Imperium Galactica 1997

Is it still worth playing?

You rise from a young lieutenant named Dante to Grand Admiral, building colonies and commanding fleets across the galaxy, in this 1997 space strategy game for DOS. It combines the real time battles and resource management of a real time strategy game with the research tree and colony building of turn based space empire games. You start with a small destroyer, three fighters and three colonies in a sector you cannot leave. As you are promoted, planet management, space battles, ground battles, research, ship production and diplomacy are introduced one by one, until Grand Admiral unlocks everything. The galaxy keeps taking shape outside your view, and seven alien races and two renegade human empires can be dealt with through diplomacy. Ranks that unlock new functions one by one still introduce a strategy game with a large set of units gently.