Pirates of the Polygon Sea
Pirates of the Polygon Sea is a pirate action adventure game. You play as a pirate vying to take control of the Mythic Isles. In doing so you will build your very own port town, trade with neighboring islands, hunt for lost pleasure and attack merchant ships and opposing pirates.
The first decision that the player makes is arguably the most important of the game. You are given the choice of four pirates to play as:
- Blackwood is given the Dhow Warship to start with. He is known for his presence and tactical mastery as a former navy admiral. To select him is to play with a mindset of bringing civilization to the savage land.
– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game
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Lacks any sort of uniqueness or depth to be enjoyable. There is only few building options for your colony, no leveling of character, no upgrades for your ship other than buying higher tier ship or ship of different class (3 ship classes, 5 ships each, none really unique), combat is simple as you only have one cannon ball type to shoot with in addition to 1 special weapon for each ship class.
Only 1 winning condition (get enough prestige and money to buy max title for yourself) and, as far as I can tell, you can’t destroy your enemies completely (each of my opponents had buildings I could not shoot. I reduced each to like 1 building and they were able to rebuild).
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
In my opinion this is the best version of this game.
I say this because each “new game” is just a tiny expansion of the original product. in simple terms, they have been charging 60 bucks for the the same old game over and over and over.
I don’t support rebellion for this exact reason.
the only reason you shold buy ANY of these games is if you plan on using one of the many mods available.
as this is an older version, mods for this title will be more likely to be finished and less likely to be broken by random updates.
– Real player with 125.1 hrs in game
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For Starters…
Let me preface by saying that I purchased this game back in 2012 during a steam sale. I installed it along with a few other titles, played for a few hours and uninstalled it within a few days. A couple years later I decided to give it another shot and removed it within hours of installing it. In fact, actually googled online to see if there was a way to delete the game from my steam library because I swore the damn game would never fool me into installing it again. It was extremely frustrating trying to learn all of the complex technical nuances to managing and controlling your space fleet, especially when I just downloaded a bunch of other titles and this one has a learning curve, and expects you to actually play through all four of the dense tutorials to gain the minimum level of proficiency to play the game. And of course, I clicked through them without retaining anything, immediately started a skirmish, couldn’t control my empire, was confused about what was going on, got obliterated, cursed the game and uninstalled…
– Real player with 61.4 hrs in game
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is a space strategy game and a real-time strategy (RTS) game which incorporates 4X strategy game elements. This game was developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment and is only available on PC.
While you may notice another game with Sins of a Solar Empire in its title (Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity), that is an older version of the game. Rebellion is the definitive and superior version as it not only offers numerous additions to the game, like Titans and new Factions to play as, but also contains everything from the previous versions of the game.
– Real player with 1719.1 hrs in game
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Sins of a Solar Empire represents a fun and visually spectacular 4x game. But the 4x is a bit tilted. There is diplomacy and you can win with diplomacy, there is exploration and you will need to explore and there is exploitation. But Sins of a Solar Empire at it’s core is a game of extermination, combat drives the game and will dominate the majority of what you do, but that is perfectly fine considering how fun it is.
This game is well supported considering it’s age though optimisation in multiplayer is poor and they do not allow you to local host your games instead requiring you to connect to their servers. The attention to detail in the base game is excellent from space elevators and space traffic around your planets to having individual weapon ports on ships with their own firing arcs. It’s hard to get bored of this game especially if you have friends to play with.
– Real player with 663.8 hrs in game
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
If you are looking at the reviews because you are hesitating on buying this game, before i make a review i should say this:
1-If you don’t have it already, go and buy ‘‘FTL: Faster than Light’’ (People say this game is similar to FTL but i really don’t think so, just ideas on core game mechanics are similar, gameplay is different)
2-If you have FTL and you are looking something VERY similar, then go and buy ‘‘Space Rogue’’ (It is not a masterpiece like FTL, it is just an average game but it is closest thing to FTL you can currently find in here)
– Real player with 75.3 hrs in game
Fun rogue-like-like with RTS-like-like top-down tactical combat with up to 5 ships in the player fleet vs a possibly obscene numbers of enemies.
Having stupidly-high APM isn’t a prerequisite, because you can easily pause the action in Tactical Mode to issue commands as needed.
Game isn’t 100% perfect but devs are actively working on quashing bugs and updating features.
Graphics 7/10: Ship/station and environment models are nice. Game has a very dark feel to it. As for backgrounds, I can say that they serve their purpose, but that’s about it.
– Real player with 37.6 hrs in game