A single major space battle that results in the loss of your largest fleet will not be the cause of your doom. On the default settings it seems much slower than other titles from this genre, so that it scales properly. It will take you a long time to conquer it, but that is only partially due to its size the other part is the dynamic of the game. The galaxy, even on the default setting, is large, perhaps even too large. Those who prefer micromanagement will be in heaven.

Those who prefer to focus on the conquest of the galaxy can simply delegate other parts of administration such as economy, taxes and colonization to the AI and focus exclusively on fleet actions and waging interstellar wars. Players can customize the amount of automatization to an extreme extent, ranging from having direct control over even the smallest detail such as ship design and taxes for each colony to delegating almost everything to the point where the game essentially plays itself. One of its major strengths lies in the fact that you can go as deep into the details as you prefer, and decide how many aspects of the game you wish to control. Let us start of with positive things, since my opinion of the game, overall, is actually quite positive. On the Grandy Strategy scale of things…ĭistant Worlds 2 is a 4x space strategy game that puts you in charge of your own galactic empire. After having spent around 80 hours in the game and finishing a campaign as a human empire, I must admit that I have mixed feelings about the game myself. After all, 4x strategy is an acquired taste.ĭistant Worlds 2, the long awaited sequel in the series (Universe was published in 2014) currently has a “mixed” rating on Steam, with 67% of users rating the game positively.

I must say that I happily jumped at the opportunity to test it, since I had the prior titles in fond memory, the last one being Distant Worlds: Universe, which still sits at “Mostly Positive” rating on Steam with some 75% of players finding it positive. Distant Worlds 2 was developed by CodeForce and published by Slitherine, who were kind enough to provide me with a review code.

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