Galactic Empire

[b] **NOTE:** This review is part of my steam curator review and is the extended version. Check my steam curator page at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39607348-Random-Game-Reviews-by-Labprofess/ . Follow appreciated! [/b] --- I'm going to be honest with you, before I played this game I never really understood grand strategy games. They used to be all over the steam store front pages. At Least for me. And I always wondered what exactly they were. Is a turn based game like a card game you play against a computer? Because that would get boring quickly. With this mindset I have started to ignore them whenever they came across me. Until I got the opportunity to review this game. The developer was nice enough to ask me if I was interested to try it out, so I took my chances, and I'm happy I did. Turn based games are nothing like I imagined them to be, quite the opposite, they are very fun! Essentially you have a turn, but the moment you're done you “continue” on to your next turn, there's no waiting involved. With this turn-based game, you are leading an empire in outer space doing typical leader things: feed your people, develop your technology and go to war. A classic. Th…

I will probably not refund a game to help this small developer, but eh, I hoped for more. After 45 minutes I am still stuck in level 0 planet building, fighting with menus and without deeper understanding how much tritium should I expect to be needed later. Also those temperatures going crazy, I also assigned random people left right up and down... they ate up all my influence and I cannot cancel or move decision back without reloading, which is a bit irritating in game where all things are turn based and click based. You can feel that game was made with vision what developer feels is fun and great, but there is 0 help with interface and information. You have to struggle badly without understanding results of your decisions a lot. I am not sure how many hours later I can get to the card game part and if it will be more fun. 5/10, game generally works and is okayish, just not fun. One of achievements is getting 1000 resources of one type, which is not that hard to do, and 33% of people who played this game got so far. Advanced start with level 1 planet pre-built, so you can start colonizing and conquering would probably help this game. For explanations, Gearcity would be a g…

Find other reviews on [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/34183438/] MY CURATOR PAGE [/url] Galactic Empire is a hand-drawn, turn-based space empire management game where you slowly build resources and research technologies to grow your empire from a fledgling group of explorers and engineers to a sprawling civilization across the stars. Galactic Empire begins with a simple enough interface and only a handful of things to manage but as your civilization grows it quickly becomes more involved and complex, forcing you to prioritize certain technologies while trying to defend your civilization from invaders. This eventually leads you to constructing your own ships to explore the Galaxy and defeat your opponents. The ships can be modified individually, they have equipment slots allowing you to tweak them to your playstyle. The game features a couple classes and several different starting planets as well as a collection of win conditions to choose from, allowing each playthrough to be customized to your liking. These have a surprising amount of impact over the course of your playthrough, allowing you to streamline techs and buildings to cater to your playstyle. The journal is a…

[h2]Galactic Empire[/h2] [h1]Strategy Game Moment[/h1] Anyone who has been following my reviews for a while would obviously know that I absolutely despise any kind of Strategy games. Despite that, I always have to play and review a few of them. Tough life indeed. Don’t worry, I ensure to present an unbiased and open-hearted review. So yeah, let’s dive right into the review. [h1]About This Game [/h1] [h2]Storyline [/h2] I’m not quite sure if this game actually has a solid storyline. From what I experienced, the entire game revolves around the following plot: [code]You take on the role of a Commander on whom the fate of the entire universe lies upon. Will you be successful in managing and growing your universe or will you succumb to the challenges that lie ahead?[/code] As you can see, it’s kinda a very basic plot that actually works since everything depends on the gameplay. [h2]Gameplay Mechanics[/h2] This is a turn-based space empire management game with an engaging gameplay experience. Players can begin with a simple interface and progressively expand their empire into a large civilization through resource management and technological improvements. The interface becomes m…

Technology tree, buildings, various resources. Deep gameplay

Interesting resource management game. You increase resource income by building mines/excavations, unlocking personal skills, defeating enemy ships and looting them, exploring the planet, doing research, etc. Each turn you can build at most 1 buildings so this and resource gains are slowing down your expansion. You can increase population to get extra income but they require food so you need to provide that too, if you have excess of food you can improve how much income the population gives you so this also becomes a separate loop for balancing. After a certain point enemies start invading and looting you. It's not that bad, they give you some time to recover and improve and after you find out how to defeat them they give you an extra resource pool you can loot every few turns for more income. There is a galaxy to conquer but I didn't get there yet. The problem is there seems to be some bugs with resource gains and I am not sure if developer is still working on the game to fix them. They don't seem to be critical as even if there are some issues with resource gains you can still progress if you don't look into the details and don't stress out that you don't get as much a…