Planetary Control!

Planetary Control! gives a good first impression, then drowns in an ocean of flaws. By the makers of Kerberos (makers of Sword of the Stars, one of my favorite 4X games ever) comes a card game set in the universe of SOTS, though this relation is relegated to a very brief intro and the game itself having zero story content. The game revolves around five planets. As a space warlord, you are given a variety of cards scored 1-9 that can be used on a certain one of the five planets. You use these to conquer said planets; put up a card or a combination of cards higher than the score occupying the planet, and you successfully conquer it. The defeated army then become civilians, adding a passive 'score' to the planet that makes the world more valuable over time. Once one player draws the Ceasefire card, every player gets one more turn, then the round ends. The score of all the armies and civilians are added up, and the person with the highest score (or highest score over a set number of rounds) wins. The concept is pretty simple. And at first, I liked it! It was easy to understand and play and the rounds go by relatively quickly. However, the more I played, the more I became acutely aw…

A fast paced card version of Risk. Totally addictive!!!! I got the in real life version too.

My friend and I are huge fans of the Sots universe, so naturally we bought this to try it out. Plus my friend owns the physical card game. We ended up finding out how to skip each other's turns. 10/10 would laugh that hard again

You can skip somebody else's turn, 10/10

A "strategy" title with no real strategy. I was iffy anyway since most card game adaptations have disgusting reliance on random chance to win, but here it was especially bad. You won't really understand unless you play it, but it is very irritating to be sitting on big armies of one of the species but you can't reinforce their planet without a special card you may or may not draw. It's very annoying to actually have the biggest army only to lose it to a nuke card that someone may or may not draw. It makes my mouth froth thinking about when I have a decent number of army cards and a nuke, but the enemy has a shield card in play and I don't have a sabotage... There are too many hard counter situations that rely on pure chance card draws to counter for this to warrant any semblance of being a strategy game. It's chance, pure and simple, and what may work in a tabletop setting among friends doesn't sit right with me online. I'm not having fun... There is something more, though. Kerberos? Let's chat... Did you really need to crib Sword of the Stars' music for this game? I like SotS' music, honest, but if you're going to "borrow" from your glory days, could you at least let the wh…

Love it! cool graphics explosions and different world to explore! One of my favorite!