Uciana

[Emperator Orionii]

Stumbled upon this mobile 4X by accident while checking Play Store suggestions.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdshel.Uciana

Anyone heard of it? It looks heavily inspired by MoO, it actually reminds me of IS:G.

[Bou]

Never heard of it. Looks interesting.

[BitGamerX]

It makes me wonder what ever happened to Starbase Orion 2.

[Mr.Kill]

It's an okay game. A bit too easy to steam roll.

[Nasarog]

Oliver, you hear of htis?

[Emperator Orionii]

Bought it, it's fine, MoO 2 inspired with some parts trimmed. You can design race, something most MoO 2 inspired gamed skip, there is tactical combat with hexagons and asteroid cover and there is ship designer. Colony management is a bit fiddly with double thumb FIS slider but I started a game on smallest galaxy so I don't suffer much from it.

[Emperator Orionii]

After playing 4 games I think I've devised the URTIMATE strategy for winning in Uciana which basically consists of cloning centers everywhere.

The game has really interesting terraforming mechanic. It's more like box of chocolate kind of interesting than chess tactic kind. The game has wooping 30 planet climate types! Map starts with dozen or so "normal" climates with few special ones around guarded systems but as you start terraforming each climate has a chance to turn into one of special ones. And there are like 5 options for each. You can terraform each planet only once so the map doesn't end up in all gaia worlds and not all terraforms turn for the better. Most of them do but those 5% that don't will make you smile too (trigger for "We somehow made it worse" is one of them :)). It's a win either way, you get somewhat worse planet but it gains a bonus resource, usually with empire-wide bonus.

[Emperator Orionii]

Anyone played this, how does it compare to Starbase Orion (can't play it due to failed Kickstarter)?