Falling Stars: War of Empires

Major Issue: Carriers absolutely cannot move unless they're carrying something. Why? There's no logical or gameplay reason for this. I end up with carriers being stranded all over the map, because it's not worth the effort to send another carrier to go get them. Minor Issues: This far after launch, there's still some annoying bugs, like the fact that you can't research some technologies, even with the prerequesites for them, or you can, but they show up as grayed out, as if you could. Also, carriers still are listed as having "movement: 1" even after I researched the movement upgrade. The game makes you watch battles that don't affect you, and you can't even tell who's who until after the battle is over. They're kind of boring to watch too. Battles in general could be more interesting. The game falls a little flat on aesthetics: The whole look for the fleets is a little off, some species have "fighters" that look like cap ships on the map, the ground units for some look like they're carrying musical instruments instead of weapons. It's not all bad, and I like the concept of a "Twilight Imperium" like computer game, but the dealbreaker for me is the carrier issue. I may chang…

Although this game was cheap ($9) on sale, I don't think it's even worth that. The gameplay is odd, and the waiting time for the AI to play its turn is ridiculous. After about turn 20-25 I was waiting 3-4 minutes on an i9-9900k with a RTX 2080. It's just the AI mucks around for so long and seems to have far more army movement than you do. There is also no capacity to modify any of your ships and there are only 4 types. ie: Fighter's, Carrier's, Cruiser's and Dreadnought's. There is 1 troop type. It's a very simple game, where your planets generate resources every turn, and you spend it on building more ships (instantly) or research (instantly). You can only move your Army 1 space at a time and can split it manually to go into different directions but you can complete your turn in seconds while the AI takes minutes for the 3-4 opponents I chose to play against. It would be a nightmare in terms of waiting for more than 5. Not recommended at all, plenty of space games out there that are far better.

Seems like the beginning of a good game, needs to fix the issues with it crashing though.

A really fun game that draws inspiration from many of the greatest 4X board games! However, it's a little buggy and dated graphically, so I'd probably wait for a discount.

Fun, but not what I was expecting.

If you like Twilight Imperium, this game does Twilight Imperium pretty good. It has 4 instead of 17 factions. Id love more factions. Still, its a fun game, its fast too if you want it. Thats why I love it, its a fast 20 min Twilight Imperium experience. GREAT!