Gemini Wars is an older game from 2012. It's a venerable 12 years old at the time of this review. From the visuals you would probably expect this is some kind of awesome Homeworld inspired 3D space RTS... and you'd be wrong. This is a 3D rendered 2D "dumbed down" RTS that plays a bit more like a node attack/defense game than a real RTS. And this lacklustre, disappointing game design is matched by an equally underwhelming low implementation quality.

On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.

The developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at around 1440p, there's no support for the state-of-the-art 4K or higher resolutions. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers. It also looks a little funny if you view the game in widescreen... not sure if that's deliberate or they just never tested it on widescreen.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Gemini Wars didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for defending some system from an attack (basically one of the earliest things you do in the campaign), trivial to get, but less than 33 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

Gemini Wars has the comically over-optimistic price of $10 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $10 asking price for this game could get you games like "Mirror's Edge", "Monster Hunter World" or "Cities: Skylines". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Total disaster from start to end.

Not great

Does not start in Windows 11. can this be fixed?

Could not get past one of the early missions. Does not let you play the way you want and forces a direction.

buggy

Game never worked for me

This game is broken and unplayable. Even if it was it would just by a crappy rip-off of Sins of a Solar Empire. Do not waste your money, get a game that actually works.

I can not even make it run. :/ I was hoping it would just give me 10 hours intertainmant for the money I had used on it. ans full of bugs as everyone else is saying :P

Overpriced, dull, and forgettable.

I bought it when I was hankering for a decent space strategy game.

This ain't it chief.