Master of Orion

not flawless, but it does what it sets out to do mostly well. every now and then i feel the urge to play some MoO and when i do i alternate between MoO2 and this one. the worst thing about it imo is the horrendously low mousewheel scroll speed in menus. i have to move the mouesheel down 19 times to scroll through all my 30 colonies in the empire view. it also doesn't matter if you scroll fast or slow, it always scrolls the same distance. tried changing the mouswheel scroll setting in windows, but it isn't connected to that, so made no difference. god, i hate this so much. still, a good game though.

Whoever rebuit this must have been a fan of the OG. They have preserved the original feel, but have polished MANY of the interface issues.

NuMoo has returned to its roots after MoO3 and does a decent job of bringing the franchise to a new generation of gamers. It's a solid recipe and I enjoyed my time with the game, but one playthrough was enough - and that's not really a great sign of a 4X. It feels tired, like the old man of space 4X that hasn't quite accepted the decline of his virility. The game is pretty and coasts on tried-and-tested 4X principles, but provides little innovation to the genre and fails to immerse the player in its universe. I've left a complete review on Old Man Mordaith (https://oldmanmordaith.com/2017/07/16/how-do-the-numoo/).

No Linux support, which is officially available on Steam.

Simple game with simple comcepts and some very minor buggy stuff. Nothing new but easy to play and you can randomize your starting galaxy every time. As far as those complex technology trees go, this one is easier to grasp earlier on than most games of this genre.