![]() It took me four hours to play through the majority of the tutorial, and I was still getting popups over 100 turns into my first game. The genre is pretty intimidating, and despite the attractive interface, ES2 certainly doesn’t look very friendly to newcomers at the outset. ![]() I’ve dabbled in Civilization and its offshoots, but wouldn’t describe myself as a 4X veteran. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.Įndless Space 2 ( ES2) is the most PC of PC games I’ve played in a long while. ![]() Once the robo-bugs learn the secret of warp drive, they’ll move in and wipe us out. ![]() They seem totally uninterested in negotiating peace, and the only reason my patrol ships are able to escape them is their superior engines and ability to bypass the beaten path. Meanwhile, I’ve made accidental first contact with a local cyborg insectoid race who live by one rule: expand, or die. Raiders and pirates are blockading my most valuable colony worlds, and since my empire can’t seem to protect them, there’s talk of revolution on half a dozen systems. My heavy investment in scientific pursuits over militarism means that although we have better tech than the competition, we’re not nearly as good at getting steel on target, and the enemy has been probing my meager defenses for what feels like decades. The clock ceased to be a concern quite a while ago.
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