Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

Decent game. Was a eat too easy on easiest difficulty. Probably quite a bit more to the game. I just done my first playthrough and won conquest victory fairly easily. Seems to be a story about the planet that I didnt complete and other victory methods, so got replayability. Was nice and cheap, so definitely worth it if you are into this kind of thing.

Since Civilization 2 isn't on GoG yet, I decided to try this because I remember playing it with my cousin. Holy hell I love it. It's basically everything I loved about Civ II but the custom scenarios. I think it'll keep me busy in the meantime and then some, seeing as I just wanted to "get started" and next thing I know it's 3 hours later.

This game is two in one, meaning it has the original Alpha Centauri with the separate expansion game Alien Crossfire. There is no way through the GoG launcher to launch the expansion, but we can launch the executable from the installation folder. The real problem is that Alien Crossfire is fundementally broken, as the most players can do is launch the game and watch as it breaks immediately upon loading the world map, even before the first city is created. I doubt anything will come from this, as it appears to be a porting error, meaning it is a weird and unexpected bug with how newer computers handle something in the expansion's code.

Loads of fun, one of my most favorite Sid games. Never in a grid strategy game could go so fast and entertaining. You could terraform the planet like Earth or keep the planet as is and live with the mindworms and their red fungal habitat. One problem though which happened not too long ago. Windows updated 11 and it uncovered a 25 year old bug in the Alien Crossfire part of Alpha Centauri. There is a patch with the Thinker mod, it's on GitHub but other sites will give you a link to it

This is the perfect game - I've played it consistently since 1999 and I keep coming back to it. It is elegantly simple yet can be done with such complexity. Worth it!