Distant Worlds: Universe

Distant Worlds: Universe

3.0
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Разработчик: Code Force

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Описание

The Universe is Yours!
Distant Worlds: Universe is the newest chapter of this critically acclaimed sci-fi series, adding incredible new features and an exciting new storyline.  Universe is also the ultimate collector’s edition, the first time all previous Distant Worlds releases have been included in one package, along with an updated manual and greatly expanded modding support.  

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.  

Vast galaxies are made to order: up to 1400 star systems, with up to 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Galaxies are so deep, fun and immersive that you won’t want to finish the game.  Build, expand and improve your empire while playing through one of the storylines, with victory conditions or in an open-ended sandbox mode.

Each galaxy is packed with life and activity. Encounter other empires, independent alien colonies, traders, pirates and space monsters. Explore star systems, asteroid fields, gas clouds, supernovae, galactic storms and black holes. Discover evidence of civilizations long since past, uncovering secrets about the galaxy's troubled history...

Best of all, you can play the game your way: enjoy a quick, intense game in a crowded sector of space or take your time in an epic game spread across a vast galaxy! 

Distant Worlds: Universe contains all of the following:


Features:

  • Truly Epic-Scale Galaxies: play in galaxies with up to 1400 star systems and 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Vast nebula clouds spiral out from the galactic core, shaping the distribution of star clusters in the galaxy
  • Private Enterprise: the private citizens of your empire automatically take care of mundane tasks like mining resources, transporting cargo, migration between colonies, tourism and much more. This frees you from micro-management and instead allows you to focus on a macro-scale
  • Diplomacy: interact with other empires, discussing treaties, making trade offers or just giving them a piece of your mind. Talk to pirate factions, tapping into their underground information, or paying them to do your dirty work for you...
  • Choose your Playstyle: Start with a single planet and sub-light ships, or as an established space-faring civilization with warp drives.  Play as a Standard empire or as a Pirate faction, with many adjustable victory conditions and gameplay choices depending on your actions.
  • Intelligent Automation: automate the various tasks in your empire, so that you can focus on the areas that you enjoy most. Or have your advisors make suggestions in different areas like colonization, defence or diplomacy – helping you learn the best tactics and strategies
  • Explore: explore the vast galaxy, discovering valuable resources, potential colonies for your empire and making contact with other empires. Uncover secrets that lift the veil on the galaxy’s mysterious past...
  • Colonize: send out colony ships to found new worlds for your empire. Develop your new colonies by keeping them well-supplied with a steady stream of valuable resources
  • Defend: patrol the outlying areas of your empire to protect from raiding pirates or dangerous space monsters. Construct defensive bases at your colonies. Build up your fleets to defend against enemy empires. Recruit troops to invade enemy colonies and conquer the galaxy!
  • Espionage: covertly seek out information about other empires, or even disrupt their progress with acts of sabotage
  • Research: develop new technologies for use in building your own unique ships and star bases
  • Characters:  including Leaders, Admirals, Generals, Ambassadors, Governors, Agents and Scientists, all with defined skills and traits and the opportunity to advance and improve
  • Design and Build: A very flexible system allows you to design and build the ships and star bases in your empire. Construct mighty military ships ranging from escorts to carriers and dreadnoughts at your space ports, or build mining stations, research installations or secret monitoring facilities at remote locations throughout the galaxy
  • Built-in Game Editor: fine-tune your own galaxy, adding or removing star systems, planets, asteroid fields, ships, star bases, space monsters or anything else. Modify the attributes of any empire in your game
  • Extensive Help: exhaustive, built-in, context-sensitive help is always only a single key-press away. Press F1 at any time for a detailed explanation of the current game screen, your currently selected item, etc
  • Tutorials: in-game tutorials familiarize you with all of the game elements and tools

New to Universe!

  • The entire Distant Worlds series in one package! Universe includes the Original Distant Worlds, Return of the Shakturi, Legends, Shadows and the new Universe expansion!
  • Comprehensive Modding and Customization Support: Allows adding/removing/changing most items: resources (including new colony-manufactured resources), ship components, planetary facilities and wonders, fighter designs, alien races and race families, diplomatic dialog, empire policy, custom characters, ship and base design templates, governments, plagues, research tech trees and more
    • Can customize most of the images used in the game: ships and bases, fighters, alien races, planetary facilities and wonders, characters, troops, components, resources, ancient ruins, planets, stars, asteroids, animated in-game effects and more
    • Use a previously saved and editor-customized game as a map for a new game (instead of generating a new galaxy)
    • Powerful new event system accessible from a considerably-upgraded Game Editor. Set up your own storyline in a custom map with triggered events and custom victory conditions
    • Add story triggers on specific in-game objects or events, executing one or more actions on other in-game objects (either immediately or delayed)
    • Can replace most of the user interface icons and sound effects
    • Add your own custom help files to the in-game Galactopedia
    • Switch between different customization sets with a couple of mouse clicks from the main game menu
    • Comprehensive 99-page Modding Guide that outlines how to make Mods and explains all of the settings in detail
  • A new official storyline built using the new modding capabilities, covering the first war between the Freedom Alliance and the Shaktur Axis, in which you have access to the tech required to build your own planet destroyers, establish the Ancient Guardians and research and deploy the Xaraktor virus.
 

 

Поддерживаемые языки: english

Системные требования

Windows

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10
  • Processor: Pentium 4 @1.5 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: minimum 1024 x 768 resolution, 32 bit
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible
  • Additional Notes: Requires Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer
Recommended:
  • OS *: Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 (64-bit), 10
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU @ 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: minimum 1024 x 768 resolution, 32 bit
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible
  • Additional Notes: Requires Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer

Отзывы пользователей

Рекомендую 18.03.2025 21:01
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The best game experience with Expansion Mod + DWUR

Время в игре: 12258 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 25.02.2025 22:17
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I cannot get this game to work. I checked all the boxes on the support tab and searched the web for fixes. It opens in task manager but then fails. Please comment if you can help

Время в игре: 46 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 22.02.2025 09:33
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Well what can I say. I had this game in my library for a couple of years reluctant to start playing as it seemed overwhelming. Boy was I wrong and wish I'd started earlier. Everything can be adjusted to your playstyle. Heck you can even automate everything and just explore the galaxy Star Trek style.

To get the game to run on win 11 just go to the setup ini file and change the intro video to 0 rather than 1 so that it skips the video at the start avoiding a crash.

Время в игре: 435 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 09.02.2025 21:08
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For all those who encounter a crash on startup: try editing startup.ini in the game folder. Change "Play Movie 1" to "Play Movie 0".

After putting more than 750 hours into this game over more than 10 years, I am finally ready to write a review.

This is it. The space 4x strategy game that I keep coming back to among all the others. I have played Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, Masters of Orion, StarDrive, Endless Space, even space 4x games as far back as Spaceward Ho! and Stars!, which probably gives away my age. I've even played through Distant Worlds 2 (though not since some major updates were made). None of them keep me coming back time and again like Distant Worlds Universe.

The graphics are 2D, and fairly simple by today's standards. The UI is complex and often difficult to understand. The learning curve is very steep. Planet management is a bit lighter and less involved than other space 4X games. With such a huge barrier for new players, why then do I put it at my #1 spot? I have a lot of reasons.

Grand Scale: Galaxies can have up to 1500 stars, each with their own system of planets, asteroid fields, resources, ancient artifacts, ruins, and the occasional primitive civilization. Sprinkled between those stars are anomalies, space monsters, abandoned star bases, derelict ships (which you can repair or salvage for research), a rich history of a galactic war that happened centuries ago, and a looming threat of the return of a savage species.

Control Customization: You can take full control and micromanage every little detail throughout the game. Or, you can handle a single starship flying around the galaxy while the AI handles everything else in your empire. Or anything in between.

Heroes: Leader (one per faction), ship captains, fleet admirals, planet governors, scientists, spies, ambassadors. Each with their own set of perks and drawbacks. Some scientists might be very skilled in one or more areas of research, but might also be a foreign spy, which gives other factions a much greater chance of stealing research from you. A fleet admiral might be an excellent tactician, leading to greater targeting accuracy and damage, but might also be a drunkard, leading to slower hyper drive speed and greater ship maintenance costs.

Espionage: Distant Worlds Universe has the most involved, compelling, and choice-rich espionage system of any space 4X I've played. Each mission requires that you send one of your hero spies (no nameless, disposable spies in this game!), and a mission failure is a very real loss--if your spy is captured, he's gone for good, along with all of the work you've put into carefully developing his skills. And if your last spy is lost, then you are unable to perform any espionage missions until a new agent appears!

Ship Design: I've seen many different ship designers in space 4x games. Some are decent, some feel really dumbed-down (I'm looking at YOU, Endless Space!). But Distant Worlds and StarDrive have by far my favorite ship design mechanics. You can design a ship literally any way you want! You can create a flying fuel cell with barely enough hull to protect the crew from the void of space, designed to speed out and scout distant areas while still making it back with any fuel to spare. You can create colony ships with double capacity to give you a head-start in a new colony. How about a missile boat that deliberately stays at long range to pelt enemies with a shower of long-range missiles? (Yes, you can give each ship class specific directives on how to behave when encountering enemies.)

Design star bases, construction platforms, research facilities, resort hotels (yes, your people need entertainment too!), mining outposts, deep space observatories (for spying on enemy factions or getting early-warning notice when enemy fleets are inbound), and orbital defense platforms to help protect your colonies from surprise invasions. Just like with ship design, base design is wide open as to what components you want to put into each base type.

Scientific Research: There are three entirely different research sections: Weapons/Armor/Tactics, Energy/Construction, and High Tech/Science. You can conduct one research project from each of them simultaneously. The speed at which they are researched depends on the size of your population, along with the specific skills of your scientist heroes and how much research "capacity" you have constructed (in the form of research facilities).

Exploration: With a vast galaxy, limited fuel, and warp speed requiring research before use, in the early game just exploring your own starting solar system is exciting, as you discover what resources are available and try to find that oh-so-elusive "warp field precursors" data left on one of your system's planets by the few survivors of a centuries-old galactic war. Early research advancements in fuel capacity, engine thrust, and directional thrust are critical in how efficiently you explore and exploit the resources available in your home system. By the time you are ready to leave the cradle and travel to nearby stars, exploration starts all over again with your first barely warp-capable scouts travelling and discovering critical fuel-resources in order to extend your empire's reach. In fact, exploration is viable and fun throughout the early- and mid-game, and by the time you hit end-game, your scout ships' purposes shift to being deep-space scanners to be able to see through the fog of war.

I could go on: Race variety. Diplomacy. Resource mining/management. Planet-destroying super weapons. Fuel management. Race-unique win conditions.

This game is a dream for those who love this genre. Buy this game. Have the patience and courage to get past the obtuse user interface and complex game mechanics, and you will find a gem of a game where I, after more than a decade of play later, am still learning new things.

Время в игре: 46128 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 25.01.2025 05:57
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game does not launhc on windows 11, tried lots of supposed fixes

Время в игре: 424 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 23.01.2025 02:06
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Looks like something I would enjoy, but takes a ton of time to learn, at least I would think, to play as in-depth as I would like. Game ran perfectly, despite being on modern hardware, and performed well... just seems to be one hell of a micro management game (which I typically enjoy) with tons of automation, partially or fully, which turn it into more of a macro game. Gives the feel of Starsector, but in a more basic sense, as attacks appear to be more HP based instead of location based, and stats and systems are items (could be wrong, just saw all the items my ship had, like cannons, sub-systems, etc.); Figured I would like it, and likely buy it again, so I refunded it for now to buy something that's much more basic and helps me to not focus too much on the death of my best friend...

Время в игре: 12 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 16.01.2025 21:13
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Lots of fun.

Время в игре: 354 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 06.01.2025 00:33
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wont work, makes you figure out how to trouble shoot the game not worth the money if i have to do all the work.

Время в игре: 5 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 15.12.2024 18:21
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Original approach to 4x genre. You can automate almost everything and still it is satisfying to play.

Время в игре: 1228 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 30.11.2024 16:12
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“Distant Worlds: Universe is my favourite space strategy game. Not my favourite space strategy game released this week and not my favourite space strategy game released this year. It’s the definitive version of the best space strategy game I’ve ever played and I want to share the excitement with everyone”. Rock Paper Shotgun.

Probably. However I will never know since the game is not launching. There exists a forum post with tips to get this to run, but none of those work. This game has been dropped from support so you are on your own.

Such a shame.

Время в игре: 13 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 20.11.2024 01:02
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plays better than dw2 but dw2 looks better but I am having a blast exploring the cosmos in 2d

Время в игре: 1719 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 28.10.2024 20:22
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No longer works, disappointed with lack of support or updates by devs for win10 and beyond, just a list of things customers (who bought the game) should do on their own - basically, you're on your own if you bought this game...

probably best to avoid distant worlds 2, it's probably going to be a similar disaster for people who purchase the game!

Время в игре: 7 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 27.10.2024 03:11
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Game was great but doesn't work anymore. There are some tips in the community to get it going but none of it worked for me. Avoid unless you want to spend hours fucking with settings and ultimately go nowhere.

Время в игре: 4873 ч. Куплено в Steam
Рекомендую 25.09.2024 03:14
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nice game to play

Время в игре: 14802 ч. Куплено в Steam
Не рекомендую 18.09.2024 13:16
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This game will not launch. And is apparently a known problem. There is a pinned forum post with suggestions to get this to run, but the steps are old and several mentioned folder locations that don't even exist on a new game install. Windows 11 Pro, less than a year old... Why do I need to jump through so many hoops to get this to work? I'm a fan of quite a few Slitherine games, but this one? Nope, uninstalling and requesting a refund.

Время в игре: 73 ч. Куплено в Steam

Дополнительная информация

Разработчик Code Force
Платформы Windows
Ограничение возраста Нет
Дата релиза 03.04.2025
Metacritic 81
Отзывы пользователей 72% положительных (1128)

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Жанры

Strategy Simulation

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