If you are looking for a game for one or two evenings, then this is the game for you. In Starships you will not find a complicated strategy or advanced tactical game. The whole game is figured out after 2 or 3 games. There are few levels of difficulty and I suggest starting right away with the higher ones because game will be too easy.

Lets get this out of the way first. Did you play spore? Remember the last stage, where you got a spaceship, and had to run between your own planets, fighting off pirates, invaders, and asteroids, then occasionally catching your breath, and retaliating against the enemy? Well, if you hated that in real time, this game is even more tiresome and longer. Now, this is not a bag game, in fact, it's pretty enjoyable, it's just have some problems. The first one, is the aforementioned, the other, is that it came from the makers of Civilization...it's kinda a sequel to Beyond Earth, yet it's basically a mobile game, and not even a mobile civilization, but some fleet management fighting game. If you can can live with that, you just might have a chance of enjoying this game. Pro tip: use rockets. It's insane, how much damage you can to, especially if the enemies are forced to a tight formation.

First off, I will say that this game is good. But if you are approaching it expecting Civilization level gameplay, it will let you down. This game is very much made for the tablet/smartphone market; with very quick, somewhat shallow gameplay. Everything is instant, there are no build times. If you have the credits for anything, you simply purchase it and have it instantly. Units are relegated to a single fleet, which you can build up decently well, and combat is quick and satisfying. The only major issue I can really say about this game is a lack of multiplayer of any form. It feels like with the quicker, and more immediate nature of the game, a multiplayer mode would be quite fun. Sadly it isn't there. Other minor issues would be no full screen mode, as well as a 30 fps lock (personally don't care as long as it is stable, but worth it to mention for those who do). Other than that, it is a fun game. I would just advise that if you are wanting Civ 5 level gameplay, not the game for you. I would recommend at Endless Space if you want deeper gameplay. But for a quick game, this is not bad.

If you set your workers to automate or always put someone in charge of running your cities then this is a game for you. Sid Meier is known for giving you the ability to micro manage everything. So understandably this game is really making people angry because it's not that kind of game. It has a lot of offer but doesn't take anything too far. For me, a person who likes to plan my attacks and be able to led my forces into battle while not having to go back to every planet, city, etc. I own each turn to make sure it's on the right path, this game is a ton of fun and more challenging than I expected. Sure it's not going to be a game you sink 200+ hours in but it's also not a day consuming march of tears and cheers that gets saved at 2am and never finished.

This is a board game set in space, but it doesn't have the depth or features which we should expect from the name Sid Meier. It is very repetitive and has limited features. It's a choppy, boring and short game that constantly lags and crashes. It has a lot of potential, but there's no joy of exploration and conquest like Civilization. It also lacks Fullscreen. In the gameplay, everything you construct is instantly done, you don't wait. Just get a lot of resources and then finish wonders and cities in a few turns so you will win. Food -> Cities, Science -> Research, Energy -> upgrade/build your fleet. It's just so simple.. Graphics and music are fine, but..just that. This game is the worst of Fixaris