Distant Worlds - Return of the Shakturi Game Info(PC)
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An ancient evil is returning to the vast universe of Distant Worlds! The Return of the Shakturi is the highly anticipated expansion to the critically acclaimed 4X space strategy game Distant Worlds. In addition to a long list of new features and improvements, Return of the Shakturi includes two new and unique alien races complete with riveting events that expand upon the original Distant Worlds and move the timeline of the universe forward into its next chapter with exciting new endgame options. A completely new and vastly expanded research system with comprehensive new tech trees awaits, with new tech and options for avid ship designers such as fighters, bombers, missiles, Ion weapons, planetary facilities, regional capitols, and much more!
Return of the Shakturi also comes packed with interface improvements like an Empire Navigation Tool to provide quick access to everything in your empire, Action Buttons for one-click access to common tasks, an Enemy Targets list showing all known enemy threats, Build Orders to mass-produce groups of new ships in one simple step, and much more! All this coupled with new Empire Policies to fine tune the auto-management of your empire, new galaxy shapes, and extended modding support make Return of the Shakturi an essential add-on to the vast, living galaxy of Distant Worlds!
Features
- New backstory
- Two new alien races with exciting storyline events!
- Next chapter of the storyline where a possible intergalactic menace returns!
- Fighters and Carriers
- Build fighter bay components into ships and bases
- Fighters launch from carriers to intercept enemies: standard fighters that attack other fighters, bombers that attack ships and bases. Several fighter and bomber variants available with research.
- Completely new Research system with comprehensive tech trees
- Greatly expanded technology options with customizable research costs allow you to tailor your game to your liking!
- Queue multiple research projects in each tree, crash research to obtain new tech faster
- Some research projects improve existing components, minimizing the need to retrofit ships and bases to obtain new tech advantages
- New tech for your ships and bases
- Missiles faster and longer range than torpedoes
- Ion Weapons fire ion bolts that disable weapons and engines of enemy ships
- Ion Defense protects ships and bases from the effects of ion weapons
- Point Defense Cannons attack enemy fighters and bombers
- Fleet Targeting Uplink improve weapons targeting of all nearby ships
- Fleet Area ECM improve countermeasures of all nearby ships
- Area Shield Restore quickly recharge shields of your nearby ships when in battle
- HyperBlock Components provide safe zone around space ports, pulling enemy ships out of hyperspace before they reach a target
- Trace Scanners reveal internal details of enemy ships and bases
- Planetary Facilities built at colonies
- Troop Academy trains elite troops with high strength
- Robotic Troop Foundry manufactures robotic troops
- Troop Cloning Facility clones the best troops in your empire
- Giant Ion Cannon fires disabling ion bolts at invading enemy ships
- Planetary Shield defends the colony against enemy bombardment
- Regional Capital provides additional capitals in your empire, reducing corruption in nearby colonies
- User Interface Improvements
- Action Buttons - One-click access to common tasks, enabling you to easily manage most of your empire directly from the main screen
- Colonize planets, build mining stations and other bases
- Construct new ships and bases at space ports and colonies
- Select enemy targets to attack
- Empire Navigation Tool - Set of scrollable lists that provide quick access to everything in your empire: colonies, space ports, fleets, potential colonies, potential mining stations, etc.
- Hover over an item in the list to ping its location in the main view
- Click an item in the list to select it, double-click an item to move to it
- Enemy Targets List - Shows all known enemy targets
- Click a target to assign the nearest available fleet to attack it
- Or cycle your fleets to attack with the selected fleet
- Build Orders - Mass-produce many new ships in one simple step
- Fleet enhancements
- Automated Fleet formation generates both large and small sized fleets to more effectively handle both offense and defense
- Automated Fleets automatically respond to intercept nearby enemies without additional player management
- Other
- Empire Policies: More detailed control over the automation of your empire set policy options that your advisers will enact for you, allowing you to focus on the strategic level.
- New galaxy shapes in game setup
- Extended modding support
- Access to tech descriptions during Diplomacy
- Many other minor improvements
- Play Distant Worlds in windowed mode minimize the window while your game plays in the background
- Please note: Distant Worlds Return of the Shakturi REQUIRES ownership of the original full Distant Worlds game.
Distant Worlds - Legends Game Info(PC)
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Distant Worlds: Legends is the highly anticipated second expansion to the critically acclaimed 4X space strategy game Distant Worlds. Legends is a huge step forward which brings the Distant Worlds universe to life. A new character system includes Leaders, Admirals, Generals, Governors, Ambassadors, Scientists and Agents, each with defined abilities and traits and opportunities to advance and grow over time. Expanded gameplay for all existing races includes new race-specific events, technologies and victory conditions which create a completely different game depending on your choices. An expanded tech tree also awaits, with dedicated carriers, cutting lasers, rail guns, new planetary facilities and wonders, and much more (including a new hidden faction)!
Distant Worlds: Legends also includes a new model for borders and spheres of influence for each faction, as well as new fleet management and automation commands. The interface has been improved with additional overlays for the main galaxy map, including route indicators for all ships and fleet posture indicators, all to make it easier to keep track of activity and strategy. A new setup option allows galaxies to also be larger in map size as well as number of stars. Empire Policies have been expanded with new options and Diplomacy has been overhauled to be much more intelligent and to include mining and refuelling rights. Finally, the AI has been improved in all areas and modding support has been greatly expanded to allow modders to take full advantage of all the new features.
All of this together makes Distant Worlds: Legends an essential addition to the vast, living galaxy of Distant Worlds!
Features
- New character system, including Leaders, Admirals, Generals, Ambassadors, Governors, Agents and Scientists, all with defined skills and traits and the opportunity to advance and improve
- New modelling of borders and spheres of influence
- New expanded gameplay with race-specific events and victory conditions, as well as a new hidden faction!
- Expanded technology tree, including dedicated carriers, cutting lasers, rail guns, new planetary facilities and wonders
- Improved AI and an updated Diplomacy system with refuelling and mining rights as well as immigration policies
- Improved fleet management and automation, including fleet postures
- Improved modding support, including full race and character modding
- Please note: Distant Worlds Legends REQUIRES ownership of the original full Distant Worlds game.
Distant Worlds Game Info(PC)
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Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Vast galaxies are made to order: up to 1400 star systems, with up to 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Galaxies are so deep, fun and immersive that you won’t want to finish the game... Build, expand and improve your empire endlessly. The galaxy is packed with life and activity. Encounter other empires, independent alien colonies, traders, pirates and space monsters. Explore star systems, asteroid fields, gas clouds, supernovae, galactic storms and black holes. Discover evidence of civilizations long since past, uncovering secrets about the galaxy's troubled history...
Best of all, you can play the game your way: enjoy a quick, intense game in a crowded galaxy or take your time in an epic game spread across a vast galaxy!
Features
- Truly Epic-Scale Galaxies: play in galaxies with up to 1400 star systems and 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Vast nebula clouds spiral out from the galactic core, shaping the distribution of star clusters in the galaxy
- Private Enterprise: the private citizens of your empire automatically take care of mundane tasks like mining resources, transporting cargo, migration between colonies, tourism and much more. This frees you from micro-management and instead allows you to focus on a macro-scale
- Intelligent Automation: automate the various tasks in your empire, so that you can focus on the areas that you enjoy most. Or have your advisors make suggestions in different areas like colonization, defence or diplomacy helping you learn the best tactics and strategies
- Explore: explore the vast galaxy, discovering valuable resources, potential colonies for your empire and making contact with other empires. Uncover secrets that lift the veil on the galaxys mysterious past...
- Colonize: send out colony ships to found new worlds for your empire. Develop your new colonies by keeping them well-supplied with a steady stream of valuable resources
- Defend: patrol the outlying areas of your empire to protect from raiding pirates or dangerous space monsters. Construct defensive bases at your colonies. Build up your fleets to defend against enemy empires. Recruit troops to invade enemy colonies and conquer the galaxy!
- Diplomacy: interact with other empires, discussing treaties, making trade offers or just giving them a piece of your mind. Talk to pirate factions, tapping into their underground information, or paying them to do your dirty work for you...
- Espionage: covertly seek out information about other empires, or even disrupt their progress with acts of sabotage
- Research: develop new technologies for use in building your own unique ships and star bases
- Build: design and build the ships and star bases in your empire. Construct mighty military ships at your space ports, or build mining stations, research installations or secret monitoring facilities at remote locations throughout the galaxy
- Built-in Game Editor: fine-tune your own galaxy, adding or removing star systems, planets, asteroid fields, ships, star bases, space monsters or anything else. Modify the attributes of any empire in your game
- Extensive Help: exhaustive, built-in, context-sensitive help is always only a single key-press away. Press F1 at any time for a detailed explanation of the current game screen, your currently selected item, etc
- Tutorials: in-game tutorials familiarize you with all of the game elements and tools
- Built-in Customization: modify all ship art, alien races, and much more. Switch between different customization sets with a couple of mouse clicks from the main game menu
Democracy Game Info(PC)
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Democracy is an intelligent and sophisticated game that will entertain you, but could also teach you a thing or two about politics as well. You may think that politics is about sticking to your principles no matter what, but in Democracy you'll quickly see just how easy it is to "compromise" those principles to keep your seat in government and how hard it is to balance the conflicting priorities of your constituents.
Democracy starts with you in the role of President (or Prime Minister) of a modern country. Choose from twelve real countries, ranging from the United States to Australia. Each country is run as a democracy where you need to get over 50% of the vote in each election in order to remain in power and the popularity of your policies can affect your and your party's future. The object of the game is to stay in power as long as possible while pursuing policies that will turn your country into your definition of a utopia. There are no limits to the number of terms you may serve, as long as you continue to be re-elected.
As the game progresses, you influence your constituent groups by putting new policies into place, changing existing policies and dealing with new and unexpected dilemmas. There are dozens of different policy areas in several general categories, including Foreign Affairs, Public Services, Taxes, Transport, Welfare and so on. Different voting groups will have very different and often conflicting views as to which policies are desirable. If you make your voters mad enough, in some countries you may even face the threat of revolution or assassination, so watch your step!
Can you keep your voters happy while keeping the budget balanced? Will you be re-elected or viewed as a one term failure? Play Democracy and find out!
Features
- Plenty of never-before-seen events and dilemmas, some of which may seem similar to recent world events
- Choose from twelve different real-world countries
- Manage each turn of government development including policy changes, population agenda, re-election and control of legislature, budget decisions, satisfaction of constituent groups
- Over 80 different policy changes, each with an emphasis slider you can create a limitless number of political combinations to push whatever agenda you wish
Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris Game Info(PC)
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From Warsaw to Paris… and then on to London!
The development team behind the award-winning game Advanced Tactics: World War II is back with a new and improved game engine that focuses on the decisive early days of World War II! Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris is the first in an innovative series of operational World War II wargames that also include a strategic element. The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris simulates Germany’s military successes in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940 (including also a hypothetical “Sea Lion” invasion of Great Britain if you do well enough).
Well researched and packed with depth, including detailed unit data down to the squad and vehicle level and historically realistic combined arms gameplay, The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris also features an easy-to-learn interface and a ferocious AI. Before each campaign, players choose actions and options at a strategic level which can have far-reaching effects on how the actual battle unfolds, with many plausible hypothetical outcomes.
Once in the battle, players move regiments and divisions, coordinate attacks and manage logistics in what we feel is the definitive game on the campaigns of the early Blitzkrieg. There are also unique actions for individual historical generals to give a particular objective or front the extra needed push to victory. Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris also includes a unique multiplayer feature where players can split up Axis or Allied armies between several people to add an added level of realism and cooperation!
Features
- Thoroughly researched scenarios that provide fantastic realism and depth
- Scenarios come with multiple What if? options that you can mix and match for added replayability
- A campaign option that allows play of all three scenarios with continuity so losses, etc. transfer over
- Meticulously researched units, officers, troops and equipment with plenty of historical background and information
- Historical OOBs of Dutch, Belgian, French, British, Polish and German armies in 1939/1940
- Officers represented on Corps level and higher with biographies, individualized stats and special action cards
- Bonuses for concentric attack, divisional cohesion and HQ influence
- Realistic logistics modelling supply and replacements
- Team play options to allow up to 9 people to PBEM it out against each other or the AI
- Free setup variant to change the initial historical dispositions and try different defensive or offensive strategies
- Three map zoom levels to aid in portraying the strategic, operational, and tactical picture
- Detailed combat resolution so you can analyze the performance of your forces in combat
- Very large screen resolutions supported for massive displays (appropriate system specifications required)