Review: Endless Space  by on  The turn-based strategy genre has
long counted sci-fi galactic settings among its repertoire. The
Masters of Orion series and the Galactic Civilizations series
are both excellent (not to mention the masterful Alpha
Centauri), and for faster-paced real-time play Sins of a Solar
Empire has in recent years been at the top of the heap. So what
does Endless Space bring to the table? Primarily this: since
Galactic Civilizations, there has yet to be a killer turn-based
space faring game. Second, Endless Space innovates in the genre
in interesting ways by combining gameplay aspects successful
elsewhere but as of yet not introduced into this specific
medium. Third, no other contemporary 4X strategy game in space
feels as authentically sci-fi compared to this. Endlessly
interesting technologies, beautifully rendered planets with
diverse bonus phenomena, a synth-heavy score; rather than add a
coat of paint, the science fiction universe laid out in Endless
Space is aesthetically superb and i