Not forgetting that each planet is formed in a specific way, and your people will not always appreciate being made to live on a dry arid planet where food is scarce and you’re exploiting their home for as much Dust as you can get, for those that love to manage, here is your heaven, of course those that don’t you can replace your eagle eyes with a simple AI. Food feeds your population, industry creates ships and developments on your planets, dust pays the bills and science funds your research, and each system may consist of anywhere up to six planets, and each planet may have a moon, with the correct technologies you can colonise every planet in every star system in the galaxy, so you can imagine that the micromanagement gets crazy. The easiest way to rule the galaxy is of course to own it all, and in Endless Space you’ll begin one star system at a time, each system produces FIDS, that’s your food, industry, Dust (currency) and science. For instance, after researching into a technology you can now colonise on icy tundra’s, and desert planets, however that doesn’t mean that your population are going to appreciate it, and as you expand as an empire appeasing your star systems gets extremely tough, and these guys produce the resources required to survive, so you don’t want to upset them! Surprisingly enough, unlike most strategy games that become inherently easier as you soak in as much knowledge as possible, Endless Space manages to make the game more challenging. Depending on your faction and overall victory goal you’ll obviously want to focus on particular skill-sets, and if you want to explore the whole cold expanse of space you’ll need to invest in wormhole technologies and the like, but after one experience of a game you’ll have learnt which skills are valuable to you. Now a strategy is nothing without its skill set, and Endless Space’s research tree is a particularly daunting one split across four categories based on expansion, your armoury, industry and diplomacy. Not only that, but you won’t find yourself lost in menus amidst menus, there’s never more than two screens inside of a selection and to leave any page all you need to do is right click to exit, it sounds simple but its ridiculously effective, and means you won’t be sat scratching your head on any feature in the game. What makes Endless Space very different from its 4X counterparts is for a relatively small development, the game is extremely user friendly, whilst the game includes a very standard tutorial that explains the basics of all the screens that you’ll encounter, literally everything has a tooltip, so if you forget the purpose of an icon, aren’t sure what a trait does, there’ll be a tooltip for it. Shaping your galaxy to your liking is not the only pleasure the game gives, and with a selection of 10 very interesting factions to choose from you’ll be spoilt for choice, as each comes with their own traits and back stories to paw through, and not everyone is necessarily aiming for the same winning conditions in battle, clearly the evil Human Empire are only thinking about owning as much of the galaxy as possible and making as much money out of everything, but then there are the more curious factions like the gentle Amoeba that simply wish to expand and connect with the universe, of course you’ll always have the all-powerful consumer of worlds, the Cravers who wish for nothing but the total consumption of all planets and life.
If anything it allows you to grasp the real scope of the game, leading you to feel somewhat insignificant when you begin on your sole star system in almost a literally Endless Space! Now this is no way bad, if you enjoy customising everything to the finest detail you’ll be overloaded with seven different types of beautiful galaxies to inhabit, a decision on the size of it ranging from tiny to huge clusters of star systems. As strategy games go, they’re a fairly slow breed that revolves around turn based gameplay and are definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, however if you get caught up in one they literally suck your life away.ĤX strategies are known for their deep and complex nature, Endless Space not only offers this in the core game, but in every single instance of its existence, where even the simplest task of creating and choosing your empire becomes an intricate and involving feat. If you’re unaware of the sub-genres of strategy, Endless Space belongs to a glorious selection of games called 4X they require the user to Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate with their grand empire across the vast expanse of space.
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