Posts Tagged ‘indie’

Stellar Indie Venture: Red Shift By Adam Solo on May 30th, 2012 at 11:19 am Couple of days ago I stumbled into Red Shift, a new space 4X game that is currently in the making by indie adventurer Elliott Hill. Category: Games Under Development, Stellar Indie Venture 30 comments

Star Prospector Giveaway Contest [CLOSED] By Adam Solo on May 22nd, 2012 at 5:34 pm The good folks of Cryptstone Studios have sent us 5 keys of their game Star Prospector to distribute over the Space Sector readers and fans. Category: Contests 75 comments

Beyond Beyaan Preview By Adam Solo on April 17th, 2012 at 4:36 pm Beyond Beyaan is a 4X turn-based space strategy game that is heavily inspired in the Master of Orion series, especially by the original MoO game. Category: Game Previews 6 comments

Novus Aeterno Wants You! – A Space 4X MMO with No End? By Adam Solo on April 12th, 2012 at 7:34 am Novus Aeterno is a new seamlessly persistent sci-fi MMORTS game for the PC from Taitale Studios. Category: Game Previews, News & Announcements 11 comments

Xenonauts Preview By Adam Solo on April 10th, 2012 at 11:06 am After playing the early alpha build for a couple of hours I can officially say that Xenonauts totally captures the original game's atmosphere and gameplay. Category: Game Previews, Games Under Development 12 comments

Star Prospector: New Patch and Free DLC with New Tower-Defense Game Mode By Adam Solo on April 4th, 2012 at 5:56 am Cryptstone Games has announced the release of a major new Star Prospector patch (v1.1) and a new free DLC. Category: Game Patches, News & Announcements 4 comments

How Simple Can a Space Strategy Game Be? Solstice – First Impressions By Adam Solo on March 1st, 2012 at 12:23 pm Solstice is a 3D real-time space strategy game for the Android market developed by Deepseaweed, an indie game developer. Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews 0 comments

Blue Libra Review By Adam Solo on February 10th, 2012 at 11:01 am Blue Libra is a small, yet fun, and very addicting space game, that can give you some hours of good spacey entertainment. Category: Game Reviews 6 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown vs Xenonauts – The Debate Starts By Adam Solo on January 21st, 2012 at 4:11 am On one side there's X-COM inspired Xenonauts,produced by Goldhawk Interactive. On the other side there's Take-Two/2K/Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Who wins? We'll see this fall 2012. Category: Game Previews, Games Under Development 16 comments

Gratuitous Tank Battles: Alpha Battle Footage By Adam Solo on November 11th, 2011 at 2:46 am Positech Games, or UK Indie pc-developer Cliff Harris, released a new video showing off the battles, the tower-defense side of the game. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 2 comments

Renations: An Online Sci-Fi Strategy Game Announced By Adam Solo on September 15th, 2011 at 1:17 pm Pikaia Games announced Renations, a free online browser-based strategy game (MMORTS) set in a post apocalyptic world. Category: Free online games, Games Under Development, News & Announcements 0 comments

Beyond Beyaan: Indie 4X Space Strategy Game Inspired by Master of Orion By Adam Solo on September 1st, 2011 at 2:38 am Beyond Beyaan is an indie 4x space strategy game currently being developed by Brent Patterson. It is heavily inspired by the 4x classic Master of Orion series. Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews, Games Under Development 6 comments

10 Min Space Strategy Review By Adam Solo on June 18th, 2011 at 6:25 pm In Goblin Lunatics' own words 10 Min Space Strategy is a free "compact, quick turn-based 4x (space) strategy" PC game. Their intention was to make a not so complex space strategy game that still requires the player to decide a great deal of strategy. Category: Game Reviews 22 comments

Space Pirates and Zombies (SPAZ) BETA Review (version 0.9.0005) By Kyle Rees on May 29th, 2011 at 1:53 am I would recommend this game to fans of the genre. While I have personally made comparisons to Star Control II, SPAZ has certainly earned its own place among this type of games. Category: Game Reviews 2 comments

Astriarch – Ruler of the Stars: New Indie Space TBS Gold 1.0 Released – First Impressions By Adam Solo on May 19th, 2011 at 9:50 pm Astriarch is probably one of the simplest space strategy games I've ever played and its brilliance is only surpassed by how strikingly simple it is to play. Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews, News & Announcements 5 comments

10 Minute Space Strategy: Indie 4x TBS Game Announced (with Demo!) By Adam Solo on February 26th, 2011 at 10:25 pm In Goblin Lunatics own words, 10 Minute Space Strategy is “a turn-based space strategy [game] that is focused on quick play sessions, abstract mechanisms and high replayability“. I agree :) Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews, News & Announcements 6 comments

Gratuitous Space Battles Review By Adam Solo on July 22nd, 2010 at 5:20 pm Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy and simulation game that does not contain all the traditional elements of a 4x space strategy game but rather concentrates in ship design and space battles. Category: Game Reviews 6 comments