Разработчик: Trese Brothers
Описание
This challenging civilization-building game expands upon the universe of the original Star Traders RPG. As the leader of a splinter group who have fallen behind the main fleet, you have no choice but to settle nearby habitable worlds, stake your claim and try to prosper.
Your forces will face hostile aliens at every turn and your fleets will do battle in a challenging tactical conflicts across the solar systems. As the waves of stellar conflict wash across your empire, you’ll face invasions, devastating planetary bombardments and need to exact the same on alien infestations to expand your empire.
Within your own imperium, you must manage your economy, political realm, and technological research. The squabbling factions vie for power, unable to lay old rivalries to rest. Only your deft political maneuvering can build treaties and harmony over discord and war. From the helm, you must also construct a mighty economy, one capable of surviving the devastation of war and the attacks of political adversaries. A sprawling technology tree lies before you and your choice of technologies will determine the strategy of your galactic civilization. To survive, you’ll need to overcome some of these challenges, to succeed you must master them all.
- Grow a ragtag band of survivors into a new galactic empire.
- Protect your colonies of galactic refugees from alien attack.
- Employ devious political and economic machinations to expand your domain.
- Use spies and espionage to get the upperhand on your enemies.
- Research and build incredible new ships, weapons and technologies.
- Trade with a vast universe full of rich, dynamic characters.
- Explore the galaxy and uncover its many secrets.
- Multiple difficulty levels and customizable map sizes.
- Risk everything to rescue refugees and keep them safe.
Take control through the strategic use of spies, economics, politics, technology and advanced weaponry in the most engaging, expansive and intense turn-based sci-fi title. Rebuild the human civilization from the ashes of interstellar war to become the galaxy’s ultimate leader in Star Trader 4X Empires.
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The Star Traders Two Pack includes two copies of the game - one for you and one to gift to a friend. The second copy is at 50%! Share your strategies and epic war against the alien with a friend today!What's in the Box?
Star Traders: 4X Empires includes the full tech tree, and both the Alta Mesa and Hyperion Ship Skin Packs. This games has no chargeable DLC - all present and future content is included in the price.- Entire Tech tree
- All game maps
- All 6 classic Factions
- Additional 3 Great Clan Factions (Alta Mesa, Moklumne, Zenrin)
- All 9 ship design types
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP, Windos Vista, or Windows 7 / 8 / 10
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires MS Visual Studio C++ Runtime 2012 x86
Mac
- OS: OSX 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Linux
- Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires LibGLFW 2 (apt-get install libglfw2)
Отзывы пользователей
I REALLY wanted to like this game, but frankly, there are just way too many problems. This is a very simplified, streamlined 4X game. If you are a fan of stuff like the Civilization series or Stellaris, this game has nothing to offer for you. If you theoretically like the concept of a 4X game, but actually playing them feels overwhelming with the amount of things you have to manage, then this could be a nice offering. Cheap, streamlined, simple.
However, unfortunately, it is also half baked. The idea is that you have to establish an empire in space, with the help of three selected factions whose relationship you have to manage, as the admiral of the templar order, tasked to safeguard the new empire from xeno attacks. You win a map by eliminating all xeno presence. You can design your own ships, picking up the part from components you researched.
In actual practice, the factions have barely any identity, you manage everything like you would in any other 4X games and the faction diplomacy is just random rolls. At the start of every turn, you have a random chance of the relation between two factions changing randomly. How often this happens and whether the change is positive or negative is entirely up to RNG, with nothing you do impacting it (well, aside of difficulty level you pick). On higher difficulties you can lose outright by factions starting a trade war early, before you had time to research the diplomatic method to end that war, which plummets your trade to nothing, which can get you to a deficit, which mean you can't build anything, which means you can get more mines, so you can't ever get out of deficit or build ships, so the xeno overruns you. And again, whether this happens of not is entirely up to random chance.
The ship research stuff? Superfluous and pointless. All you get is extra stats. Some of these are outright unusable. For example, "boarding" attacks type cannot be put on any ship that can also use a heavy reactor. Which means the best boarding pod research is pointless, since you cannot put that, and the best boarding crew, with the best boarding assault action type on ANY ship configuration, because the best non-heavy reactor doesn't provide enough power to meet the requirements of this combination. The game also mentions gamma / theta, etc. damage types... but I have no idea what does such damage, if anything at all, since none of that is explained in game. The different weapons have no difference between themselves aside of damage numbers really.
Other issue: the "quality" stat on the planet decides how many buildings you can put up. If the planet is attacked and you opt to defend instead of evacuating and you lose that defense, quality is decreased by one, with NO way to regain it ever again. Problem? Even if you have way more defense points than it is required to protect everything, you still have a random chance of losing quality, which PERMANENTLY gimps that planet. Also, defense buildings cannot destroy attacking ship, so in turn, all defense buildings are completely useless and you’ll have to make ships to prevent the xeno reaching your planets.
There are multiple xeno types, but there's NO difference between them. All will have the exact same 4 ships: close range attack ship, missile ship, antiplanetary attack ship and colony ships. That's it. And all look the same, sound the same, do the same, regardless of xeno type. Presentation is also simple, there's genuinely less animation in this game than in Civilization. As in the first one, from 1991.
But honestly, what truly put the cherry on top of all that is that one of the achievements is impossible without cheating it in via Steam Achievement Manager. The Paragon Scientist achievement requires to research 200 techs in a single game. Problem is, there are faction specific researches, and you can ONLY have three factions in any game, not more. And with that in mind, the maximum amount of researchable techs in any game is 195. So, you either have to hack the game via cheat engine to unlock faction research for factions you don't play with, or just cheat the achievement in. That is inexcusably lazy, quite frankly, which shows me that this game was abandoned halfway through. Devs had an idea, half done it, realized it to be too much in scale for what resources they have available and just threw it out on Steam and moved on to the next thing.
As such, yes, this game is cheap, especially on sale, but frankly it doesn't worth your time, let alone your money. As a completionist, I put in about 50 times more time than it ever deserved at most.
easy
Great game! I played a lot on mobile. I would like to see a new version with a more modern look and a better UI.
"We have Master of Orion at home-"
Okay that joke doesn't actually work here as well as the others. While I love the Trese Brothers' games and have gone out of my way to buy all of them to support the team, this one I cannot so easily recommend.
While I personally got my money's worth out of it, I can also stomach jank, and boy is this one JANK... Imagine, dear reader, playing a 4X game like Civilization, now, you're playing 3 factions at once and trying to balance their relationships playing all roles of a team game. Weird but doable.
Now, imagine that... But you don't get a production queue. There's so much micro and fiddling in this game because of it. Thankfully it's turnbased so you don't have to worry about getting slapped while you take time to take your turn, but it goes from fun to tedious real quick.
Thankfully, all their other games are aces, and this is the one "mixed" standout of a very positive lot.
It's a below average 4x space game. Better off spending your money on one of the other many games like it. Game on!
Too much.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Trese Brothers |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 30.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 59% положительных (51) |