Ben "rL" Martin
The 4Xplorer
Dave "Daveheart" Gwynne
eXplorminate
Joshua "Gwydion" Jacobs
Dallin "Kearon" Holden
Micah "Marlowe" Dutro
Oliver "Mezmorki" Kiley
Matt "nonsense" Gittleson
Nate Nasarog
Sam Spackman
Chris Massey
Ben "TiltedAxis" Alberts
Troy "TC" Costisick
Publisher Iceberg Interactive announced today that Stars in Shadow, the upcoming Master of Orion II-inspired 4X title from Ashdar Games , will enter early access on Steam and other digital platforms on September 15, 2016. Iceberg will also conduct hands-on demos and organize press interviews with Ashdar Games at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany next week. Read the full press release here.
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Stars in Shadow looks to refine the winning formula established by MoO II, while adding its own touches including a distinctive hand-drawn, comic-style art and a rich, detailed backstory.
Other features include:
- Deep turn-based tactical starship combat, with quality-of-life features like multi-ship command to keep large-scale engagements moving quickly
- Seven playable factions, each with unique gameplay elements. Play as one of the young races, just reaching out into the stars, or one of the old races: survivors of a war long past who bear ancient grudges
- A robust diplomacy system
- Empire management that focuses on high-level decisionmaking
- Many planet types, with their own lore and backstory
Not dire at all
So far, there’s no word on when Stars in Shadow will see its full release (the original date of September 2016 now seems unlikely). Here’s a little Stars in Shadow video we made a while back.
Needless to say, we’ll be back with that information and more as it becomes available!
Categories: 4X, Announcements
So when was this game supposed to be out? Wasn’t it more than a year ago? Now we’re getting ‘early access’ in September? Bummer.
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No, I don’t think so. It was supposed to be out this summer.
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I love the art style they have.
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I picked it up already. The game looks, plays, and (recently) sounds great. That said, I’ve put it off until the first drop of the “Robust diplomacy system” makes it into the beta.. as a single player game, that will make it or break it for me no matter how good the rest of it is.
Here’s hoping, though! The devs are very responsive on the forums and they’ve done their own unique and very compelling world-building and art style.
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I’m ready for it. Hope it has enough depth to hook me in for more than a week (few games do that nowadays :P)
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sounds great.
hope they will allow lets play videos from the EA versions or maybe the demo.
looking forward to lets play videos from explorminate :)
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That’s the plan.
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I’m really looking forward to playing this guy!
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