Heathen Engineering's Terran
Heathen Engineering · 2019 · Indie, Strategy, Action, Space, Sci-fi
PC
7 user reviews14% · 7 📈 Making a comeback 30%
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About Heathen Engineering's Terran
Galactic Strategy | Tactics | Action
Found a Terran government, corporation or armada and compete for influence and control over the galaxy’s resources in Heathen Engineering’s Terran.
Grand strategy meets real-time tactical battles meets 3rd person space shooter action. 
Manage your empire across thousands of stars developing systems, stations and fleets to spread your influence across the galaxy.
Take command of battles issuing orders and assigning targets to orchestrate the downfall of your competition.
Lead your battle groups from the front as you take the helm of powerful warships and turn the tide against impossible odds.Features
- Strategy + Tactic + Action:
4X meets RTS meets 3rd person big ship space combat; manage resources and build an empire on the strategy map to fuel your growth, issue orders to your battlegroups in combat to control the flow of battle and take direct control of powerful warships to turn the tide in your favour. - Fleet Combat:
In combat you take the role of battle commander and warship pilot. Issue orders to your battlegroups in 'Command mode', an RTS style view or switch to 3rd person view to take direct control of any warship in your fleet. - Organization Types:
Choose from one of three organization classes to start your empire, each with its own unique perks and unique origin on the progression grid. - Gar Capital Ships:
Choose a powerful Gar capital ship to serve as the seat of power in your organization and a symbol of your empire. Each Gar has a set of 5 unique abilities and related research options available. Initially 3 Gar are available to choose from with more to come. - Research Technologies:
As your empire grows you will unlock new technologies and enhance your efficiency and capacity by researching new tech for planet improvements, ship design and Gar abilities. - Influence:
Gain influence by developing your Science, Economy, Industry and Military power. Watch nearby systems fall under your control as your influence spreads across the galaxy. - Citadels and Stations:
Build powerful citadels and space stations to hold back the rising influence of your competition and provide defence from invasion. - Massive Galaxy:
Expand your empire across a massive procedural galaxy containing thousands of star systems and tens of thousands of worlds.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players overwhelmingly criticize this game as incomplete and poorly executed, describing it as essentially a ship designer with minimal actual gameplay content and a weak single starter mission. Common complaints include a thin tech tree with only three branches, limited fleet customization options, dumb AI, frequent bugs and hangs, inadequate tutorials, and excessive micromanagement. While a few players note that the flagship mechanic adds some interesting dynamics and appreciate its attempt to deviate from standard 4X formulas, these positives are vastly outweighed by frustration over the $4
Do. Not. Buy. This. I bought this game a few years back based on the promise it would get better. Fast forward several years and it's still essentially just a ship designer and a single starter mission, and not even a good one. I recommend you look into the "X" games (aside from XRebirth) to get your fix of this sort of game. The newer ones aren't much more expensive than this effing mess and the older ones are still much better, complete, and cheaper than said mess.77 found this helpful
DON’T MAKE EYE CONTACT! TL;DR: $40 for this? You make me laugh! REFUNDED! (Or at least tried, but I am over time limit of course) A little more detail: + micromanaging for planets. No such thing! + Gar “flagship” adds interesting dynamic. +/- System defense mechanic marred by micromanagement. ---- (yes that is 4 minuses) AI is dumb. - Limited tutorial. --/+ Not a true 4x, but maybe that is a good way to shake up the usual formula. - Plenty more shown below. I love to read a wall of text!: It is hard not to look at a game and make other comparisons to other experiences you have had with past games. I am going to try to give an opinion from my own perspective. You may like what I do not and you may not like what I do. I myself have a long history of strategy gaming (both board and computer) and very much enjoy 4x games. Sci-Fi has always been my absolute love for these games and Spaceward Ho! was the first I played in this genre that led to playing other games such as the Master of Orion series, the Space Empires series, Emperor of the Fading Sun, Stars!, Ascendancy, Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizatons series, Endless Space, StarDrive and Stellaris. So yes,…39 found this helpful
Crap.9 found this helpful
[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/][b]Like this Review? Follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more![/b][/url][/quote] Once the game loads you’ll be taken to the main menu screen; here in the left top corner you’ll find Continue (if already have a saved game), New Campaign, Load Campaign, Skirmish, Options, Credits and Exit. On the top right corner in the drop-down box there’s User Guide, Video Walkthrough, Community Hub, Heathen Support, Translation Tool. There are also some Audio Controls (Master, Music, Interface and Environment volume sliders), these can also be found in the game’s options. Upon starting a new campaign you’ll be taken to a screen where you’ll be able to customise your game profile. Here you’ll be able to create a two-tier logo from various patterns and icons, changing colours to your liking. Further down the screen is Gar Design. There are three types of Gars to choose from: Valkyrie, Theseus and Fallen, each with its own abilities (five each in total). For example, The Fallen has Doom (which can instantly destroy a target), The Theseus has Children of Poseidon (which can terraform a planet in to an ocean world), and Va…8 found this helpful
This is one of the worst games I've ever played. Complete waste of money. It should be withdrawn from the market until it is more than a shell of a game. The tech tree is extremely thin. Only 3 branches, and a depth of 5-10 in each of the sub elements. Dull. The ability to customise fleets is poor, limited to the balance of 6 standard ship classes from corvette to dread. No ability to customise ships, just general upgrades to attack/defence/speed/cost as one of the 3 tech tree branches. It's very buggy. Frequently, the game hangs and sometimes you can recover by restarting, but not always.7 found this helpful
I still don't know what I bought.3 found this helpful
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