Stuck at home looking for some Free 4x space strategy game?
Hi and welcome back to another rare post from your favorite open-source games blog :) Oh and yes I am also in quarantine due to Covid-19... stay save and stay at home! So these days I had *some* time to check out recent developments in the probably most "just another turn" time wasting genre: 4x space strategy games . Hot off the press is a first beta release of faithful modernization of the grand-daddy of this genre ( Masters of Orion ) called Remnants of the Precursors : ( Click here to watch the above video on Invidio.us instead ) Those sweet graphics come in at a hefty 1GB download and you will need Java to run it. The full GPL3 licensed source-code is available, but sadly the art assets are all under various non-libre Creative Commons licenses. The author is also asking for feedback on the beta via Reddit . But did I say "faithful"? Yes, this is game-play wise a pretty much exact copy on the 1993 classic. Not your cup of tea? Then maybe it is time to revisit ...