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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 7.5 hrs on record
Posted: Mar 12, 2015 @ 6:33pm

This is a hard game to recomend. Unless they make some improvmens to the game, I have to say do not buy this unless it is on sale.

You can think of Sid Meier's Sarships as a 4x Light turn-based strategy game. The best thing I can compair it to is a Simplified iOS version of Endless Space. Even the 4 resources look and sound like Endless Space. You have Food, Science, Metal, and Engery. Each turn your planets give you all the resources that they have produced based on their population and improvment you built. There are only 5 improvment to build, one each for production of each resource and a Planetary defence one for the fifth.

You move your fleet of ships from planet to plant completing quest they give you to get influince with them until they become one of your planets. You only have one fleet and it starts with two ships. Each turn you can use your enerigy to improve your ships or build a new one to join your fleet. You never seem to loose a ship, if it is destroyed in battel, it will be back in your fleet at the end of the battle.

You can also link this game with Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth using the My2K account. Playing this game will let you unlock some things in Beyond Earth.

There are parts of the game that I did enjoy. The simplified version of the 4X game means the game move at a fast pace, focuing mainly on battles. My main problems with the game is that you can tell they put all their focus on the iOS version, and left out a lot of standard featurs you expect to have on a PC game, especially from a Firaxis and 2K game. These are not small Indie startups making their first Greenlight game.

Right now the main problems I have with the game:

-There are no resolution options and no Fullscreen. There is what they call Fullscreen Windowed
-You can set victory conditions, but the AI ignors them and can win any way it want. So victory conditions are just a way to handycap yourself.
-There is no way to rebind keys and there are no hot keys. Right now they only keys that work are they arrow keys to move the map, and the ESC that lets you exit the game.
-No multi-player. I can tell this game is going to get old realy fast. multi-player was something they were going to put in, but decided not to for some reason. I hope they change their mind on this.

Had I bought this on iOS, I would say it a great game and have a lot of fun with it, but as a pc game it feels off some how. Like we have a really good Beta, but you are just waiting for them to finish it now.
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6 Comments
Gallomimia Feb 10, 2022 @ 1:37pm 
Sounds a lot like a game I used to play, except it was web based, is now 20 years old, and was massively multiplayer. Thanks. Saved me 5 dollars.
Gurubu Apr 1, 2015 @ 12:03pm 
The only thing worse than a console port for PC - is an iOS port lol
johna37 Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:59am 
please use spell check. recommend, improvements
Saga Mar 14, 2015 @ 3:24pm 
I knew it would turn out like this ever since they announced the price for this game
BiGGLeS Mar 14, 2015 @ 8:41am 
The future game was a retexture of Civ 5. THIS? 100% money grab. What a complete sell-out. Any and all of the Civilization games refusal to have any decent sort of battle mechanics ruins the entire game for me. If someone wants to make bank, put a game out there that has the micro-battle management of Empire Total War, then add the diplomacy & political intrigue of Crusader Kings 2. I would fork tons of money to see that game.
Velhote Mar 14, 2015 @ 12:56am 
This game is an offense for all true grand strategy players out there. If that is what you are expecting, dont buy it.