ENDLESS Space™ 2

This game has way too much tedious garbage going on in the background to be enjoyable. Every turn you just get barraged with a wave of pop-ups and cutscenes that mean absolutely nothing. You switch a turn and suddenly just get swamped with waves of nonsensical garbage that barely feel like they affect anything. POP-UP, do you want to eat blueberries or do you want to kick puppies? +10% to smurf deployment but -20 wheat for 10 turns. POP-UP, surprise event discovered! Do you want to ignore these people and get +5 support to the military faction or do you want to go to a Green Day concert and gain +10 support for the religion faction? POP-UP, new quest discovered! Form two colonies within 15 turns in the Detroit sector and gain one free hero, Amadeus the Sploinker! POP-UP, enemy faction built an IRS! You are no longer able to achieve the "I fought the law" gameplay achievement! POP-UP, enemy faction just built a Radioshack! All build costs of Radioshack has been refunded to participating faction! POP-UP, random event! A random alien landed on your system! +1 glorbo population in the Schmorgo system! POP-UP, achievement gotten! Attract a new species to your system! +10 happiness for 10 turns! THIS IS INSANITY! YOU GET POP-UPS EVERY. SINGLE. TURN. And they are NEVER interesting or important. It's always just some meandering garbage that means nothing, but you can't even ignore them because if you choose two many that aren't a part of your special snowflake government then the game just forcefully swaps you to be an ecologist or a pacifist and your entire kingdom is now utter trash for about 10 turns. Awesome. And this isn't even getting into all the other pop-ups you get from doing anything. And the gameplay IS NOT interesting enough to make up for how boring this pop-up spam is.

I love this game. It's rare that a Sci-Fi game manages to build its own successful and deep lore, with races, planets, etc... (Mass Effect is the only other exception I have in mind). The mood, the graphics, the music! It'll give you a unique space vibe for sure. And here it comes with a very great 4X gameplay, as fun to play solo than in multi (players playing at the same it works well). Such a pleasure to come back to it time to time. Detailed review on some gameplay elements in bulk: eXterminate: Space battles (maybe the weakest part?) -- Not very clear why you win or lose. -- Battle strategy cards are paper rock scissor: they don't bring any value - From one patch to an other, changes a lot how it works. -/+ Nice to watch, it's beautiful. But most of the time you'll just skip them + You can attack on land, adds depth - Blocuss aren't decisive enough eXpand/eXploit: +++ End game has many tools and UI tips to make it manageable and entertaining ++ Diversity of gameplay based on races ++ You can actually play as a pascifist -- Tech Tree: You'll always end up search and develop all branches of the tree more or less in parallel + Diplomacy is fine, sometimes the AI is a bit annoying and stuborn + Politics and population management is cool - Laws don't have a big impact ++ Resources management with luxuary goods is complex but good + Upgrade and terraformation of systems is a real pleasure - Over expension system makes sense but too annoying end game Heroes + Can be assigned to systems or fleets, represent party in senate + Easy to assign - xp gain not clear, annoying to manage end game when a bunch get levels at each turn end game -- Specialization is definitive, and you'll either have an administrator or a fleet leader

The turn glitch is killing the game. Ships won't move, etc. It can sometimes be fixed by restarting, reloading an older save or verifying game files. But it comes right back at you, sometimes even the next turn. Of course this happened well after the 2 Hour mark ... so no refund, yey. Otherwise nice game, but unplayable like this. Can not recommend.

truly the most democratic form of government is a total dictatorship, because only then does my vote matter

nearly a decade old and still reveiving updates, absolutely worth the buy

闪退，进不去了

Something has happened with the battle mechanics. Not sure if it's always been this way. But, for example, say you have 2 fleets in a system and each is 800 str (simplified example). If they come in with a single fleet with 1200 str, you'd think, well I have a combined str of 1600, so I should do well. NOPE. They get to attack one of your fleets at 800 str destroying it while your other fleet I guess just sits there and watches. Then on your turn, you only have a 800 str fleet against their 1,000 or so str fleet after losses. That's totally stupid. I have now uninstalled the game.

Fun, but keeps freezing between mid or late game turns. Reloading leads to the same result on the same turns. Haven't been able to finish a single game yet. Can't recommend it.