Sid Meier's Starships
Sid Meier’s Starships challenges players to build a planetary federation by exploring the galaxy, expanding its influence and domain, researching futuristic technologies and engaging in deep, turn-based…
Sid Meier's Starships is a strategy developed by Firaxis Games, released 12 March 2015 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sid Meier's Starships is
Sid Meier's Starships is a strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2015. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sid Meier’s Starships challenges players to build a planetary federation by exploring the galaxy, expanding its influence and domain, researching futuristic technologies and engaging in deep, turn-based tactical space combat with an armada of uniquely customizable starships. Each new campaign will feature its own distinctive galactic strategy map of worlds with dynamically generated tactical combat missions that will enhance the game’s replay value. In addition, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth fans who purchase Sid Meier’s Starships will uncover cross-connectivity with the two games such that will enhance and expand the depth of both game experiences.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 31 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Sid Meier's Starships holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD4000 or better integrated graphics. 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 1GB.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's Starships launched on 12 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.
Official trailer
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