Ultimately, you can end up with a handful of powerful ships, or a large fleet of weaker ships. You can outfit your ships however you like, so long as you have enough resources. A rear hit, for example, can be devastating. Critical hits will disable vital systems like weapons, shields, and engines, which can be maximized by hitting enemy space craft from specific directions. In one encounter, my ships were clearly outmatched and outnumbered, but I managed to win by ducking through wormholes and launching a series of guerrilla strikes. Ship combat is very satisfying, and I love the feeling of victory when the odds were firmly stacked against me. This is where the narrative connection with Beyond Earth starts to fall apart, since it essentially means that you've traveled halfway across the galaxy to meet up with a group of leaders who look and act almost identically to the ones you left behind. Choosing an Affinity and leader provides bonuses, some short term, while others last throughout the game.
However, Affinities play no political role like they do in Beyond Earth. The game reuses a lot of the same themes and graphics from Beyond Earth, including the three Affinities (Supremacy, Harmony, and Purity) and faction leaders. Whether you'll meet on friendly or adversarial terms is up to you. You receive a signal from deep space, supposedly from a second colony ship dispatched from Earth, so you set your sights on that part of the galaxy to meet with the lost colony. Starships acts as a continuation of the Beyond Earth story, which supposes that you've successfully set up a working world government on an alien world, and are now ready to take to the stars again. Although the ship combat can be challenging and exciting, the rest may leave you wishing for more. A feeling that is underscored by how it can't be run in full screen mode on the PC (just full screen windowed).
Even for an inexpensive game that is simultaneously released for PC, Mac and iOS, Starships treads a fine line between being a casual game and a deep tactical strategy game. The point of the game is to build and support a fleet of space ships as they travel from one planet to another, completing missions to win influence over each world, until they finally decide to join your alliance.
The game is called Starships, not Sid Meier's Galaxies. When talking about Sid Meier's Starships, one thing should probably be cleared up right away.
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