Let's Try: Sid Meier's Starships 

Well you can change the win condition, so if you set it to domination victory then the game ends only when there is only one player left

meryanism Unfortunately the game apparently sets that condition for the player and not for the AI. Hopefully that gets fixed anyway.

Ditto

If you're looking for a game like Sid Meier's Starpirates, you should try out Starsector, which fits the bill perfectly. Mod support is very active as well and a great deal of mods have been released already. Although the game is officially not finished (it's created by a very small indie dev team), it does everything right. Other titles you might want to have a look at which are in the same pipeline (Rebel Galaxy and SPAZ 1 or 2)

Phil Lewis Have you ever heard of Spore?? :)

They already could do that. Just making Beyond earth and starships DLC's. And make civ 5 on of the most succesful games ever. Sid meier was once a creative dev who had a heart for his fans. But today he and his team are lazy moneygrabfucks. It wont happen.

Edwark10 Spore was a great game but there were lots of parts that could have been developed further. Like each stage was giving us a taste of the real possibilities. Imagine if we had a 4X game with that kind of scope.

Tropico? 😁

More like Master of Orion (a game released in 1993) with less features.

More like any half decent space 4x/grand strategy with LESS features... This shit isn't even ten percent as fun as Distant Worlds not to even mention FREE to play Aurora 4x.

Master of Orion 2 has a lot more depth as a game and this was not intended to have that.

This is crap, MoO 2 is masterpiece ! ! !

LOL This is a tablet game that was ported to PC and released at the same time.

Thau Tard Would explain why it looks so bar bones.

obviously optimised for mobile devices

Why's that a bad thing?

MegaTyler93 It shows that the game has been built around a different school of thought than desktop games, and has been streamlining for a far less powerful platform. This reflects in the lack of depth in the gameplay, and the shocking lack of options. You play an ipad game for ten minuets while you are on the bus to work or on the toilet, not for hours sitting at your desk at home.

ns9559 A quote I heard a year ago: "A billion people will be coming online for the first time in the next ten [now nine] years, and they'll never know anything but a mobile perspective." Its important to be ahead of the market's curve.

you think so sherlock ?xD jk of course it is

Because it is a touch screen mobile game.

Daton Kallandor So was Civ 5, you have the option to play it in tablet mode and it works on phones too, it's not like it's new for these guys to make these games work on touchscreens because any of the Civ games could very easily be converted to touchscreen games. It being like a touchscreen game doesn't take away from it in my opinion.

Jonathan Garrad Civ wasn't designed for touchscreens. Spaceships was. You can clearly see that in both the content decisions and the UI design and UI flow.

Jonathan Garrad then your opinion exclude lots of facts and understanding with game mechanics UI development UX and basic game concepts... phones should be phones, now we are making them handcomputers, tabletPC's should be just that, instead the companies promote and advertise ENJOYMENT usage of such devices to be at all succesful in marketing and selling this shit, and thus were the shitty games born...or rather pushed over to "mobile platforms" if someone can't take the time to learn basic computer technology to operate a PC then one should stop using any technology alltogether, this is why i am against the production/developement of any consoles and games for handheld devices...it's not what they SHOULD BE meant for. they should be portable computers...NOT fucking "enjoy your stupidity and give me your money" machines.

Márton Szabó the reason a lot of people don't game on PC is not because they don't understand it but because they can't afford it, I have a middle of the line laptop only a year old and it can't handle the majority of games even on low settings so my alternative to allow me to play games is my mobile until I can afford a better PC for games, and contrary to your post not every game on the play store is a money grab just like every game on steam isn't one, both platforms have well some well designed games and some simply to try and make a quick bit of cash

Barrie Wright lol and he even edited it. Still confusing.

Barrie Wright try stellaris. much more improvement and mod ability... test it ;} i like stellaris but this sid Meiers is a really shitty fake of stellaris...

Yeah, This game looks small and incredibly fun! if they add modding support it could take up at least 60 to 100 hours of my time (Working a nightshift job is great yo)

Shady Steps The only complaint I can understand is the lack of general options of the game such as graphics, resolution, v-sync, etc.

If it was free it would either be full of ads, or have some horrific microtransaction shop that ruins the game, I'd much rather pay a one-off fee for a game like this.

vidEOkid12345 I actually realize the compromise, I still don't think it's worth 15$. Other f2p games will give you a better bang for your 0 buck.

The Gogoy F2P? In this genre? Don't think there's that many. I think the BEST one I've played (Wesnoth) would be considered a very large step back from what this looks like.

The Gogoy Personally, this game would be MAX 2 euros for me, not worth any more money. It just not good enough.

***** And Crossfire as well. I wish they produced more games like that as I got many enjoyable hours out of it.

Rellana1 Let me get this clear, I love sci fi, I love alpha centauri. But Civ 5 had way more features than beyond earth, this game had a red flag in my head when I saw the $15 price point. From an indie game that means it might be a good game, from a well established company it means "We want money, here chew on this". Alpha Centauri was an amazing game, however as all artists know, you are only as good as your last product. The last 2 products by firaxis were a semi-fail (semi because the modding community is making beyond earth actually worth buying), and an outright insult (This game).

PortraitofaDream I like how people always gripe on how BE has got nothing in it compared to Civ5 and I just wonder did you not play Civ5 before all the expansions and mods and what not came out? It easily had less in it than BE at launch.

Jonathan Garrad Yes I did play the original before the expansions, and I stand by my statement. By your argument, you're basically telling me that I should be expecting a half assed product just so I can wait for an expansion to get a complete game. Lets do a quick comparison just because you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. And yes, I counted all of these just to prove my point. Civ 5 Leaders(No DLC/Expac): 18 Beyond Earth : 8 Civ 5 - Each Leader has Nation SPECIFIC Units. Beyond Earth - All Leaders have the same units...zero diversity. Civ 5 Units inc Upgrades (No DLC/Expac): 90 Beyond Earth Units inc Upgrades : 52 Resources you can collect, and Trade (Notice Chittin isn't here because it's an improvement tile for paddock, you can't trade "chittin" as it's not commodity) Civ 5 Raw Resources (No DLC/EXpac):27 Beyond Earth Raw Resources: 6 ( Floatstone, Firaxite, XenoMass, Titanium, Geothermal, Petroleum) Civ 5 Victory Conditions: 5 Wonder, Domination, Time, Science, Diplomacy Beyond Earth :3 (Wonder, Domination, Contact) Affinity Wins are all Wonder victories, so they count as 1 in regards to unique win conditions. Civ 5: Units were color coded to your Nations Color/ Beyond Earth: They're all red, it takes a modder to put in this bare minimum xml color coding because Firaxite couldn't be bothered. Oh but beyond earth has 3 spies, so clearly it has way more content...if YOU have ever played CIV5, you wouldn't type such a ridiculous comment. Here's a wikia link on all CIV content if you want to fact check: civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Civilization_Games_Wiki.

Jonathan Garrad After the 2 DLC expansions, I still think its worse than Civ 4 after Beyond the Sword, so its kind of downhill for me.

This. Civ 4 was the last good Civ game they ever made.