Armada 2526 Gold Edition
Ntronium Games · 2013 · Strategy, Indie, 4X, Turn-Based Strategy, Space
PC
Mixed68% · 9066Metacritic
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About Armada 2526 Gold Edition
✦ AI summary
Lead one of 18 alien races in this streamlined 4X strategy game where you'll manage colonies, research tech, and wage real-time 3D space battles across a customizable galaxy. Unlike genre competitors, Armada 2526 emphasizes action and conquest over tedious micromanagement, letting you finish a full campaign in reasonable time while building a pan-galactic empire.
Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game.
Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions. Explore new star systems, where you may encounter tachyon storms, psychic plants, primitives or find abandoned alien technology. Diplomacy is of utter importance in being successful. Make pacts and alliances, make threats or ask for favours - and when the time is right, replace diplomacy by space combat and fight it out in real-time 3D.
The trade system lets you trade valuable commodities between both your own and alien worlds. Alien relics, rare minerals, tourists, or even natural anti-matter, your freighters will carry them all. Although the game is complex, and the possible strategies endless, powerful help and advisor features, help you get up to speed quickly. Unlike many games in this genre, Armada 2526 Gold Edition focuses on providing a game that can be finished in a reasonable time, and emphasizes battle and strategy over economic micro-management. All with one purpose: to emerge victorious and conquer the galaxy with your armada.
Key Features
- Turn based star map for fleets, colonies, research and diplomacy.
- Customizable map size and number of players. Map designer included.
- 18 animated alien races to play and battle against.
- Full featured diplomacy system.
- More than 150 technology items to research.
- Trade system plus espionage and special ops system.
- 3D Real-time battle system for fighting huge battles.
- More than a hundred beautifully crafted ship models.
- Multiplayer by LAN or PBEM
- Tough A.I. opponents.
- Includes the expansion Supernova !
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Don't let the hours fool you. I had to use compatibility shortcut so playtime doesn't reflect. It's probably hundreds of hours, including playing from years ago back in the day. This 4X game is a bit of an acquired taste. At glance, it looks "MOO2"-like but doesn't "feel" like that or other 4X conquer-the-galaxy games. It looks/feels clunky at times, like sort of mish-mashed together, like it was put through heck just to get it to work. Overall, the game has serious fun to be had, and with serious flaws that requiring sucking it up to accept. For starters, most of the screenshots show all sorts of "3D" ships, stations, ground forces battling. It's not even like that or that type of game. This is no Sins of a Solar Empire or Sword of the Stars, not even close! Rather, this is much closer the type of 4X like MOO2 (Master of Orion 2, for the uninitiated), Interstellar Genesis, or Stars in Shadow are. You'll spend 95% of the gameplay on the 2D map of space. I think there is only 1 screenshot that really shows that. Now while you have the traditional 4X galactic map, you don't see your "ships" on them. Rather, you see a side-ways "Dorito" type icon that represents you have a ship or …4 found this helpful
Armada 2526 Gold Edition is an ancient game from 2009. It's a whopping 15 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. This was a B grade ripoff of Master of Orion, intended to fill the very large deficit of galactic empire building 4X strategy games while everyone waited for Stellaris to show up. And there's some fantastic ideas here with deep and interesting mechanics for fleet building, planetary management and so on. The problem is that these great ideas weren't matched with great execution. The diplomacy in the game is an incomprehensible joke (then again, we've all been nuked by Ghandi out of the blue when playing Civ, haven't we?) The UX is clunky and dated, it's awkward and generally un-fun to play, but the real killer here is just how badly optimised the game is. It's also incredibly buggy, with unhandled…4 found this helpful
one of the best 4x strategy games ive ever played1 found this helpful
For space buffs and 4x game lovers, this one is a hidden gem. An older game that never really made it big, which is too bad. I keep a copy of this on my older systems and laptops as well because I can play it out and about without stressing the machine at all. One of those games you just have to have and play.1 found this helpful
It's old but it's alright.
Gameplay is clunky and extremely unbalanced. 10/10
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