Stellar Sovereigns

[Martok]

Just released on Thursday.  I backed it a while ago on itch, and installed it on Steam yesterday.  Hoping to check it out sometime this next week. 


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211840/Stellar_Sovereigns/

It's not going to be for everyone.  It looks fairly tight from a design standpoint, however, and it's already a lot more polished than a lot of games are at release.  A number of folks have been comparing it to Sword of the Stars, for whatever that's worth. 

[bbmike]

...and RTS combat...   

[Martok]

Like I said, it isn't going to be for everyone. Personally, I've always enjoyed the combination of turn-based empire management and real-time combat myself (part of the reason I'm a fan of the Total War series), but that's me.

The developer was also careful to keep to a pretty tight design and limit feature creep, which I respect. It does lead to a 4x that feels like it might be a bit more focused on combat and war (rather like SotS) than is normally my cup of tea, but at least it knows what kind of game it wants to be.