Fragile Allegiance

Did not play FA, however Utopia and then K240 on Amiga were clever games, deeply engrossing experiences (especially the latter one), pretty demanding with challenging AI. There are not many similar (setting, playability, lasting appeal) games out there and those that are, although with much better visuals are real underdogs to the mentioned titles.

I got this game packed in for free with another game, Gremlin's much better Hardwar, and I could never get into it despite a few attempts over the years. The game gives you no direction, no reason to do anything, you just build up your base hoping you'll find some point to it all. Then some asteroid comes out of nowhere, crashes in to yours and its game over. Maybe if you know all the secrets of the game it could be fun. Maybe if you had walkthrough or a friend telling exactly what to do or something. However, if you try to play the game as is, hoping to discover the game's secrets as the developers intended, with only the game's manual for guidance, then it's a boring, pointless and frustrating game. About all that I can say positive about this game is that's its unique There is no other real-time strategy game like it. No other developer saw this game and was inspired to copy from it.