Lost Empire Immortals - Windows

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although not a key need for a 4X game, are still outdated compared to other recent 4X games that have been released. There doesn't seem to be very much of a cohesive storyline, I've put quite a few hours in and had relatively little if any plot involvement in the story game.

The galaxy does have a very large scope, with up to 5000 systems, but colonization is also done at a system level, and not by an individual planet level as many other 4X space games, although the up to 28 minor races (which have larger and better roles than others I've played) and 10 major races at once is on the high end.

Planetary construction is extremely simplistic, no choosing what buildings to create, you just choose one of 8 "types" for that system to be, which vary the maximum number of 5 different building types, construction is done automatically given enough resources.

Ship Building is on par with Space Empires IV, there are a number of classes of ship of roughly fixed size which have a number of slots, pretty standard stuff here.

One good new feature is "Leaders" which can develop their skills in 5 areas and then take on one of 10 roles (or spend a turn increasing their skills), based on their role and skill levels they provide empire wide bonuses. This is something that I wish would have been expanded on more.

I haven't made it into much combat, but there is a 3d-rendering engine to show replays of battles that shows potential, but even if this were a great feature I wouldn't think it enough to overcome many of the other shortcomings.

Overall I've played a lot of 4X space building games, Lost Empire: Immortals doesn't bring anything groundbreaking to the table, most features are on par or below par compared to other games released in the last few years. If you're a big fan of 4X, could be an enjoyable game, I would wait awhile for some of the more major bugs to be worked out, but based on my experiences so far, I would consider games like Space Empires IV (4) Gold, Galactic Civilizations II Gold and even back to Imperium Galactica 2: Alliances as better games.