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Posted on: December 5, 2017

Taran0

Games: 190 Reviews: 1

A universe that feels alive.

I have played this game pretty much since the day it came out, and it is one of my all-time favourites. In my opinion, what sets Distant Worlds apart from other games in the genre is how alive the universe feels. Your empire (and AI empires as well) have both a state sector that is directly controlled by you, and a private sector which is not. The result is that the game is full of civilian ships going about their business transporting stuff and mining asteroids and such. Unlike in many other games, resources aren't simply abstracted into a big resource pool. A resource can only be used if it is present at the location it is needed, which means that will often need to be transported between planets or stations (the private sector takes care of transporting stuff, so don't worry about the micromanagement). This creates actual trading routes and supply lines that can then be raided in times of war. It opens up a whole lot of possibilities, and the most important result is a galaxy full of activity, whereas in many other games the only ships in the galaxy are the warships or exploration ships of the players. Besides that, Distant Worlds offers everything that you would expect from a 4x game. Diplomacy, technology trees, ship design etc. The game is fairly complex, but this can be alleviated by the automation mechanic. You can set toggle every task in your empire between AI and manual control. This means you can set the AI to run everything you don't want to do, while focusing on the tasks you do want to do. If you want to, you could even set the AI to run your entire empire while you just take control of a single ship or fleet, and roleplay as a ship captain or fleet admiral. It can be a lot of fun.

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Posted on: December 5, 2017

dahllia

Games: 157 Reviews: 1

The (almost) perfect space 4x game

This game is a true masterpiece even though it doesn't look awfully good anymore. The biggest difference between Distant Worlds and other space 4x games is that you can automate pretty much the whole game if you want to. This gives you a lot of options on how to play. Want to micromanage almost every little thing? You can! Want to focus on building and governmental choices? Automate all your fleets and military. Want to focus on only fleets? Automate everything else? Want to RP an admiral and only control one fleet? You can and the game will sort everything else out. Want to be a captain and only control one ship? Again it's an option. It does have a very rough learning curve though. So prepare to spend quite a few hours restarting as you learn how the game works.

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Posted on: December 5, 2017

Silverhawk170485

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Games: 2831 Reviews: 28

Best 4X game, but not for everyone

I already bought this game years ago on the Matrixgames website. What you have to know about this game is, that you have to invest a lot of time for learning how to play the game. It has a high compexibility. There are ingame tutorials but they don't show every possible thing you can do in this game. So you have to read the manual carefully, which contains 112 pages or you try everything out by yourself. The menues aren't that userfriendly, so it's better to read the manual. But despite these things, you'll get the best and most complex 4X game since years. I don't want to list here, all the possibilities you can do in this game. They are too many and this won't fit in here. So the only thing you have to ask yourself is, if you have the time to learn how to play this game and if you want to invest it. After you managed the steep learning curve, you'll have a lot of fun. Now that Slitherine is here, I hope that Command - Modern Air Naval Operations will be released here too. I already own that game on the Matrixgame website too, but the download from there is really slow and the site is really messed up. So I'd buy it from here again when the game will be released here.

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Posted on: July 30, 2022

Mr_iris

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Games: 10 Reviews: 1

heres a fix Gog should have put in

i find this to be a great game but gog should have fixed a lot of problems with this game not the users so this is how i fixed it (it may still not work but this is what worked for me when you get to the launcher and press play then you get a splash screen that will stay there for a moment and then disappear it's supposed to have small yellow text with things like charging weapons this happens because the opening cutscene is crashing the game to fix this is how i got it working go to C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Distant Worlds Universe and type in the search bar Startup.in Open the Startup.ini in a text editor (like: Notepad) and change: playmovie 1 to: playmovie 0 (i used notepad for this bit) if your game doe not start after this you going to need Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 I installed this first - DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) DirectX needs to go into C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Distant Worlds Universe it will install a box where you can paste C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Distant Worlds Universe into this is important as it will dump a load of files into it the Distant worlds file i got this knowledge from this forum https://www.gog.com/forum/distant_worlds_universe/launcher_ok_but_program_does_not_start i have windows 10 version 10.0.22000 build 22000 so idk if this works with other windows 10 versions or windows 11 hope this helps

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Posted on: December 5, 2017

Veloxi

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Games: 934 Reviews: 24

Best 4X Ever

This game is the best 4X because, even in the late game, you never stop doing the first 2 xs, explore and expand. This alone keeps the game fresh even in the mid and late game, when most other games bog down with micromanagement. Get this game. Just get it.

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