Spheric (with time becoming boring) music in a retro graphic adventure game. Could not complete the forht (fire) card as there never was ehough energy left to place symbols on it. ....and you must do this... There should at least be a guide clue on how to advance the story and do the steps. After plaing about 1 hour i was happy to find the quit button. Maybe a game for magic people but not for me
Downloaded the game 6 times and always file 3 is corrupt. (previous version worked) The game has nice graphics and the story seems mysterious. Thousands of planets to exxplore, but they look like another (about 5 Types of plantes). Gameplay is repetetive and grinding. Would give previous version 3 Stars (even if the game is to expensive) but as the current offline installer is unusable 0 Stars. (I assume it works with galaxy, but i dont use it).
Basically it is chess. The computer is playing ok. The animations are neither fun nor inspired. I turned them off completely as they are just taking time and are distracting.
The similarities to MOO1 and MOO2 are: The name of some races and it has different adjustable victory conditions. Multiplayer is available via GOG Galaxy but you have to agree to some horrendous terms like allowing advertisements to be displayed on your computer. Whats nice: The races have good looks; There is a cinematic view available for battles (which can be turned off when getting bored by the repeating viedeo sequences not really reflecting the battle You can design your own ships You have do tactical battles Whats not so nice: Race customization brings some game breaking things like playing Silicoid with other than lithovore pick results starving to death because they nevertheless start on a volcanic planet. When scanning your systems you always have to zoom in and out whole galactic map making the map a bit jumpy and hard to keep on your properties. When Antareans attack you need your whole fleet to defend a single system. If you fail just once they are going to destroy your empire. As long as you succeed in defending they return and attack another (random) system. Bugs are known and reported for over a year but neither the developers care to answer nor to fix them. In point of view the game has been abandoned. Even released I would consider the game status as still in development. Maybe some modders will make it up. The producers abandoned it - in my point of view
The story is about fulfilling a dying man's life wish. The two actors have a lot of funny/cynical dialogues as they seem to be used on doing this (granting dying peoples last wish). This counteracts the story itself and on some points i found myself trying to click the dialogue away as i wanted the story to continue. A "good" intention with shoddy characters that remambered me to rpg-maker games. Great music. I found the story touching and interesting but hated the (in my point of view) irrelevant somewhat cynical comments of the main characters.
