Cleared to dock.
Starbase Orion creator Rocco Bowling’s latest game is now out worldwide on the App Store. Starbase Annex is set in the same universe as Bowling’s Master of Orion-inspired 4X game but it’s much simpler. Despite the 4X theme, this is definitely the least complex game that Chimera Software have put out yet, so don’t go into this expecting a card-driven Twilight Struggle featuring Bowling’s creepy-crawly aliens or anything.
An individual game of Starbase Annex plays quickly: you get points to buy ship and colony cards that you lay on a hex board across from your opponent, then manoeuvre your fleets to try and capture hers’. There’s no multiplayer here, just a nice, long single-player campaign against increasingly devious AIs. It’s good light entertainment and there’s plenty of it.
Rocco told us right here in the PT Forums that an Android version is in the works, but for now this one’s just on the App Store for $2.
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