Endless Space 2 2017

Is it still worth playing?

Amplitude Studios' turn based 4X strategy game, released in May 2017 after early access, the sequel to Endless Space. It is set tens of thousands of years after the fall of the Endless, an advanced civilization, in a galaxy that thrives again. You take one of 12 major factions, each with asymmetrical gameplay, a storyline, homeworld, ships, heroes and technologies, or build a custom one, and you expand a fledgling empire by conquering systems. Each system holds up to five planets with their own environments, climates and stats, and sometimes anomalies an explorer ship can investigate. An environment decides whether a planet can be colonized, and research unlocks more of them. With every faction playing by its own rules, each new campaign is still a different game.