Ancient Space
CreativeForge Games · 2014 · Strategy, Space, RTS, Sci-fi, Singleplayer
PC
Mixed42% · 267
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About Ancient Space
✦ AI summary
Command a fleet of upgradeable starships through real-time tactical battles as you search for a lost expedition across the darkest corners of space. Build your forces, choose your officers, and decide your approach—whether defense, offense, or covert ops—all while uncovering secrets and unraveling a story voiced by sci-fi legends that explores what lies beyond humanity's reach.
Venture deep into space to uncover secrets and find a lost expedition!
Ancient Space features real time strategic starship battles that encourages tactical maneuvering. In time honored RTS tradition, you build and upgrade your fleet as you complete mission objectives and gather resources which allow you to progress further into the game. Chart your approach – from defense to offense and everything in between such as escort and stealth missions.
Embark and explore the darkest recesses of space in this tale of strategic resource management and engrossing interstellar warfare.
Main features:
A stellar cast: The game is voiced by fan-favorites from much loved sci-fi movies and television shows such as Star Trek: Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.
Deep space exploration: Each mission advances the plot further and introduces a new area of space being explored with secrets to discover and dangers to react to.
Command your fleet: Build, maintain and strategically use a multitude of ship types to deploy into battle, each with distinct tactical uses during grand strategic space warfare as you square off against notorious pirates and mysterious aliens.
Upgradeable progression: Your units can be upgraded. Various upgrades to player ships are applied throughout the campaign. You decide what to enhance and what to leave behind.
Choose your crew: Before each mission, choose up to three officers with special abilities that aid your progress through the missions. Recruit more crew members along your journey.
An engrossing campaign: The single player campaign comes with a pulsating story that follows epic battles and tackles philosophical questions about humanity and science whilst posing the question – what lies beyond?
Ancient Space features real time strategic starship battles that encourages tactical maneuvering. In time honored RTS tradition, you build and upgrade your fleet as you complete mission objectives and gather resources which allow you to progress further into the game. Chart your approach – from defense to offense and everything in between such as escort and stealth missions.
Embark and explore the darkest recesses of space in this tale of strategic resource management and engrossing interstellar warfare.
Main features:
A stellar cast: The game is voiced by fan-favorites from much loved sci-fi movies and television shows such as Star Trek: Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.
Deep space exploration: Each mission advances the plot further and introduces a new area of space being explored with secrets to discover and dangers to react to.
Command your fleet: Build, maintain and strategically use a multitude of ship types to deploy into battle, each with distinct tactical uses during grand strategic space warfare as you square off against notorious pirates and mysterious aliens.
Upgradeable progression: Your units can be upgraded. Various upgrades to player ships are applied throughout the campaign. You decide what to enhance and what to leave behind.
Choose your crew: Before each mission, choose up to three officers with special abilities that aid your progress through the missions. Recruit more crew members along your journey.
An engrossing campaign: The single player campaign comes with a pulsating story that follows epic battles and tackles philosophical questions about humanity and science whilst posing the question – what lies beyond?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Boring.2 found this helpful
You know what they say - only Normal difficulty is HARDCORE difficulty. Want to know the True game - go hard. And thats where game turns into micro-rng chaos. Either you baby-sitting every little unit and barely random through - or entire fleet wiped in 5 sec timeframe. Another issue is UI scaling. Not looking good in 4k. Best way - unit behave orders from Homeworld 2. Here - more like downgraded hegemony. Overall - 40% for hardcore game joy. Almost good to play. Skirmish may be enjoyable.
4
Bottom line: not enjoyable. It would seem that the bones of a good game are here, but the execution fails to step up to the task. Just playing the game is difficult, from pathfinding of individual units, to selection of groups and units, to making sense of the HUD and menus. This difficulty seems a result of poor design, rather than challenges with hardware or even simply shifting perspective on the battlefield. What's more is the games story and characters do not seem to help provide the player with a reason to really enjoy even the first parts of the game; there is almost no context provided for the setting and world, and the initial presentation of characters lacks spark.
Temu-Homeworld
Good game. Crashes sometimes. Autosave doesn't work well.
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