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Slipways

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4.2/5

( 35 Reviews )

4.2

35 Reviews

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Slipways
Description
Slipways takes the space grand strategy genre and condenses the best parts of it down by throwing away all the micromanagement and the steep learning curve. The result is a unique blend of the strategy and puzzle genres in which you can finish a run quickly, but still have a deep experience full o...
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Puzzle
Tags:
Strategy, Sci-fi, Turn-Based, Puzzle, Science, show 10 more... Management, Sandbox, Resource Management, Family Friendly, Space, Logic, Relaxing, Procedural Generation, Grand Strategy, 4X
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4.2/5

( 35 Reviews )

4.2

35 Reviews

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Product details
2021, Beetlewing, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 or higher, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 7xx series or equivalent, Version 11, 1 GB available space...
Time to beat
7.5 hMain
30 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
11 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
Slipways takes the space grand strategy genre and condenses the best parts of it down by throwing away all the micromanagement and the steep learning curve. The result is a unique blend of the strategy and puzzle genres in which you can finish a run quickly, but still have a deep experience full of tough decisions.

MAKE TRADE, NOT WAR

Colonize planets, carefully pick industries and hook everything up so that your planets support each other. Line everything up just right and watch your colonies evolve and grow, giving you even more options for profitable trade. Make long-term plans and bask in your own glory when that one last connection makes six planets upgrade at the same time and gives you the income you desperately need.




There is no military aspect to pull your focus away from the economy. The game is more relaxed than your typical grand strategy. It's all about exploring space and its endless opportunities, shaping it to your whim and developing it to its full potential. No need for war with so much empty universe to claim.

FASTER THAN LIGHT

Forget about tedious micromanagement and waiting for ships to be built. In Slipways, every action you take has immediate consequences, and every choice you make is of paramount importance. Your planets govern themselves while you focus on making the right decisions to get them what they need. You'll waste none of your precious time on busywork. A single run takes 40-60 minutes and they are all filled with the good stuff.

TECH IT UP A NOTCH

There are no boring technologies here. Instead of making a single building 20% more efficient, technologies in Slipways let you move planets at will, harness stars for energy or colonize planets with sentient machines instead of people. The selection varies each run, so you'll have to plan carefully and adapt to the situation at hand. The path you choose will profoundly change your experience and the way you look at the game's planets and resources.


...ONE MORE GAME?

When a single run takes no more than an hour, what you need is replayability. Almost everything in Slipways is procedurally generated and each sector of the galaxy offers wildly different challenges. To overcome these challenges, you'll enlist the help of the five races populating the empire, each with their own philosophical outlook, varied abilities and a dedicated slice of the technology tree. There are more than 80 technologies to choose from and you'll only be using about 10 of them each run. No two games are ever exactly alike.

PLAY IT YOUR WAY

The standard gameplay mode gives you 25 years to build the best empire you can, but there are others. The endless mode lets you play for as long as you can hold on to power, the sandbox mode allows you to experiment freely, while the ranked run is a chance to measure your skills against others around the world on pre-seeded maps.


The game will also feature a campaign mode, with each scenario introducing a new twist and refreshing the gameplay: supernovae that have to be tamed or avoided, sectors with completely new resources to be mined, a dense nebula impeding your progress. On launch day, there will only be a few scenarios to explore, but their number will increase over time as free updates are released. The new mechanics introduced in the campaign will also feature in other modes, becoming new options for even more varied runs.
Popular achievements
Don't Spend It All in One Place
Reach an income of 120$ per year at any point in a standard run.
common  ·  38.28%
Spreading Sentience
Colonize 100 planets across all your games.
common  ·  35.21%
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
7.5 hMain
30 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
11 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Puzzle
Tags:
Strategy, Sci-fi, Turn-Based, Puzzle, Science, show 10 more... Management, Sandbox, Resource Management, Family Friendly, Space, Logic, Relaxing, Procedural Generation, Grand Strategy, 4X
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.14+)
Release date:
{{'2021-06-03T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Beetlewing / Beetlewing
Size:
596 MB
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User reviews

Posted on: September 4, 2025

rezinomed

Verified owner

Games: 324 Reviews: 1

Masterpiece that will puzzle your mind

It's a never ending game where every connection you make opens to a thousand more possibilities

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Posted on: September 9, 2025

CaveSoundMaster

Verified owner

Games: 335 Reviews: 7

Excellent "double-x" game.

It's eXploit and eXpand without the Xterminate. It scratches a very similar itch as a euro-style board games do, build up your galactic economic engine, invent tech, get points (or stars, in campaign mode). Except it uses systems that would have been impossible or unwieldy in a physical medium. An absolute treat to everyone who likes clever tight thinky games. "So... if I do this, then I can do this, and also use this, and then I'll unlock that, so that I'll be able to... hmm hmmm... but what if I did this and that instead, that would give me... hmmm hmmm"

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Posted on: July 29, 2024

Sehremis

Verified owner

Games: 107 Reviews: 31

Lost the tutorial

I was just playing my first game, and I was thinking I wasn't doing too bad. I wasn't swimming in wealth, pretty okay in research, made some rookie mistakes, the people where reasonably happy. And then I suddenly got a game over out of nowhere and I don't know why, or what I could have done better. I'll probably still give it a second chance, but generally, I don't like games that start on punishing difficulty like this and have no easier mode, nor games that don't give you feedback when you're doing something wrong and are on the way to a game over. Also, the exploration probes recently missed notes that were displayed to be just in range, which kinda annoyed me since it cost me in-game time and money. Apart from that, it actually looks pretty interesting, so I hope this was just me having my usual share of bad luck.

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Posted on: February 11, 2025

Gdimoni

Verified owner

Games: 1175 Reviews: 29

So far entertaining.

I skipped the tutorial, perhaps I should have done it...but well, it is a decent passtime.

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Posted on: June 22, 2021

enjdusan

Games: 99 Reviews: 5

It's not as fun as it might seem

The game looks nice, it's a one-man project, so hats off to what he's created. But it's actually a very simple game. One, two sessions and you're set, and you can in good conscience uninstall.

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