Re: Distant Worlds: Universe
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 8:57 pm
If you're a big 4x fan, yeah this is a great game. It's far from perfect (7 year old indie game) and a bit overpriced, but there is still hours of entertainment that can be gotten from this. The strategy layer in particular I enjoyed, being able to completely customize your fleet loadouts down to the ship with the only limitations being what your tech can support and what your economy can fund. Building tons of outposts and border stations along nebulas between myself and which ever neighbor is getting ballsy enough to break treaties with me, bribing his rivals into starting a war with him to turn his attention elsewhere and decades later my fleets raining nuclear fires of purification to turn his homeworld into a smoldering ruin.
The game gets a lot of comparisons to Stellaris these days, given their similiar themes yet different approaches to the same problems. I like both games, and generally prefer DW:U over Stel but the lack of a community for DW:U, steep learning curve and UI that makes little sense until you're 20+ hours into, I can see why most people new to the genre are going to stellaris for their fun. Hopefully DW2 (if it even comes out, devs said they started on it over a year ago) learns lessons from both games and makes a good hybrid with a more diverse tech tree, better planetary combat options and more diverse cast of sentient life that can be found in the galaxy and custom races.
The game gets a lot of comparisons to Stellaris these days, given their similiar themes yet different approaches to the same problems. I like both games, and generally prefer DW:U over Stel but the lack of a community for DW:U, steep learning curve and UI that makes little sense until you're 20+ hours into, I can see why most people new to the genre are going to stellaris for their fun. Hopefully DW2 (if it even comes out, devs said they started on it over a year ago) learns lessons from both games and makes a good hybrid with a more diverse tech tree, better planetary combat options and more diverse cast of sentient life that can be found in the galaxy and custom races.