Sid Meier's Starships for Android

This is really dumb. I don't have a right click on my mouse.

I couldn't get past the starting "mission", basic move commands wouldn't work.

I didn’t get anything out of this game. Like everyone else says, it’s hideously underdeveloped. After less than ten hours of play you’ll pretty much have the whole game figured out. I’d say it reaches less than 5% of its potential. The premise is good & some aspects are there, but there’s no depth at all. It would have barely been acceptible in the 90’s. It's boring.

Civilization was great. Fairly deep, lots of things you could or could not do. This game pales by comparison: * All ships are the same - and build the same. * Graphics have many glitches (explosions taking 60 seconds - and there will be lots of them). * The kinks haven’t been worked out of basic game play (infinite loops on certain conditions, crashes). * No real variation between the group selections. * A very short play with little to no story and no flavor. * Game balance is entirely off - some “Wonders” (which are essentially technological advantages instead of anything amazing or wonderful) are entirely more powerful than others. I played it once, it was fun… for about 1.5 hours. Then I tried to play again but it was too boring.

I downloaded this game a few days ago and have been happily playing it since then. I will admit that I have a fairly low bar when it comes to games such as this, so having said that, I haven’t been disappointed with it. Also, this is my 1st experience with any of the Sid Meier games so, I have no real frame of reference for them. I have a 2011 13” Android with an i7 chip and this game runs rather well on my hardware, which I appreciate. I’ve successfully played 3 different games, playing on both easy and moderate and have had few issues. The game did quit unexpectedly once and, I’ve had to restart a couple of times due to a sound glitch that was merely a simple annoyance rather than a game stopper. I do not have a retina screen so, the graphics are nothing to wow the senses but, the game is colorful and pleasant to view. Even with retina, I doubt the game’s graphics would be particularly noteworthy. Overall, it seems to be a rather lightweight game that will run at least decently on hardware that is a number of years old. The game-play experience is rather straightforward without a great deal of complexity. The main goal is to expand your territory by traveling to planets and performing missions. Once you acquire enough influence [displayed as ring segments around the planet from 0 to 4], that planet joins your federation and you receive all the resources from that planet. Building cities and installing/upgrading factories and technology increases their resource generation. The ships of your fleet have a number of systems for you to upgrade as your progress. They are the usual suspects like: engines, shields, armor, weapons systems, torpedoes, sensors, stealth and fighters. Combat is nothing out of the ordinary but, you can apply some strategy for a change of pace in lieu of simply hammering the other ships. Some of the missions don’t allow your entire fleet to participate but, most of them do with the outcome most always in your favor on both easy and moderate settings. The missions are colored: green, amber, and red to show their difficulty rating which doesn’t come into play that much on the lower game settings. I haven’t yet tried anything above moderate as yet so, I cannot speak to how that might alter the game play. My personal opinion is that $10 might be a bit too much for a game like this but, I’m not sorry that I bought it. It’s the kind of thing I enjoy just sitting down to play for a while as a fun distraction. It isn’t so involved that you really have to dive deep and plan out your strategy in order to win. You can just play and enjoy it for what it is. There is definitely room for improvements and additions which could possibly further enrich the game an extend it’s re-play value. This is the reason which I elected to give the game 4 stars. For me, I’ve been enjoying the game and will likely continue to play for quite some time so, if this is the type of game you enjoy, I would say it is worth getting. Play and enjoy! That is, after all, the point of games. May you all enjoy life and live with great joy and happiness!