The Battle of Polytopia 2016

Is it still worth playing?

Midjiwan's 2016 turn based 4X strategy game, first released for iOS, in which you lead a tribe to build an empire and defeat rival tribes on a procedurally generated map of square tiles. Each tribe has a unique starting ability but shares the same technology tree. You move units and spend stars, a resource generated by cities, to unlock technologies, create military units or gather materials to upgrade cities, and each upgrade lets you choose one of two benefits. Perfection mode gives you 30 turns to earn the highest score through exploration, resource collection and special challenges, while Domination mode asks you to defeat all other tribes, rated on how few turns it takes. A short turn limit and a single resource to spend suit a short session today, since each game is a quick set of choices about what to unlock first.