Sid Meier's Starships 12+
2K
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- $4.99
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Description
Take command of a fleet of powerful starships in this adventure-driven strategy game from legendary designer Sid Meier. Travel to new worlds, completing missions to help save and protect the planets and their people from dangerous Space Pirates, to powerful Marauders and other hostile factions. Build a planetary federation as you strengthen your fleet and secure your homeworld as you attempt to preserve intergalactic peace and your vision of humanity. Set in the universe of Civilization: Beyond Earth after the age of the Seeding, Sid Meier’s Starships offers sci-fi/strategy fans a full stand-alone game experience that also features cross-connectivity with Beyond Earth, expanding the depth of both games. See if you have what it takes to rule the universe!
• Tactical Space Combat: Encounter unique tactical challenges in every mission, with dynamically generated maps, victory conditions, and foes.
• Fully Customizable Starships: Create an armada that fits your tactical plan with modular spaceship design.
• Diplomacy, Strategy, and Exploration: Expand the influence of your Federation and gain the trust of the citizens of new planets. Use the unique abilities of the each planet to enhance your fleet and Federation, and keep your opponents in check. Build improvements on worlds to increase the capabilities and resources of your Federation.
• A Galaxy Of Adventure: Explore the galaxy as you lead your fleet to distant worlds and complete missions to help the citizens of these planets. Fight pirates, protect colony ships, destroy rogue AI, and more.
• Multiple Paths To Victory: Will you win by conquering the greatest threat to the galaxy? Or will you unite a plurality of worlds in your Federation? Perhaps you will lead your people to push the frontiers of science. Each choice you make carries consequences on your path to victory.
What’s New
Version 1.3
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
AI’s will play by player chosen constrained victory rules.
Players will now start with one ship on impossible difficulty.
Megabot strength has been increased.
Wonder Victory now requires 9 wonders.
AI will now attempt more missions per turn on Impossible difficulty .
AI will now use stealth more often.
The Negotiate button on the bridge view is now named “Negotiate”.
Fixed the damage meter in the Fleet Overview when ship need repair.
The How to Play screen now states that a population victory is but one way to win the game.
And other minor bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Needs polish
It’s a good game but needs to be optimised for ipad, as others have said the interface is slow and clunky so the battles which are in every sense repetitive become painfully tiresome rather than enjoyable.
Need an auto battle button for the small conflicts which otherwise take 20 plus minutes to play out and achieve very little towards your standings.
The AI could use some work too, they either offer no resistance or steamroll you into oblivion.
Some would argue that if you get it cheap it’s worth it and they are probably right but while the mechanics are so clunky I rate it’s long term playability zero.
Lacks depth
Campaign game plays through in about one hour. There is some replayability to be had by trying out the different factions but even this gets old very quickly.
This game is good but desperately needs some added depth to keep you playing or you forking out the asking price for about one or two hours of play time.
Has massive potential so I hope the extra depth is added soon.
Abysmally slow game play
It's nice to look at but this is overall a very expensive and dull game. Each turn is so slow, so little seems to happen. Every battle is a replay of the previous one, the in game movement is just clunky and slow.
It takes ages to get anywhere or do anything in the game before you have to end the turn because you have a fatigued crew.
Honesty it's just too dull for $18
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Information
- Seller
- 2K, INC.
- Size
- 568.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Copyright
- © 2015 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.