Space Games

It’s good. Like Olive Garden, it’s as good as fine can get. It’s a real-time turn based tactical strategy game, so while the game is paused you tell each ship where to go, who to shoot at, and what abilities to unleash, with options limited to what the ship can do over a ~6 second period. Then you end your turn and watch those commands play out and succeed or fail based on the enemy’s response. It strikes a good balance between puzzling out the optimal commands and the spectacle of watching spaceships blast each other apart.

Sometimes you smile as you press play because you know that barrage of missiles from two turns ago are going to take out the big ship you’ve been peppering down. Other times you realize there’s no way out for one of your ships and just try to use its death to lure the enemy into a worse position. At the end of combat you can watch the whole thing play out in real time over a minute which looks like you’re watching a battle from the 2004 show, only bigger.

The only thing is, once you get used to the controls and basic tactics, I feel like the game gets bigger in terms of fleets and ship sizes without getting more complex or interesting. But it’s still cool for a good few hours, especially if you’re a fan of the show.