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Space Games

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Games with a space setting, space-focused gameplay or space motifs. Space sims (Elite, Freelancer, X4), space strategy (Stellaris, Star Ruler 2, Moons of Ardan) or even adventure games with a space setting and themes (Citizen Sleeper, Gemini Rue).

Any games about the great beyond.


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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Fun game. Fucking mindworms

[–] malle_yeno@pawb.social 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Awesome use of GIS! Was not expecting to see the crossover between SMAC and geography, but cartographers continue to be the most interesting people alive lol

And its moon

Like, Nessus Prime? I thought that was only mentioned in text by the Living Refinery. We never see a map of it in game

[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 3 points 4 days ago

Was wrong about the moon. My bad.

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's the current best means of playing Alpha Centauri on modern hardware? Not that I need even more hours in the game...

[–] malle_yeno@pawb.social 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Download it off gog and play it. It runs fine.

If you want some modern civ features like mouse panning the map and overlays, use PRACX.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I never played it back in the day, got into 4X at the tail end of Civ 3 and my formative experiences where with Civ 4/5, so the GOG version is my standard point of reference.

Mouse panning the map sounds unbelievably helpful.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can get it on Steam, I assume it would work through that.

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Oh, nice. I'd just assumed it was too old and I'd need a VM or something.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 days ago

I love this so much