Stars!

Genre:

Strategy

Year:

1996

Developer:

Entertainment International

Publisher:

Empire Interactive

Perspective:

Top-down

Theme:

Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Turn-based, Space

Releases:

Windows 3.x (1995), Windows (1996)

As the game name suggests, Stars! is gonna be about stars, especially space exploration. If we had to find a similar game, the closest to this game is Civilization, only in a galactic scale. You start on one planet and you have only a few space ships you can use. Therefore, you have to start slowly by colonizing neighboring planets and invest resources in science and research, so you can produce modern machines and look to the distant places of the galaxy. The game is really sophisticated and you can look at different graphs, tables and other information. Unfortunatelly, creators of the game forgot about the fun sideof the game and there is almost no graphics, just tables and graphs. That's a pity, because even though the game has a huge gaming options, only a few can play the game looking at the amount of tables without a nice animation and graphics. When we come home from work, we want fights, not just another spreadsheet. Despite this, game was slightly popular at the time, but if the game had a nicer graphics, it could have been a huge success. Anyway, this is a very well-done strategy with nice ideas and I'm sure many gamers will like it even today.