If You are a fan of MoO, Endless Space, Space Empires or any other great 4X sci-fi You should definitely buy Distant Worlds: Universe. This If You are a fan of MoO, Endless Space, Space Empires or any other great 4X sci-fi You should definitely buy Distant Worlds: Universe.

Mothergunship is a bullet hell roguelike first-person shooter video game developed by Grip Digital and Terrible Posture Games. As with Tower of Guns, the previous game from the same developer, it features levels that are randomly created from a pool of possible elements, making each playthrough unique. Mothergunship wiki. About Mothergunship Mothergunship mixes bullet-hell intensity with the shooting, customization, and traversal of the first-person genre. Fight your way through the alien fleets, facing randomized enemy and level mayhem as you clear rooms and take out some of the biggest bosses seen in the FPS genre. You can help Mothergunship Wiki by expanding it. MOTHERGUNSHIP mixes bullet-hell intensity with the FPS genre and promises you one of the largest gun customization options seen in video games. It’s up to you to equip your over-the-top arsenal and defeat a robotic alien armada that has conquered Earth.

Feb 12, 2014  While Distant Worlds has a bit of a learning curve, it isn't that difficult to gain a mastery of the game and grow to love it and what it brings to the 4x genera. All in all if you are looking for a fun game, with a bit of depth, then consider Distant Worlds and all of the expansion packs.

This game is a true gem in this genre and with the modding capabilities added in the last expansion You can play this game in Mass Effect, Star Trek or other themes. Definitely the best 4X sci-fi game ever created. TL:DR Totally must have for any 4X sci-fi fan!

This is one of the few games that I have ever paid full price for, and I must say, it should be regarded as one of the best additions to the This is one of the few games that I have ever paid full price for, and I must say, it should be regarded as one of the best additions to the 4x genre ever produced. Considering the size of the development team (basically one guy), the wealth of features, and its sheer replay value, there is literally no reason that a 4x fan shouldn't pick it up. As other reviewers have noted, it has Windows UI support, which turns out to be surprisingly convenient as you can easily import/export designs and saved games. It's highly moddable, and the community takes full advantage of this, with almost every major Sci-Fi franchise represented on the official forums. The learning curve is steep, as the game has many mechanics that are not fully elaborated upon by the manual or the tutorials. Speaking of which, the tutorial is one of the reasons I decided to knock off one point, as it really does not prepare a new player for even a very easy game. In the same vein as the venerable but tragically obscure Space Empires series, users have the option to tweak their designs down to individual components on the ship.

However, unlike Space Empires, you are unable to define where a component will go, only that the ship is equipped with it. But that is alright, as there are a host of other variables to take into consideration when designing.

Another outstanding feature is the presence of a private sector. Rather than being forced to micromanage every tiny aspect of your Empire's economy, your spaceports will automatically build commercial vessels that do not cost anything, and yet the tax revenue generated by the trade routes they establish with other colonies, both owned by you and by the AI Empires, can be truly enormous.

There is one potentially game breaking exploit though, that has yet to be resolved. You can redesign commercial vessels for the private sector, so if you equip them without any armor or weapons, your profit margins from tax revenue will predictably rise.

If those vulnerable ships are destroyed? It costs you nothing, and as a bonus, those ships are 'insured,' meaning the AI will pump out a replacement without so much as a fuss. There are lots of other little tricks like this that can be applied to government funded ships that will send your economy through the roof and make you a galactic superpower in short order. Much has been made of the automation capabilities of the AI, and this is generally great for new players, but the AI design templates are suboptimal, so you may find yourself redesigning literally everything. Also, never allow the AI to decide how many military vessels or ground troops to build, as you will go bankrupt in short order.

One other minor niggle that I have is that the tech tree, while extensive, does not favor a wide variety of play styles. There is one type of late-game beam weapon, one type of late-game missile weapon, and one type of late-game propulsion, etc, that is superior to all of the race-specific unique types. This means that your ships will be mostly identical between games, and I find this unfortunate because the mid-game tech tree is a.

Distant Worlds 2, the sequel to one of the best 4X games, has been in development for four years, but we've heard very little about during that time. Today, publisher Slitherine has finally lifted the lid, just a little bit, and shown off the first screenshots, along with some details about the interstellar sandbox on its.The first Distant Worlds is many things, but a looker isn't one of them. It's closer in appearance to Masters of Orion than its contemporaries. Distant Worlds 2 has made the switch, thankfully, to detailed 3D models and uses a new 64-bit engine, and the screenshots reveal that the upgrade has been, at least visually, pretty significant.The team's goal is to make an even larger 4X game than the original, which had the benefit of three expansions and years of post-launch support, but at the moment it's only talking about shipbuilding.Instead of just slapping components on a 2D ship until you run out of room, ships are 3D models with slots split up into different categories and a hull to protect them. There are more limitations than just space, then, and if damage gets through the hull it can take out specific components, making the ship less effective.Space 4X games absolutely love making us design ships that we'll hardly ever see again and probably could have been created just as effectively by the auto-build option, and I will continue to lap it up. They're the last kind of games that needs that extra level of granular fiddling, but they all seem to have it. If that's not your cup of Earl Grey, hopefully Distant Worlds 2 will have the same approach to automation as its predecessor.Distant Worlds can be extremely complex, and diving straight in is not recommended, even if you've got some 4X games under your belt already.

Luckily, almost everything can be handed over to the surprisingly competent AI, letting you focus on the basics and only turn the rest on when you know what you're doing. It's also great if you're looking to escape the 4X cycle and just explore and have some space adventures. You can take control of a single ship, automate everything else, and just pretend you're Picard.Check out the screenshots below.(Image credit: Slitherine)(Image credit: Slitherine)(Image credit: Slitherine)(Image credit: Slitherine)(Image credit: Slitherine).