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Slipways

Slipways

Operating System

Windows, Mac OS

Release Date

3 Jun 2021

Developer

Beetlewing

Current Price

£13.99
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Slipways takes the space grand strategy genre and condenses the best parts of it down by throwing away all the micromanagement and the steep learning curve. The result is a unique blend of the strategy and puzzle genres in which you can finish a run quickly, but still have a deep experience full of tough decisions.

MAKE TRADE, NOT WAR
Colonize planets, carefully pick industries and hook everything up so that your planets support each other. Line everything up just right and watch your colonies evolve and grow, giving you even more options for profitable trade. Make long-term plans and bask in your own glory when that one last connection makes six planets upgrade at the same time and gives you the income you desperately need.

There is no military aspect to pull your focus away from the economy. The game is more relaxed than your typical grand strategy. It's all about exploring space and its endless opportunities, shaping it to your whim and developing it to its full potential. No need for war with so much empty universe to claim.

FASTER THAN LIGHT
Forget about tedious micromanagement and waiting for ships to be built. In Slipways, every action you take has immediate consequences, and every choice you make is of paramount importance. Your planets govern themselves while you focus on making the right decisions to get them what they need. You'll waste none of your precious time on busywork. A single run takes 40-60 minutes and they are all filled with the good stuff.

TECH IT UP A NOTCH
There are no boring technologies here. Instead of making a single building 20% more efficient, technologies in Slipways let you move planets at will, harness stars for energy or colonize planets with sentient machines instead of people. The selection varies each run, so you'll have to plan carefully and adapt to the situation at hand. The path you choose will profoundly change your experience and the way you look at the game's planets and resources.

PLAY IT YOUR WAY
The standard gameplay mode gives you 25 years to build the best empire you can, but there are others. The endless mode lets you play for as long as you can hold on to power, the sandbox mode allows you to experiment freely, while the ranked run is a chance to measure your skills against others around the world on pre-seeded maps.

The game will also feature a campaign mode, with each scenario introducing a new twist and refreshing the gameplay: supernovae that have to be tamed or avoided, sectors with completely new resources to be mined, a dense nebula impeding your progress. On launch day, there will only be a few scenarios to explore, but their number will increase over time as free updates are released. The new mechanics introduced in the campaign will also feature in other modes, becoming new options for even more varied runs.

Languages

English (text), French (text), German (text), Polish (text), Spanish - Spain (text), Simplified Chinese (text)

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS

Minimum:OS *: Windows 7 or higher
Memory (RAM): 4 GB RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce 7xx series or equivalent with 1 GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space

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According to COST.games Slipways can be purchased from 3 different shops: Steam, Epic, GOG.
At the moment the most attractive price is at Steam (£13.99).
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Slipways review

COST.games gives Slipways a score of 87.
15 users of Metacritic gave Slipways an average score of 8.5.
On Steam, 93% of the 1,903 players gave a positive rating.
The GOG shop has 26 player reviews with an average score of 4.2.