In order to win, you will need to make tough choices on what resources to acquire, what goods to build and sell, how to interact with the planet's thriving underworld, and what stocks to acquire and when. The real-time player driven market is your sword and your shield here. Strategy is key, and tenuous alliances between rivals are easily broken when the opportunity arises.Control the Market before your Competition Controls YouIn Offworld Trading Company, market forces are your weapons, not guns or bombs. Multiple types of CEOs, each with unique traits and abilities, deliver many hours of discovery into their motivations and how they intend to dominate the future of Mars.Experience New Adventure in MultiplayerTurn your friends into frenemies! With a robust and exciting multiplayer mode that can support up to eight players, no two games of Offworld Trading Company are the same! The market fluctuates depending on which of the four starting corporations you and your opponents choose and what resources you accumulate. Rekindle humanity’s adventurous spirit by leaving Earth behind and make a new name for yourself as a titan of industry on the red planet.Discover the Origin of the Major Martian BusinessesDetermine the fate of the Martian colonization effort in the dynamic single-player campaign mode. The competition to dominate the market is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV lead Designer, Soren Johnson.Venture to Mars to Earn Your FortuneWith space travel becoming a reality and the easy-to-reach resources on Earth dwindling, hopeful people seeking their fortune are rushing to the next great frontier: Mars.
Now, Earth's greatest corporate titans have been invited to build companies to support it. It's quite an original innovative game concept. Game does well what it sets to accomplish. Graphics are OK, game runs smoothly, didn't encounter ANY bugs, or disbalances.
Replay-ability is not endless, it's basically an indie title, so you don't get that much of content, but what you get is really cleverly designed (even campaigns are randomly generated matches that last 7 turns (7 different consecutive maps) and you can get and keep some advantages from previous missions so you develop and specialize your company for a campaign.
But i can't stress it enough AI is really really good, and it's an accomplishment in itself in today gaming industry, well done devs ! The core mechanics of the game are quite trivial (acquire cheap, sell high) but nevertheless the mix works, and it's even little bit addictive. It has truly wonderful AI, the game design of prices markets of course makes it easier for AI to make efficient decisions. I lost my first 10 games to AI on normal difficulty. Learning the game is simple, mastering very difficult. Players and AI's compete for resources, patents and markets. It has symmetrical (everyone starts at the same time, with same resources) matches which last for an hour or two. It's a tycoonish RTS, you can pause anytime, so don't worry about your lack actions per minute micro¯o skills, you don't need those.
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