Has an android port ever been considered?

[Zefnoly]

Sometimes I love sitting down just running some managment/strategy/sandbox games on my phone when I am out waiting for something or whatnot. This game has always felt like a contender for a neat mobile port. Has it been considered? I have noticed a growing market for android ports of PC games. And they all beat the regular android games out of the water for simply not being "mobile phone games" in the traditional microtransaction hellscape sloppify landscape.

[Death Approaches]

probably, it's java after all, but the control mechanism, all that zooming in and out, it will probably be a frustrating experience, with a touchscreen interface? you're gonna need a pause button right where one of your thumbs sits holding the screen, as most of the game will have to be played paused, do stuff, then watch it play out, pause, do stuff again...

and yes, they've said they've thought about doing this, but it will take a substantial controls revamp to accommodate that; controller players have oft requested this, too, but the speed and pinpoint precision of a mouse is hard to beat, which is why we're still using them in 2026... like take drafting control, tap right-click or hold right-click, and trying to do that with a fingertip on a touchscreen where the game must assume what you meant your finger to be over, the crewman, the machine, the ship flying beneath your finger at the time...

you can probably try right now with Steam remote play if you put Steam on your phone... but I can't imagine you'll get very far or have much fun doing so. 🤷🏻‍♂️