Stars in Shadow

Old school 4x in space. Reminds me a lot of Master of Orion 2

This is a fun little game, that reminds me a lot of MOO2. It's quite fun and worth sinking a few hours into. It's a relatively simple game to pick up with few systems to learn. This is a great little game if you want to scratch that 4X itch.

Just saw it got an update. Need to come back to this one in 26.

too buggy. 古いゲームなのに落ちまくり、しかもセーブ・データ自体が破壊されてゲームを続けられないことが多いです。この手のゲームとしては致命的と言うしかないでしょう。動いている間は、のんびり遊べて楽しいのですが。 解決したので。intel GPUを使わなければよいようです。なのに、軽いから自動だとintelを使ってしまうと言うのが原因。「おすすめ」に変えましたけれど、非常に多くの人が使うGPUで動かないのはどうかと思いますね。

its been 3 days, 750,000 colinists have starved to death. 2 scout ships have been burned at neighboring stars. Dinosaurs are now extinct... again.. Could use a good starting tutorial, too much going on within the screen, ill come back in another century to see if i can figure it out.

Nice streamlined 4X game with reasonable replayability - the limitation being the optimum ways of setting up planets and going through the tech tree is fairly static, so once you have the hang of it, most of each game becomes very similar, with only moderate variation for a couple of the more unique races you can play. Building your empire, sending out scouts and colonists, are all fairly straightforward and standard for the genre, with the exception that most planets have different biomes which encourage you capture (or allow to immigrate in at least once case) alien races into your empire in order to get the most out of each planet, for example grabbing some aquatic Phidi colonists for your ocean/island planets, etc. The tech tree while wide is effectively somewhat linear because of how much the tech costs ramp up, which means you generally fill out most of the lower levels of each scientific area (at least all the useful stuff for your race/play style), and only beeline a handful of expensive technologies (such as the ones that increase your ships speed/range, double the effectiveness of each building type). Conversely this only happens because a large fraction of the technologies have clear benefits (or at least give extra options you might need to switch to, such as a different weapon type if you find yourself up against an enemy that has a counter for your current loadout). So finally the main area that really makes or breaks such games is the ship design and tactical combat - the design part is straightforward if somewhat limited, each ship design has modular component slots (usually with a multiplier so you are fitting two lasers or two coilguns in a particular slot for example) and you can make ships have more armour/shields, a bigger crew to try to capture enemy ships, and choose between direct fire weapons with various special effects vs missiles/fighters vs point defence weapons. Tactical combat on the other hand is okay, but the general streamlining of the game means you don't have a setup phase, which can cause issues (such as gaps in your point defence coverage when you start, or large ships stuck behind the lines and difficult to move up with lots of shuffling smaller ones out of the way), and controlling the ships is a little finicky at times, such as you can left click on the enemy ships when targeted to see its loadout, but it isn't always easy to get them to "stick" in the target window so you can click on them, but apart from that it is pretty good and while you can get some advantage playing fights manually, automating doesn't give vastly different results in most cases (the exception being where you can stand off and missile the enemy defences/planet down, the AI would charge in and take unnecessary damage), so you don't have to fight every battle once everyone's production gets high and there are fleets everywhere. Overall a decent entry into the genre, which is probably worth your time as it has a decent amount of new ideas, is fairly quick to pick up, but probably doesn't have the depth you are likely to get much out of playing hundreds of games as they will get fairly samey once you have played all the races and got the hang of all the systems in the game.

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A low learning curve for some races and a made sense battle. some races have higher learning curve, and those are quite challenging. The ruthless method was an easy way out.(Killing the entire planet) Very re-playable. I am learning how to play with other races. (using a more humane method of ruling them)

so far it plays nice and easy! I would definitly play this in multiplayer! Where games like stellaris feel like a buggy mess where everything is a chore this game feels nice and easy to understand and play. In about 30 minutes i understand everything i need to. I am gone post this comment now in the hope that i dont forget to play more.

这款4x太好玩了，本想游玩更长时间更有资格的时候再评价，但真的忍不住了，我评价时的游戏时间，几乎是一口气打出来的。不过话说在前面，这是款有些粗糙的“小”游戏、老游戏，不要抱太高期待。 这款游戏最基本的机制简单易上手，开局时仔细阅读一下顾问的指导，不用几个回合就能轻松上手了，点错了也没关系，回合内可以撤销上一步操作。虽然简单易上手，机制本身并不浅薄，不同的种族具有不同的特性可以利用，可以根据敌人飞船的特点设计自己的舰船，战斗时要考虑移动、船头朝向、敌我双方护盾方向、武器发射顺序（比如先用破甲武器破甲），当然你也可以先不考虑这么多，选择自动战斗，然后看回放来总结经验。 作为一款只有英文的“小老游”，我特别推荐 Stars in Shadow 的一个点，是它亲切易懂。专业词汇必定会用简单的词汇进行解释，并且，使用了大量直观的图标帮助玩家快速理解，例如：这个星球xxx了【图标A】，想要解决，你可以放置yyy【图标B】，或者建设zzz【图标C】。总之，这款游戏通过非常友好，乃至有点像英文教材一样，尽可能让玩家直观理解里面的内容，甚至还能学到英文！所以，感兴趣的都不妨来试一下，这款游戏真的很好上手。 说完优点，说几个不足： + UI有的人会觉得比较简陋，然而我个人觉得还挺好的，点显示科技点的地方就弹出科技面板，点外交点数的地方弹出外交面板，以此类推 + 有的操作不太符合直觉，像科技队列就有点麻烦，队列中的没有明显高亮，队列需要一个个点，星球的生产面板也是，生产顺序不能拖动，点错了得各种单击右击，有点烦人 + 战斗时的操作也和上一条类似，显示不够直观，操作逻辑不够明确，经常发生误操作，记得多保存 + 中后期星球多了微操有点多，希望能出个自动补全运输队的功能 + 势力范围内的居民不会自由流动，期待未来能有新DLC加深这方面深度