It doesn’t really allow you to plan very far ahead, and actually makes the game a bit slower to manage. It’s an odd way to do it, and makes building fleets take quite a while sometimes. I’m not sure if I like the fact that money doesn’t build up, but gets reset every 3 minutes based on your income and expenses. Each flagship has a ton of support ships attached to them too, but you don’t control them directly. You even directly control your flagships in a traditional RTS type of way. From money coming in every 3 minutes, to research points generating over time. It even has an insane zoom level to allow you to zoom right on top of your ships, and your ships have a surprising level of detail considering a lot of your time is spent zoomed out.Įverything is played out in real time, rather than ending any turns. I really do quite like the graphical style of the game planets actually move around their sun and you can see little asteroids floating about. It wasn’t quite as comprehensive as I would have hoped though. Luckily most things seem to be laid out rather nicely, and it’s one of the few tutorials that doesn’t overwhelm – something that would have been easy to do in a game such as this. The tutorial is an absolute must, as the game has plenty of unique features that need your attention. It’s true that this isn’t just “yet another 4X space game”, but it’s also not the best either.
I find Star Ruler 2 to be a very different experience over traditional 4X space games, and I’m not entirely sure it’s for the better. I was going into this expecting a turn-based 4X game like the recently released StarDrive 2, but what I found was quite different, and surprisingly interesting to play.
The fate of your empire depends on your ability to master the economy, field a military, influence galactic politics, and learn what you can about the universe. Explore dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of systems in a galaxy of your choosing, expand across its planets, exploit the resources you find, and ultimately exterminate any who stand in your way. Star Ruler 2 is a massive scale 4X/RTS set in space. Star Ruler 2 released out of Early Access last month, so it’s a perfect time to take a look now that it’s considered stable for everyone to play.
It also helps that StarDrive 2 is currently broken, so I have extra time to give Star Ruler 2 for this article. My interest in these types of strategy games has never faltered, and with the release of StarDrive 2 it has spurred me to go over games like it that I missed out on covering. It was released for Linux back in July of last year in Early Access, and it’s about time we gave it some thoughts.
View cookie preferences.Īccept Cookies & Show Direct LinkStar Ruler 2 is a space strategy game I’ve been meaning to cover for some time, and I’ve given it a good go to tell you what I think. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view.
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