiplayer in any form[/b]. No hotseat, no LAN, no nothing. It does include the solo variant (I have not played it yet), and the regular game with up to 3 CPU opponents. [*]The [b]CPU players are bad[/b]. Even on the hardest difficulty, a somewhat experienced player will utterly dominate (think a score of 100+ versus ~30-40). They will make plainly suboptimal plays (the most egregious I saw was sending all available crew Beyond when no Milestones had been claimed in the era, and when the CPU player in question had barely built anything at all. Utterly crippling their entire game.) Your challenge is really a high score against yourself. [*]The [b]UI is amateurish[/b]. This is not a particularly pretty game, and the UI can be utterly opaque at times - most obviously during game setup (to swap between Venture draft/all-pick modes is a single checkbox, whose text actually corresponds to the mode you will change to if you click the box, not the mode you're looking at now; you can't view opponent's selected Venture corp during draft, so unless you have the corps memorized you won't know what they do until you're in-game). Clicking on crew in-game is unreliable; you'll want to use the keyboard shortcuts (Space by default; shortcuts visible in game by pressing Tab). Selecting your final scoring card You'll eventually get the hang of it, but it's never entirely smooth. [/olist] I have not encountered any game-breaking bugs, but I did find an edge case in the Starfarers era that required exiting to the Main Menu and reloading (if you acquire the Entangled Transmitter Breakthrough when there are no valid empty locations to jump to, the game will soft lock). I've also not encountered any apparent errors in the rules implementation that other reviews have alluded to. I'm curious as to what those perceived errors are. Overall, I just really enjoy SpaceCorp and don't have an opportunity to play it with other people in-person that often, so this adaptation is just fine for me. If you want more SpaceCorp in your life and don't care about the quality of your opponents nor about having a polished UI, this is a fine purchase. But if you've never played the game before or if you're looking for a multiplayer adaptation, this may not be the right fit for you.

If you have a chance to play IRL, I highly recommend you do. The UI is horrible, but the game it is based on is fantastic. I mean, why would it automatically assume unshielded anything when you have more than enough using the shielded; well its because there is a super faint drag and drop border you might not notice for top and bottom of the card. Also, when I was in last place, AI player on easy chose to hit me with a negative interaction card? Is it random? Or is the AI trained to always target the human? It functions, and I think it gets all the rules right*, so I'm giving it a thumbs up, but only just. Edit: Ok, I had to quit a game on easy because I accidentally selected an industrial base when I meant to place refinery. Next game, I was super careful to select place refinery and it STILL PUT OUT INDUSTRIAL!!! This UI is terrible. I rescind my thumbs up. For clarification, I am still newish to this game (and a skilled gamer), but even on easy its going to be a super close game and one mistake will guarantee a loss against 3 AI.

Quel plaisir !!!! l'adaptation du jeu de plateau est top !

Works great! Faithful single-player adaptation of the board game; you play against your choice of the solitaire 'bot' that comes with the hard-copy board game, or against an adequately skilled AI pretending to be the other human players. No true multiplayer yet. The board game is my gold standard for a medium-weight hard sci-fi Eurogame, and if you like the board game, you'll like this software.

Love it... plays like the board game and even better