Sid Meier's Starships for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Pixelarum

  Great Potential but Buggy (even at 1.4) and 2K Support is Weak

  I’m glad I didn’t pay more than $10 for this game; that’s about all it’s worth. Sprite clipping errors all over the place (objects showing through one another or overlapping when they’re not supposed to), buggy sound implementation and the gameplay is very one-dimensional and lacking in realism in certain respects. This has the potential to be a really good game but it’s mediocre implementation makes it the kind of game you will probably play until you beat the system once or twice at which point you’ll be bored with it. The “enemy leader” soundbites used in the Diplomacy screen are the cheeziest things I’ve ever heard, and the “graphics from the helm" when you’re about to accept a mission are equally cheesy. Both feel like they’re from the 90s. I’ve heard a lot about the greatness of Sid Meier games but this was my first and I have to say I don’t know what all the hype is about. If the Civ games are implemented anything like this one, they’re overrated.

  
  
• By Daverunrun

  not bad, but needs a little work

  Fun game that can take a short time to play or a long time. One glitch I recently noticed is that if you defeat the homeworld of an opponent and inherit their empire, it resets all your planetary defenses to zero. That can be problematic when you are fighting multiple enemies and all the sudden you have no drones to help you protect your planets. It would also be nice to see how close you and your opponents are to victory, aside from population percentage. It’s frustrating when you are playing along and the game suddenly ends when an opponent wins before you can really do anything about it. One last thing, when you set the victory conditions to one type of victory (e.g. Domination), sometimes an opponent will still win the game with a different type of victory condition.

  
  
• By sweet teeth joe

  unplayable on Pc

  You might expect better quality in a Sid Meire game… you might be disappointed. I enjoy the game, it’s a simple waste of time, BUT it can only be played when using a mouse with the ability to right-click. The game does not understand a ‘ctl-click’ as a right click for some reason, so that leaves out my PC, unless it’s convenient to tote around an external mouse and have a table to play on. Oddly enough, it works quite well with a wacom tablet which doesn’t exactly have a right click either. If the game had more depth it might be an issue, but after playing the game a dozen times or so on a tabletop Windows i thinks i is done with it.

  
  
• By SQL Guru

  an excellent quick round of Fun!

  I’ve played 3 games and all three were more fun that I expected - until the game came to an abrupt and surprizing end announcing that the AI had won a Wonder or Population Vicoty even though it was set on Domination. Sid, please, fix the bug and release an upgrade. Update: The recent patches fixed all the issues I had with the game. Highly recommended. — long time Civ fan

  
  

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