Endless Space 2 is free to play this weekend! It's the game I wholeheartedly want to suggest to you to try out. It's also 50% off at the moment which is a rare occurancy in my book when it comes to this game.
It became my favourite even before it left Early Access half a year or so ago. Yesterday, we got the Galactic Statecraft Upgrade which enhances Diplomacy. Diplomacy was a bit of the weakest points of the game yet. I can't wait to try out the new options.
As for what's new, too: Pirate Lairs. In my latest game I set minor difficulty to "hard" and got "rewarded" with a pirate lair popping up on my system of interest.
This is going to be such a tough game. Pirates in the beginning will make me focus on military. I'm playing Sophons which are already hard to play. They're science focussed and now I have to see that I don't play around much and get a good fleet going fast to shut down that damn Pirate Lair!
The awesome thing about this game are options for many situations. That's why I have to smile when I see some of the questions of new players every now and then: what's the best build order in the beginning, etc.? Reminds me of should I go the Great Library route and get Petra by turn xyz.
There's really none route. I have to adapt like the BORG to every situation, to my position and to my ressources. And the even nice thing is that the game lets me adapt.
This game is well polished now. And the most important thing is that the devs really care about it. Whenever I encountered a bug, I always got answer from a dev. New AMD driver messing things up? Took them a couple of days at best to fix a shader related issue where I had to wait weeks with other games.
I could write much more. Since it's free this weekend, you should really check it out. I haven't regretted buying that game. And I regret buying lots of games this year.
