Distant Worlds Game

Distant Worlds Game

Put a grand strategy game in Space. Let the user decide exactly what micromanagement interests them--designing warcraft, planning espionagePut a grand strategy game in Space. Let the user decide exactly what micromanagement interests them--designing warcraft, planning espionage missions, and managing colonial growth for example--and let the AI handle the rest. Add a dollop of species differentiation and storyline, and a dash of modability, and you have a recipe for the best 4x available today.
DW:U, now on Steam with reasonable pricing. Huzzah! The best 4x is now accessible*.
(No, I don't mean vision-impaired accessible, the fonts are hard coded and hard to read on modern monitors).
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Distant Worlds Video Game

While Distant Worlds has a bit of a learning curve, it isn't that difficult to gain a mastery of the game and grow to love it and what it brings to the 4x genera. All in all if you are looking for a fun game, with a bit of depth, then consider Distant Worlds and all of the expansion packs. Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.