Distant Worlds 2

[Zloth]

I haven't been very excited for DW2. I played DW1 some and really enjoyed the opening parts of the game but, once battles started happening, my interest dropped hard. There was a lot of fancy stuff going on under the hood, I think, but the hood itself.... it looked like big clusters of sprites pew pew'ing each other. What's more, the game was set up so that a Big Baddy race would eventually come after you so battle was pretty going to happen.

I noticed a news item on Steam showing the Distant Worlds gameplay reveal. OK, might as well check it... holy... an 80 minute video!? Uhhh, no, but I did skip around and found the battle system explained:

YOW! That's almost Sword of the Stars level combat! It looks far better than DW1! I'll be keeping my eye on this one for sure.

 

[Colif]

wonders if Zloth remembers posting this? its been sitting waiting to be approved for a while, no idea why forums hid it.

 

[Zloth]

Heck yeah I do - the game is on my wish list! I didn't notice it had dropped off the face of the forum, though. Thanks for the catch!

Now I'm getting excited for it again.

 

[Zloth]

The game has released to fairly positive Steam reviews:

Distant Worlds 2 on Steam

Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

store.steampowered.com

Odd that Slitherine never made a release trailer.