Only the Riftborn are fairly sympathetic, and that’s because the poor things aren’t even from this universe. Every faction forces you to play very differently, and each has interesting mechanics, overcoming what I like to call the Civ Conundrum – where there’s little to tell each nation apart.Īs a bonus (and at the risk of revealing a little too much of my own personality), I like how these factions are all rather dickish – falling into such unsavoury categories as gangsters, zealots, brutes and narcissists. The savage insectoid Cravers are essentially barbarians, while the United Empire are the humans, with an expansionist, pioneering spirit that’s inspired in equal parts by old Soviet and American propaganda. The Vodyani ruined their home planet through over-industrialisation, and travel the universe in massive arks, using them to colonise planets. One race, for example, are the extra-dimensional Riftborn, who were pulled into the Endless universe from a clean white space of perfect geometric shapes, and instead of using food to reproduce, are manufactured using production.
You pick from one of eight factions, each with a distinct style of play that’s come to be a hallmark of Ampitude’s 4X games. It does, however, lack the depth of some of its peers, falling into some typical 4X pacing problems while evading others. It’s more streamlined, deceptively accessible, and does a, ahem, stellar job of weaving in narrative when going through those familiar motions of colonisation, resource-gathering and conquest. Here are a shipload more ace space games for the PC.Įndless Space 2 continues much along the same lines, plucking a few ideas from Endless Legend while replacing the canon of the original Endless Space. Endless Legend (the Civvy-fantasy one) and Endless Space (the spacey-wacey one) entered their respective fields from virtual obscurity and, thanks to their excellent mechanics and some elegant solutions to longstanding 4X problems, established the Endless universe as one worth exploring (and exploiting, exterminating, etc…). The Endless universe of Amplitude Studios’ imagining is a good one, brimming with evocative storytelling, wonderful design of races and creatures, and an adept understanding of the 4X genre.
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