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SaintXi / Jun 4, 2009 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in space, 8 factions from different parts of the world are all following their own agendas in the solar system; diplomacy and...
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| CPU | Not set | Pentium® 4 1.5GHz or Athlon™ XP 1500+ processor Can't tell |
| GPU | Not set | 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible Hardware Accelerated video card and latest drivers Can't tell |
| RAM | Not set | 256MB RAM Can't tell |
Mostly Positive
74% positive, 31 reviews
79 / 100 For the lack of a better phrase, I would call this the "poor man's Sins of a Solar Empire", that has more of a focus on planet building than combat. LoA is far from a bad game, but does suffer from a basic UI and occasional glitchy play. The depth in strategy is not huge but offers enough to give you some ongoing challenges to master. Graphically it is fairly low def, but the planets and rotating your view...
31 found this helpful, 2014-02-23
I'm giving this a "not recommend", but that's only because I cannot actually give a clear recommendation to get it. I'm also not giving one against getting it - my actual feelings on this game are mixed. It's an excellent space gardening simulator. There's something a bit hypnotic and relaxing about just planting those colonies, tending to them and growing them. That is the one definitely good aspect of it. The...
28 found this helpful, 2014-02-13
For people like me who totally suck at RTS and get destroyed by even the most harmless enemies, this little game here is a real relief :) Colonizing planets is enjoyable and gladly the micromanagement is easy enough to do for even such economic untalented players like me. And the small planets! I love that, always adored it when you can see the curvature of the planet. Is it worth the 13€ they ask on Steam for it...
16 found this helpful, 2014-02-20
This game is a fun joy, its not a 4x game like you might think,its more like a standard styled rts with a planet based meta map.It has a nice amount of expansion,colony building,ship building,ship configuration with hardly any micromanagement at all. There is no skirmish mode,you play out a campaign that gets progressively harder,though I have found some later missions to be easier for me than the later ones.This...
7 found this helpful, 2014-05-03
