Starion Tactics

The demanding price for this game is unreasonable by the extreme end of the sprectrum. Those with even the slightest interest, feel free to disregard as this game really brings nothing new to the genre. If this game is much better suited as a flash game on Armor Games / Newgrounds. The RNG in this game is shoddy and no customization. "..deeply tactical and highly visual experience.." This description cannot be any further from the truth.

From the outset, I like this game. It does what it sets out to do very well. That said, I won't be playing it because it's not my style of game. It's not a space 4x game but a casual simplistic strategy came set in a space theme. What the game appears to be from the advertising is a simplified, casual, 4x turn-based space strategy game. It isn't. I could really enjoy a game like and keep playing it for a lengthy period of time. It needs to have just a few more mechanics and a few more complexities to be a 4x. For example, there is no eXplore in this 3x game. That goes along with no research, no empire management, no ship customization, no planetary development. Well, heck, it's not a 4x game at all! That's my one warning, you will be very upset if you buy this expecting that (yes, I know it says it on the store page advert, honestly I don't know why they would advertise it as such). Let me explain what it actually is. It's a space themed table top strategy game. It's ...

I only played single player, There is no story line to discover, Though it gives you the option of team play, there is only one winner at the end (and having the computer win when you helped it sucks). There is no tutorial, This feels more like a phone app than a computer game. For $20 I expect playability from simple games that is at least comparable to a popcap game. Maybe it was meant to be played multi-player, but I was very disappointed.

Not quite ready. I've noticed a few things with this game off the bat. Every turn it gives you a summary of the action in the last turn and the statistics were not telling me about the ships I lost. Combat is simplified kind of like the Civilization games, this combat is a little confusing; much of the time it will show my ship destroy the other one and find out it had destroyed my ship as well. I do like the game and with a little work these things will probably get smoothed out in a few patches until them I can't recommend this to anyone. Lastly this is not a 4x game, there is no research and there is no diplomacy I could find.

I got this on sale for under $5.00 thinking it looked cool even though the reviews are mostly negative. I was wrong. If a game has mostly negative reviews, guess what, it isn't a good game. I tried 3 games: Game one, team play. I lost track since another player and my units were the same color and it just turned into a muddled mess. Hello, shouldn't the colors be the players rather than the factions? And my teammates ships as well as my own would both be around some plantets, and I could not tell them apart. Sometimes it seemed as if my ships were brighter, sometimes my enemies. Game two, 1-1 with different factions. I made the mistake of leaving artifacts on in the vicotry conditions. I won the game after finding 3 artifacts before even having a combat. Not fun. Game three, 1-1 different factions, artifacts off. The AI proves it'self brain dead. I took all the plantes. During the game, I built 53 ships. The AI? 4. yes 4. I lost (automated combat) 15 ships to take out ...

Oops big mistake. not a 4-x game and no worth the $

Disappointed. I see potential, like a simple board game on the computer that could be simple and fun. But the UI is pretty tedious. The AI on every difficultly is terrible (which seems pretty unforgiveable as its simple math) and the cut scene battles are worthless.

I found this game to be completely underwhelming. The store page could not possibly be more misleading about what you are getting in this game. This is not a 4x game in the very least. It is space themed checkers. The only win condition in the game is to control a majority number of the planets on the board. The default settings in game are that when you move to an unoccipied planet, you capture it. Generally I will have won the game long before any combat has happened between myself and an enemy faction. I feel completely ripped off by this game. It promised so much and delivered on almost nothing it says in the store page. Please save your money for something worth it, like a lottery ticket.

Way to simplistic and limited for my taste. I think I will stick with Planetary Anihalation. This is a bit like an up to date tic tac toe / board game style concept. Not for me. I like a deeper, broader form of strategy.

Don't buy this game. It's filled with bugs. I just had a multiplayer game where the first time the AI attacked, it ended the game stating that the AI had won, when it attacked one planet out of my ...30. They only just added a singleplayer save function, it's incomplete and full of bugs and has been sold as a complete game. It's not even worth $5.00 in its current state. Buyers beware :(