Alien Legacy
Alien Legacy is a sci-fi strategy game developed by Ybarra Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994 for MS-DOS.
Alien Legacy is an adventure developed by Ybarra Productions, released 14 May 1994 on DOS.
What Alien Legacy is
Alien Legacy is an adventure game developed by Ybarra Productions and released in 1994. It was published by Sierra On-Line. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After an alien attack in 2043, great technological leaps were made and space travel was significantly improved upon. In 2119, fearing extinction, Earth built gigantic seedships designed as "arks" to propel people and the sum of human knowledge across the stars. One of these seedships, the UNS Calypso, is sent to Beta Caeli star system which is the farthest colony attempted yet. In 2135, a second seedship, the UNS Tantalus, is dispatched to the same destination in order to better the chances of human survival. The Tantalus is equipped with a more advanced fusion engine and thus will reach Beta Caeli some 21 years ahead of the Calypso. The player takes the role of the Calypso's captain. There…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), mystery, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Alien Legacy launched on 14 May 1994, within three weeks of Sensible World of Soccer and Magic Carpet.
Released around the same time: Sensible World of Soccer, Magic Carpet.
Official trailer
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