Interstellar Espionage Inc.

Hey Kids! Are you looking for a turn-based Space 4X where you eXplore a galaxy, eXpand your empire, research techs and then eXploit opposition enough to the point where you actually eXterminate them? Then y..... Wait what? Fancy Raven Game informs me this is not actually a 4X game and it doesn't wish to be associated as such... OK. Let's restart... Hey Kids. Do you like Economic games where you run a spy company? Finding wealthy Corporations, sending Hackers, Agents and data interceptors to do missions, stealing data and then selling it to the highest bidder!? Amassing huge sums of wealth, and destroying countless untold lives like a future Bernie Madoff or Jordan Belfort!! How do you do that you ask??? Yes that's right... By doing exactly what I said at the start. OK it's not a 4X, but it is, and it isn't. Yes IEI is built on that template and whilst you will do the fundamental basics of the genre. You're EvE Onlining in the most basic way possible the game's economy to min/max expenditure and profit. The game tells you what industries are on an upturn and the best way to acquire them. You target a corporation, pay for the job as cheap as possible with the best success rate, whilst seeing your potential return. You do this with all your agencies. Lock it all in and end the turn. Jobs will either fail or succeed. If you succeed you weaken the corporation (potentially making them bankrupt), and you sell the data to the highest bidding competition. Fail, and the target competition may retaliate, making your job harder. The game continues with you exploring more Corporations to target, expanding your reach to do more jobs and become more powerful. Exploiting the Corporations against one another, and exterminating them off the map so data becomes more profitable as it becomes harder and rarer to attain. Victory is surviving 15 turns and being judged on your final bank balance... No ships, no combat, no colonies, no diplomacy. Just a failed white-collar worker who got mad he didn't make Emperor in a 4X game and got stuffed into a dank office on a Space station. Only to be told he has 15 years to make the Empire some money so they can build a colony ship and a small fleet. That's this game, and it's really quite fun. Average Game time is 30-60mins. Or if you really wanna go nuts you could get analysis paralysis and take 150 - 180mins. Because why not. Just remember this is not a 4X game.

This game has a good concept, but truly glaring UI issues that are visible right out of the gate. From the second turn of the game, you are flooded with one to two dozen special 'data orders' from a dozen different factions, basically giving you direction as to what kind of targets would be unusually valuable for what kind of recipients. This seems fine, except the UI is poorly-designed to handle, track, or communicate these data orders in an even passably accessible manner. You can open up a tab showing you all of the effective data orders with some sorting functionality, but it requires scrolling to be useful, the scroll is bad, and it's missing sorely-needed filtering options (like "only show me data orders from factions I can actually trade with"). Further, this tab is not readable at a glance, cannot be used to actually find/zoom in on specific targets, and conflicts with a UI that will become cluttered with other information very quickly. When clicking on a potential mission target (out of dozens or hundreds of possibilities), you do get informed as to what data orders exist for that data, thankfully, but there's no way to do the inverse - to click on a faction and be told what data orders that particular faction is asking for (which is arguably more important as the game places a high significance on holding specific faction alliances/friendships, or managing their strength and reputation). In general, this game is dying for information to be delivered in aggregate, clearly-visible and tabulable forms. Sortable and filterable spreadsheets, like you'll find in various other strategy games. But instead it's tons and tons of tooltips and poorly considered list-fragments. All of these UI problems become so much worse when the different factions/corporations can have nearly identical names and badge appearances - "Force Munitions" and "Force Command" with nearly-identical chevron designs in a green palette is not helpful when I'm trying to work out who is giving me orders for what (and what blueprints are available from where) across twenty different factions on the second turn of the game! On top of that, core game mechanics - like combined operations - are poorly explained in the tutorial despite there being very few mechanics at all to engage with. For example, I still don't know why combined operations appeared to have a higher success rate than individual operations in the tutorial but a lower success rate in actual gameplay. The tutorial doesn't seem to explain other important pieces of information, like whether the placement of your hacking (and similar) facilities matter at all (as far as I can tell, the placement doesn't matter at all except to act as relays to build admin centers with, who's placement DOES matter). There is some great concepts and AI/economic logic going on behind this game, but it is so bad at conveying, tracking, or filtering the actual gameplay to players that I cannot recommend this game to anyone.

Not really for me. Gave game a chance, I can see the potential and gameplay loop might be fun for some, just not for me. Don't see any reason to downvote though

Interstellar Espionage Inc is a nifty cashflow-management game with a space spying varnish. The game is relatively simply to figure out, but takes a bit more familiarization to understand all the nuances, especially in regards the success/failure percentages and factors influencing them. The game does not have a plot, though there is some story telling. A plot-driven mode could be a possibility, as the setting has clear elements from which it could be developed. The graphics are decent though zooming out in the galaxy makes everything more or less similar. The UI is slightly window-heavy and can get a bit chaotic if you click haphazardly and forget what you were doing. The hacking/intercepts/agent hubs are somewhat random sci-fi blobs and it is easy to forget which hub does what. The main game seemed to be missing any music, even though the main menu screen has a music. The setting would be prefect for a low-fi cybersynt soundtrack. The game scratches an spreadsheet and number go up based itch and does it well. The game is clearly in the small studio product end of the indie scale, but is still quite smooth and effortless to play.

《Interstellar Espionage Inc.》是一款看起来很高大上挺复杂的4X游戏，实则是一款机制挺简单的回合制策略游戏。游戏里我们需要经营一个星际间谍公司，在宇宙里进行探索和运营操作，窃取其他公司的机密，并将之交易给它的竞争对手，以此获利。 游戏采用了较为简单的像素风，整个宇宙、星球、空间站的图形都略为简单，UI也是很简单的那种，但用来游玩这么个机制也是略微简单的游戏也算足够了。 游戏乍一看以为会是和4X游戏那么复杂，其实真正操作起来来来去去就那几步，建筑也并不是那么多。基本就是探测器探索，建造中继站、运营枢纽和行政中心来运营，然后选择覆盖范围内的各个空间站上的公司信息，在比例和金钱之间进行选择，然后就等着结算获利就行了！当然，高级点的复合操作能提高成功率，这点在新手教程的最后几步上有明确的指导，这么说罢，整个游戏其实就是新手教程的若干步扩展！这里没法使用“无数步”，这也是因为游戏的流程并不长，顺利的话基本30多分钟一局，不顺利的话就是几分钟就自己破产了，难啃一点啃到90分钟的应该较难遇到的。 整个游戏就是商业机密之间的竞争，无论是特工、黑客、还是拦截，都是为了窃取机密而已。至于成功率，其实有点迷，有时候百分之0也是能成功的，很是奇怪。但不管怎么说，《Interstellar Espionage Inc.》这么一个小体量的游戏，勉强当个代餐什么的，还是可以的。 [quote] 游玩百态，将游玩心得用汉语化作玩家的指明灯，(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ [url= https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402408/]点击这里关注汉化语录~[/url] 如果喜欢这个评测，请点个赞让更多人看见 [/quote]

0 bugs, number go bigger, build your empire and retire at 35. What else is there to ask?

A little confusing at times, but a decent game. https://youtu.be/yhqB2sx5WyM

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