Distant Worlds: Universe

Code Force · May 23, 2014

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Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, 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 while playing through one of the storylines, with victory conditions or in an open-ended sandbox mode.

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Critic 8.2 (5 critics) · Gamer 7.4

Critic reviews

Euro Gamer
Daniel Starkey · Jun 30, 2014
7.0
So much happens in the background that, even on a high-end machine, this graphically bland game chugs more often than you would expect. While Distant Worlds may be a paragon of its style, I can only recommend it to a select few: those with beefy computers and plenty of time to really dig into the meat of this stunningly elegant and impressively wide-ranging bit of software.
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Fraser Brown · Jun 27, 2014
9.0
Distant Worlds: Universe is an exceedingly complex, infinitely rewarding space strategy game. It’s made me more excited about the genre than any other game of its kind since Galactic Civilizations II. All of those numbers and systems that hold the simulation together create these dramatic stories, ones about gallant captains constantly pushing back the frontier, races under the thumb of pirates rising up and taking back their independence and wars between empires that spread throughout the galaxy like wildfire.
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Game Watcher
Michael Johnson · Jun 12, 2014
9.0
A vast galaxy, a varied tech-tree, and a million and one decisions to make or automate. Distant Worlds: Universe is perhaps the finest 4x Space game in a generation, certainly since Galactic Civilizations 2. It's a challenging and complex game packed with features that allows you to choose just how you want to play it, while accommodating a wide variety of play-styles and strategies.
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Gamekult
Thomas Mangot · Jun 04, 2014
8.0
Chargé en contenu au point d'en devenir terrifiant, personnalisable jusqu'au bout des astéroïdes et complètement modifiable via l'éditeur intégré, Distant Worlds : Universe est le genre de friandise qui va nécessiter un palais d'initié et de multiple bouchées avant d'être appréciée.
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IGN
Claudio Chianese · May 31, 2014
7.9
Non ci sono le bizzarrie tecnologiche di un Master of Orion II né le galassie pittoriche di Endless Space, solo un gameplay austero e rigoroso. Tutta sostanza, insomma: per fortuna ce n'è un bel po', di sostanza.
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