Distant Worlds

4X grand strategy to rival MOO2, great automation options and overall a game of epic proportions within a living galaxy

User Rating: 9 | Distant Worlds PC

By trakerman | Review Date: June 26, 2010

Now that it has been patched to 1.0.5.6, And most of the earlier teething problems sorted this game has the potential to rein with MOO2 as a brilliant and absorbing 4X game.
You can choose to automate almost everything or nothing, The IA works well, the ship designing is great although more variety in offensive and defensive weapons would be better.
The diplomacy could be expanded on a bit, but overall this is a classic 4X grand strategy game in the making.
This is a real time but pausable game If you like galactic scale grand strategy games that can take weeks to play then this is the game for you.
You control the state (ie Military, diplomacy, colonizing, spaceports, and research while the private sector pays you taxes while doing its own thing in its own time, sending out freight, gathering resources etc.
Beautiful.

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