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Polaris Sector

Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

75 22 March 2016

Polaris Sector is a simulator, released 22 March 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Polaris Sector is

Polaris Sector was released in 2016. It was published by The Slitherine Group. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Polaris Sector holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core i3, 2 GB RAM and DirectX or OpenGL Compatible Video card. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.

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What it launched against

Polaris Sector launched on 22 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.

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Polaris Sector — frequently asked questions

When did Polaris Sector come out?
Polaris Sector was released on 22 March 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Polaris Sector?
At minimum, Polaris Sector needs Core i3, 2 GB RAM, DirectX or OpenGL Compatible Video card graphics, 4 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Polaris Sector?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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