Galactic Inheritors

This is a pretty slick game. It is not as Epic as other space games, but it is fun. Turn based. The game is rather simple on some levels and a little complex on others. Moving ships is easy - just select the fleet and right click to your destination. You need to Explore a star system before you can colonize it. Enemy star systems that you conquer you can immediately colonize. To find resources you need to explore a second time, and then activate the resource with an explorer ship which uses up the ship. Once activated resources will increase that area of the star system by one resource. Battles are hands off. The fleets will 'fight' on the strategic map and you will see the results. There are no graphics for the battles except ship losses. Handling Colonies and Fleets is really easy because there is a spread sheet type display for both. Also, there is a message sheet every turn. All of these sheets really help the player to handle the Empire. Diplomacy is simple yet a little invol...

I got this on sale and I ignored the negative reviews because I love these types of games. The rubbish ones usualy have redeeming features for genre fans like me. Not this one. This may have been fun in the early 90s but not now. This is soooo basic and not in the awesome sense like the classic Stars! it is basic in that it feels incomplete and or was not thought through. The sound is basic. The mechanics are basic. It is not compelling at all. I left a postive review for Lords of the Black Sun and I even found some joy in Apollo 4x. That should tell you something about how low my standards are. I can't say anything good about the game apart from that it works. I'm sorry Crispon Games, please do better next time.

Release Day Review: So they fixed what was wrong in the early access, which is definitely a good thing. They cleaned up the UI a bit and fixed a plethora of bugs and glitches. However, there still just isn't enough here to justify 20 dollars. When I first joined early access with this game, I was expecting something much... more. The 2 things that make this game stand out is the Military Industrial Complex (which is how you build your military ships) and the media-focused Diplomacy system (essentially by using the media, you control how your population views another faction) which again are both really cool features. Everything else is kind of watered down as far as 4X Turn-based strategy games go. I still recommend the game for people unfamiliar with the genre because it's very easy to pick up but for anyone who has played SotS, GalCiv, or Sins, then you've pretty much tread this territory before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCRnefNUFDA Early Access Review: "The usual 4X Strategy ...

I bought this half on nostalgy of MOO and also because I had the chance to meet Chris at Paradox and enjoy his game designs. I could only devote a few hours of play here (and that's a shame, but looks like the way life is now regarding our passion for games, we need ones with good concepts, easy handling, simple learning curve). Well, I am pleasantly surprised. Sure, it's a slow begining (but like all 4X almost) and the graphical elements have much room for improvement (but if I can tell from the screenies around, it's upcoming)... but the most interesting thing is the key concepts in the game, that are a welcome change for once. No need to worry like crazy about war and early aggression (although 'Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum' ) but better build a few warships, and the interesting idea of the private enterprises in the military industrial complex doing that task for you (yes, I am the kind who hates design every single part of spaceships). But the most curious, and quite interesting, ...

I like the game, but there some serious annoyances. First the good. I love how the exploration ships are used for more than just exploration. That idea alone is brilliant. The thought of purchasing your war ships through private companies and performing research through those companies is a great idea, but I do not feel it was implemented well. Perhaps if each company specialized in something or gave you a patented technology that only they could provide, or some incentive to pick one company over the other then it would be outstanding. The game has that "Just one more turn" feeling to it, I did find myself wanting to see how something would improve my situation once it was finished being (built or researched). That is pretty much the end of the good for me. When I first read the description of the game where it described how you have to use media against your enemies and for your friends, I thought that is a great idea. Unfortunately, it is horribly implemented in this game...

A great game for any 4X player. You can feel the developers understand intimately and passionately the genre. The AI is very well made and mounts a formidable challenge. A few 'early access' bugs like background music starts a few minutes in, but nothing to spoil the very enjoyable experience. I would love to see more immersive artwork added.

There is potential here, I want you to keep that in mind, because down the road this game could be interesting. There's a couple of interesting mechanics with the explorer units and exploiting resources, and the diplomacy portion could be interesting in terms of holding off people attacking you. This definitely can change based on what options become available, and I will keep my eye out on this one. But the game is FAR too slow. Missing keyboard shortcuts is brutal, as everything is mouse driven. A hundred turns in, no one has attacked each other: no one can. The first 50 turns is slow going yet essential. There's missing information to know exactly what you're building. Missing UI elements to know what your status is. You feel disconnected from the experience. Lack of additoinal sounds loses immersion. For more gameplay and Impressions/Details, look at the video here: http://youtu.be/fhxTq1VSwis

Great start to what can be a fantastic gaming experience. This game will really suit those players looking for a galactic sized strategic workout. Hopefully this project gets enough backing to see it come to completion. Can't wait for more updates!!

Galactic Inheritors is exactly what the game summary says it is. So if you like that summary and you do not apply your own ideas of what else it might be, implied or otherwise, then this game will suit you and I recommend the game for you. If you are invisioning great dynasties and story side events to occur similar to CK2 or EU then although that may be the inferal you are most likely to take from the dev shop, it is not what they are drawing on for this game and in that you will be dissappointed. Like CK2 and EU you must work to gain the option / ability to declar war. From that stand point it is a nice turn to space based 4x games. It also means there are no suprises out there. No enemy bound, determined and soon to spring upon you without warning. There is always a lead up and you have some time to prepare. Many will like this aspect I think. The expansion, the tech tree and the ship management are all pretty simple and work for achieving the stated goals of the game descripti...

Really playable with all the 4X requirements plus a few extras that add to the depth of this game, so it's more than the norm. There are some small changes I'd like to see, but reading the developers feed, I can see they are on the way. I did want to get in to battle sooner (but needed shios etc) and want spys so I could try to influence the media for other races (against each other) and to know more about what they were doing.