SPACE BATTLE: Humanity

SPACE BATTLE: Humanity is a simplistic ripoff of the Flash/mobile app Galcon (copyright Ludum Dare 2006). Gameplay consists of swiping on your iPhone screen to make ships move from one node to another node. Move as many ships from as many nodes as you can to capture other nodes by having more numbers. Each node you capture generates more numbers itself. This is deepened slightly from the stock gameplay of Galcon by a simple upgrade mechanism that lets you build "better" numbers in your nodes... this adds very little to the shallow and overdone Galcon gameplay this game is unabashedly ripping off for profit. As for visuals, don't let the nice screenshots fool you, these are just static bitmap images with very low poly, poorly textured and unshaded polygons sitting on top. There's better looking Adobe Flash games from the 1990s. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will loo…

This game feels like a port of a tablet game like Tentacle Wars. There are (rather) long periods of time that you have to wait while the game switches from one scene to another-- which really has no excuse given how simple the game is. It's a buck, but it's a wasted buck given you can play the same game (with different graphics) on a tablet for free.

I'm not impressed with the first 20 minutes or so of gameplay. The interface is clunky and doesn't respond well, there are UI issues (I couldn't work out how to close out the galaxy map) and graphics are sub par on many flash games in the same vein.

Great game, with very good music. Has many hours worth of gameplay for the price. Only 1$! Really. It's a good well-developed game. I recommend. For any fan of Sci-Fi and space battle games. The visual style works well for the game and it has a really appealing design, especially the space looks very good.

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not bad. I wish there was a way to turn the music off or at least lower the music volume without also lowering the sound effects.