It was just the other week I heard about this game (on a thread here). Happy to see it, but it'll have to wait on the wishlist for now.

The game is a complex space 4x with a very Stylized Aesthetic similar to Dune, Game of Thrones, Futuristic Rennaisseance etc. The Gameplay is a mix of Civilization/Master of Orion/Star General.

This is, The things a Master of Orion 4x is able to offer with the addition of a layer of planetary wars/invasions in tabletop Panzer General hex maps for planetary combat, invasions and city building. Complex layers of diplomacy, houses, etc

It is a cult title, with loyal fan sites and important mods, traditionally a favourite for hardcore wargamers and 4x fans, relatively obscure at its time.

I am very glad to see this game available in GOG, indeed. I doubt it was available for digital purchase before. One more game rescued.

Ooh, nice.

A great addition to GOG. You can do so much. You will defend your home planet, wage wars of conquest, intrigue in the capital planet (no standard troops allowed), and help in the war against the aliens.

You get resources from planets you own. You can use them to create new units. Special units (straight from the tabletop game) such as space infantry and recon infantry are very fun to use (cannot remember their exact names in the game, but you can figure out). Space infantry (marines) can attack starships in space (by boarding them), as well as landing on a planet (but for getting spaceborne again they must reach a spaceport). Basically, space marines are super expensive but can defeat practically anything on the surface of a planet. Although you best save them for something that is really worth it, as they are truly expensive You better take good care of them. Also, once on a planetary surface, they do not move fast. On planets you will do better with cheaper regular units for sustained combat.

Recon infantry can perceive over a long distance. They are very useful as well.

There are spies that you can use in the capital planet. And armor, artillery, more infantry, and so on. You can do whatever you want, and each planet is a world in itself. The game is vast. Resources will be scarce for everything that you are to accomplish

Sounds very interesting. Wishlisted.

Never played it but after reading comments above - purchased!....Just 3 more picks and my counter will hit 800...yay :-D

You did it. You amazing maniacs, you finally did it! I've been running something of an abandonware copy of this for years because installing it from my CD never worked, but you guys not only made the game work, you got it working WITH its amazing cutscenes and music. AMAZING. Thank you!

One question though. How might we run this in a window, if possible?

Thank you so much!!!!!!!

Its like when Dune and Warhammer 40k had a love child. In a Civ like game.

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I even won't rage quit the shopping cart, because the price of 6,33 $ reset itself and went to 5,99 € and then to 7,14 $, like I usually do. I do silently threw a lot of nasty slurs and curses though.

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Uhrg, should not have vented. I rage quitted the shopping cart again -.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegaSoft - "a joint venture by Sega and CSK (Sega's majority stockholder at the time"

"SegaSoft disbanded in 2000 and many of the staff members were merged into Sega.com, a new company established to handle Sega's online presence in the United States."

Can someone with the knowledge explain how this is published by SegaSoft? This wouldn't mean SEGA has a second title here, right? (like some division of the company apathetic to DRM gave GOG the go-ahead or something :P)

So, this is a SegaSoft game. As it was a joint venture of Sega of America and the parent company CSK back in the day, is Sega now looking into GOG releases, or are they not involved with the brand anymore? SegaSoft is listed as a defunct subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings on Wikipedia. So I assume they are still connected...

I had a small burst of happiness when I saw this pop up :)

Read a bit about this game (and the universe), but never had opportunity to play, so I'm very very happy, it joined to GOG's offer.

And I'm really happy when we've got another older and less known title from 90', good job GOG!

BTW - why on the game's product page there is mentioned in game modes single player and coop? From what I understand, multiplayer in this game is competetive (since all 5 players, with up to 4 AI, are competing with each other)?

Rights are with Holistic Design, they talked with GOG about the release. I think that Segasoft is mentioned just as original publisher, not actual.

Hot seat multiplayer is supported, but it's up to the players to decide if they want to play against one another or form an alliance. There's also the possibility to "play by email", but that feels a bit vestigial in this day and age :).

Thanks. So Holistic are the publisher now? Makes sense, presumably the rights reverted back to them. I do think the use of "SegaSoft" as publisher is confusing though, even though it's a very minor thing, I might ask GOG or Holistic if that can be changed.