Sid Meier's Starships 12+
2K
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- $12.99
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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 1.4
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
Does need a bug update.
The reason for this is that on exiting it in El Capitan, it says that it quit unexpectedly. I haven’t encountered the other bugs, but I’m sure they exist. Good solid game otherwise.
Yes, it needs an bug fix update
Pretty fun game, the sort of turn based game I like, but full of bugs. Crashes lots on my Late 2012 27” iMac (32GB RAM, SSD, 10.10.2) during gameplay, so I have to save all the time. During one game all the other AI players started taking their turns moving around the map taking planets and fighting for about 5 rounds without letting me play. When they were finally done, I was way behind getting planets and I had tons of resources sitting in my coffers from my planets. For the harder levels, I think the gameplay is unfairly designed as AI ships with the exact same armour and weapons as I will have a laser hit of 465 whereas I will only hit with 245. Also they can shoot through all sorts of asteroids and debris and hit my ship but when I try and return fire it says that my path to the AI ship is blocked and I can’t shoot at it. There must be a better way of making the game harder without just giving the AI ships “supernatural” powers.
I do like the theme of the game and I like the camera viewpoints from the weapon’s point of view. The game is fun and can chew up lots of time. If you don’t mind the bugs and the limited options, this game is fun and has great potential. Myself, I hope they come out with patches soon and it would be nice to get the features I mentioned.
This review is for the original version, I will update it when I play the new version 1.4
Boring
Boring and repetitiive…don’t waste your money. Not one of Sid’s better games.
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Information
- Seller
- 2K, INC.
- Size
- 627 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.9 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
- Copyright
- © 2015 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Price
- $12.99
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.