Star Ruler

so this entire game is 256MB that it all my play time speaks for itself i have owned this a vary long time dec29 2011 it got me into the 4x game its a must own must play even for a small game for $8 do it and to the devs thanks for a huge part of my love for gaming

it's a fun game for what it is. it does have one drawback. it's very frustrating when your ships die immediately upon being built for no obvious reason, and it happens pretty frequently. you can spend hours trying to figure out what the problem is only to have it stop at what seems to be random. other than that it's a very fun game

Better than Stellaris in that the "sky is the limit". No silly rules forcing you to be unable to do basic things unless you jump through hoops, or what those snowflake devs perceives as "tHaT wOuLd bE uNfAiR!" - at best, there's a setting to not allow attacking systems unless at war, which you can gladly turn-off and initiate pearl-harbor style attacks at will. Ya know, like as happens in reality. Don't like me placing dozens of ships at the edge of your star system? TOO BAD. They...uh..."come in peace". You can build ships that act like mobile bases, end up putting thrusters on your planet and having it fly leave the solar system, have planetary lasers and cannons and shields, turn your solar system into a halo-esque "Ring" system. Make ships the size of planets or greater. Blow up planets. Blow up stars. Or each the point your fire-power is so great, you can blow up the galactic core and set-off a chain-reaction cascade that slowly spreads through the galaxy detonating whole solar systems. Sound like fun?! A bit a of learning curve, but to any fan of Stellaris, it will be easy as heck to figure out. The game is very much like Stellaris meets Sins of a Solar Empire gone…

Great game. I've got almost 800 hours in it. more than worth the purchase.

Great 4x RTS. Extremely customizable experience to allow for short or long play sessions. Mods can expand the game further, but this is a classic that I enjoy picking up again and again.

Been a while since I've played this type of game, thought I was getting the hang of it, after several tries. Then there's the wtf moment 4 hours into a new game I get completely wiped by an AI that attacked me with around 200 size 5000+ ships, each of which has more health than any of my planets. I couldn't have built even one of the ships, I'm done, the game simply isn't for me. Tried again, like the concept of the ship design, more aggressive colonization and research, at the 4hour mark, easily surpassed the other civilizations at the 5 hour mark over 1000 planets.