Endless Space

[Ori]

Endless Space [...] and its strategic turn-based space-conquering is fantastic, so you’re going to have to cancel your plans to do some Christmas shopping, hunt sharks or play with your new Nintendo-Box. There are so many space games in the crowd-funding mixer at present but it would be very foolish to forget that this year has already seen such a stellar release.

-Rock, Paper, Shotgun

 

I agree with this guy. Endless Space is a game developed by Amplitude Studios, available through Steam that, among many features, has an really diversified range of tech and weapons. The 4X strategy game also has 9 playable factions (+1 extra for Emperor Edition), several ship designs for each faction, various hero units that can use abilities such as Gravity Well, reasonably big galaxies to play at maximum size, and diverse ways to achieve victory.

 

4X games are the good strategy ones, the 'X's being "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit", and everyone's favorite;

 

The game's battle system has basically two key elements; how strong your military is, and how your "Battle Cards" are used. Battle Cards basically are the type of strategy that your fleets will use. They can also perform other actions when a hero is assigned.

 

The ships are not completely customizable as in shape, being the factor to define how they will look like the faction you pick, but which weapons/modules or how much defense/anti-missile it will have that are custom. You can create several classes with different attributes even if you have only one ship type.

 

And there's more I may add to the thread later, since I'm short in time here.

 

So, opinions and thoughts on the game?

[Faisul]

I'd really like to love this game, as it has everything in it to make for an excellent 4X game. It is extremely well-polished, has quite a bit of depth to it, and it's basically Civ in space with some fairly interesting innovations (like the heroes management system, complete with XP, levelling, and perk systems). I just couldn't get into the abstracted battle system. However, should that not be a turn-off for any of you other folks, this game definitely deserves your attention. It's really good, and 4X games need all the love they can get nowadays!