Not available to purchase on steam anymore?

[Buzz Killington]

Any info?

[Icedfate]

it's been pulled from the ios app store as well. . .

it's a good thing I still have my copy installed on my device.

to be honest, you aren't really missing anything.
the game is awesome, one of my favorite board games of all time, but the computer adaptation leaves much to be desired.

the a.i. plays really slow. I mean, the pace is slow.

like, the real life board game takes 6-8 hours with people, which is one thing, but the computer game vs a.i. STILL takes 2 hours and that's against a.i. that knows what it is doing.



the game is also prone to glitching out. sometimes the a.i. gets caught in a loop and a game becomes uncompletable.

other times, a glitch happens where the a.i. just stops taking turn for the rest of the game. it doesn't say the a.i. passes or anything, it just skips their turn and keeps going back to you until the game ends.

The game DOES work, most of the time, but it's really frustrating to be an hour and a half in and have it glitch out in round 8 of 9.

and the irony is that their original version worked just fine, it wasn't until they did their last update that is what broke the game and they never bothered to fix it. they just abandoned the game and apparently, now it's been pulled from all the marketplaces

[depth386]

Ugh, that is such an epic fail. I own the board game. Thanks for all the info Femaiden.

[Arlan]

Bad news, I wanted to buy it too.

[Rockbandguy]

I would like to purchase the game, too.
Isn't there an option?

[Darth Warez]

No point to purchase it. Tabletop Simulator have full version with expansions, this bugged version is completely outclassed.

[Narkulus]

Originally posted by Darth Warez:

No point to purchase it. Tabletop Simulator have full version with expansions, this bugged version is completely outclassed.

TS version = No AI = :(

[Star Paladin]

I just played this again after a long time letting it set. I found it pretty darn good now with patches and updates, and changed my review to a thumbs up. It's really not for sale any more???

[adder007usa]

So a few things that some people may not be aware of.

Eclipse 2nd edition (Second dawn of the galaxy) is currently in development, for the real life board game. The kickstarter website FAQ has an entry regarding the electronic version. Basically, the creator of this app went under, no longer producing games nor supporting this product.

With that being said;

Current word on the kickstarter is that lautapelit, the creator of the boardgame itself, has purchased rights to all the digital data, and will hopefully be producing their own electronic version of hte game.

[[GWJ] Keithustus]

Thanks adder!

[Galdred]

The ios version was also a mess when it came to multiplayer:
I had like 10% of my games go to completions (mostly 1v1):
MP games would disappear if anyone took too long to play his turn:
He would not go AI, the game would just disappear.
I was told there was no good way to determine who took too much time, and the only remedy would be to lengthen the delay.

I don't know whether this feature also plagued Steam or not, but it was a big disappointment to me.

[Bulva]

Is there any chance to get Eclipse ???
Recently I bought Exodus: Proxime Centauri (game similar to Eclipse - also very good),
but no players online, and Ai is primitive.
Please help. :-)

[jaybird]

I came here hoping to get a copy for single-player... I guess that there's no hope now that the devs have vanished, huh?

[Uthegen]

the second edition of the Boardgame appeared, so perhaps that gets also the new version

[alxmosley]

urgh. just discovered this game and now i cant buy it

[_Randi_]

Eclipse is back up on iOS and Android (Android seems tablet-only), so we can still have hope