Matrix Games

Overview ( More Info )

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

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Features

Truly Epic-Scale Galaxies: play in galaxies with up to 1400 star systems and 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Vast nebula clouds spiral out from the galactic core, shaping the distribution of star clusters in the galaxy
Private Enterprise: the private citizens of your empire automatically take care of mundane tasks like mining resources, transporting cargo, migration between colonies, tourism and much more. This frees you from micro-management and instead allows you to focus on a macro-scale
Intelligent Automation: automate the various tasks in your empire, so that you can focus on the areas that you enjoy most. Or have your advisors make suggestions in different areas like colonization, defence or diplomacy – helping you learn the best tactics and strategies
Explore: explore the vast galaxy, discovering valuable resources, potential colonies for your empire and making contact with other empires. Uncover secrets that lift the veil on the galaxy’s mysterious past...
Colonize: send out colony ships to found new worlds for your empire. Develop your new colonies by keeping them well-supplied with a steady stream of valuable resources
Defend: patrol the outlying areas of your empire to protect from raiding pirates or dangerous space monsters. Construct defensive bases at your colonies. Build up your fleets to defend against enemy empires. Recruit troops to invade enemy colonies and conquer the galaxy!
Diplomacy: interact with other empires, discussing treaties, making trade offers or just giving them a piece of your mind. Talk to pirate factions, tapping into their underground information, or paying them to do your dirty work for you...
Espionage: covertly seek out information about other empires, or even disrupt their progress with acts of sabotage
Research: develop new technologies for use in building your own unique ships and star bases
Build: design and build the ships and star bases in your empire. Construct mighty military ships at your space ports, or build mining stations, research installations or secret monitoring facilities at remote locations throughout the galaxy
Built-in Game Editor: fine-tune your own galaxy, adding or removing star systems, planets, asteroid fields, ships, star bases, space monsters or anything else. Modify the attributes of any empire in your game
Extensive Help: exhaustive, built-in, context-sensitive help is always only a single key-press away. Press F1 at any time for a detailed explanation of the current game screen, your currently selected item, etc
Tutorials: in-game tutorials familiarize you with all of the game elements and tools
Built-in Customization: modify all ship art, alien races, and much more. Switch between different customization sets with a couple of mouse clicks from the main game menu

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Review on Gamers Hall
93% - [Translated from German] Enemy AI always has nice surprises... a gigantic play area... finally, a true space empire game!

Review on Gamer.no
8/10 - [Translated from Norwegian] This is a game that just gets better and better, and it has at least secured a permanent place on my hard drive for a long time to come.

Review on Absolute Games
77/100 - [Translated from Russian] Code Force is a small company, but it succeeded where more experienced studios failed – it created a worthy rival for Galactic Civilizations 2. Distant Worlds has its share of technical and ideological kinks to iron out, but this is definitely a step forward for the 4X genre.

Review on Out of Eight
8/8 - Gigantic living galaxies.. A hallmark 4X strategy title... Grand strategy and classic 4X mechanics combine in a vibrant world...

Product Data

Complexity: Intermediate
Field of Play: Strategic
Historical Period: Distant Future
Theater: Outer Space
Unit Scale: Planets / Ships
Turn Play: No, pausable real time
Players: Single Player, 20 playable races
AI: Yes, Up to 20 opponents (plus dozens of pirate factions, too)
TCP/IP: No
PBEM: No
Game Editor: Yes, scenario creator / ships, art, races fully moddable
Display Resolution: Minimum 1024 x 768, No Maximum

System Requirements

MINIMUM
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7
CPU: Pentium 4 @1.5 GHz
RAM: 1Gb RAM
Video/Graphics: minimum 1024 x 768 resolution, 32 bit
Sound: DirectX 9 compatible
Hard disk space: approx 500Mb
CD-Rom: not required, except if installing from CD
DirectX version: 9.0c or later
Peripheral hardware: Mouse
Anything else that is needed: Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 or later (will be included with installer)
RECOMMENDED
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7
CPU: Dual Core CPU @2.0 GHz
RAM: 2Gb RAM
Video/Graphics: minimum 1024 x 768 resolution, 32 bit
Sound: DirectX 9 compatible
Hard disk space: approx 500Mb
CD-Rom: not required, except if installing from CD
DirectX version: 9.0c or later
Peripheral hardware: Mouse with scroll wheel
Anything else that is needed: Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 or later (will be included with installer)