Planetary Control!

This is a great game. Ignoring for the moment all the nostalgia feels you get playing a game set in the SotS-verse. (I do. love the original Sots Soo much), The rules are easy to pick up, and the cards are balanced enough that there is no single-win-solution. You can play MP, or Solo against AI players. I highly recommend this as a fun, lightweight game that has a lightweight price to make it easy to [strike]sucker potential conquests[/strike] encourage friends to pick up for weekend gaming.

Planetary Control! gives a good first impression, then drowns in an ocean of flaws. By the makers of Kerberos (makers of Sword of the Stars, one of my favorite 4X games ever) comes a card game set in the universe of SOTS, though this relation is relegated to a very brief intro and the game itself having zero story content. The game revolves around five planets. As a space warlord, you are given a variety of cards scored 1-9 that can be used on a certain one of the five planets. You use these to conquer said planets; put up a card or a combination of cards higher than the score occupying the planet, and you successfully conquer it. The defeated army then become civilians, adding a passive 'score' to the planet that makes the world more valuable over time. Once one player draws the Ceasefire card, every player gets one more turn, then the round ends. The score of all the armies and civilians are added up, and the person with the highest score (or highest score over a set number of rou...

You can skip somebody else's turn, 10/10

Nice quick card game. At first i did not realise i could play a group of same cards to attack a planet. Sometimes you don't get many or at all special cards but you can still win or gain points if you wait and attack planets later. The main deck you and the Ai draw from won't refresh if exhausted. There is a end game card somewhere in the deck which can sometimes play at the right time when you control a number of planets and the last round is played before the game ends. Much like a white flag is a motor race. You can increase pop on planets to get bonus score points in two ways, having several armies/cards invade at once and playing a reinforce card if you get one. You can only attack a planet once per turn. It would be nice if there was more variety in enemy avatars and possible planets. As a tip, turn off the voice sfx in audio settings if you find the out of place voice annoying as i did. So in summary, once you learn to play this game and the rules are simple (no tutorial but...

A "strategy" title with no real strategy. I was iffy anyway since most card game adaptations have disgusting reliance on random chance to win, but here it was especially bad. You won't really understand unless you play it, but it is very irritating to be sitting on big armies of one of the species but you can't reinforce their planet without a special card you may or may not draw. It's very annoying to actually have the biggest army only to lose it to a nuke card that someone may or may not draw. It makes my mouth froth thinking about when I have a decent number of army cards and a nuke, but the enemy has a shield card in play and I don't have a sabotage... There are too many hard counter situations that rely on pure chance card draws to counter for this to warrant any semblance of being a strategy game. It's chance, pure and simple, and what may work in a tabletop setting among friends doesn't sit right with me online. I'm not having fun... There is something more, though. Kerbe...