Ancient Space

WHen I started and played Ancient Space for a while I had this feeling that I played something like that already... yup, it have this Homeworld 2 aura. Even music have this Homeworld 2 feeling, which means it's really good. So, for a strategy game which take place up there... I must say, it's pretty good. You can complain about units which are harder to notice on some backgrounds and there are some graphics that looks like from some old games but that's all. Oh, and system requirements are pretty harsh so be sure you own a powerful PC. If you enjoy this kind of games I'm sure you will enjoy Ancient Space too.

This game is very fun, and I would probably be playing it as much as I played Civ 6, but I have one tiny problem. literally, tiny. The games hud, players, and everything else is absolutely TINY! It's so hard to see your characters, nevermind your enemies! Besides this, the game is actually pretty fun, and contains many phases of dialogue, action, and lots of hours put into making good strategic tactics in order to win the battles. The ships all have their different characteristics and levels of attack (like most strategy games) but this game really emphasizes the "Space" attribute that is advertises. The game is altogether very fun, but almost too small to play.

This game has great potential but the size of the units and the tiny fonts make this game very difficult to play. The story telling and gameplay is similar to jupiter nexus incident except most of the units are expendable/replaceable. The enemy ai doesn't seem to have any resources management. They just spawn ships through portals and seem to come in never ending waves. This design decision is abit puzzling because the player is constrained by resources generated by nodes similar to company of heroes. Between missions you can upgrade each class of ship with resources you find from discoveries. Ship damage is based on opposing ship type meaning each ship is better at tackling different sized ships eg 1dmg vs small 5 dmg vs large etc. You can upgrade the ships in different mutually exclusive ways making them more diverse or more specialised in the enemies they tackle. The storytelling is reasonable but dont expect AAA standards. The voice actors sound unenthusiastic at best. The strategy part of the game is abit of a fragfest, just throw everything you have at the enemy click as many abilities as you can and it'll all work out. With most units being expendable strategy isn't really necessary nor rewarded. Its difficult to say with the graphics. Often you spend so much time zoomed out all you see are the unit icons (this game is really really tiny!) If you liked nexus jupiter incident this game may interest you but I stress this game doesn't come close in quality.