Offworld Trading Company, I like you. Admire you, even. But it seems that no amount of liking and admiration is ever going to get the two of us completely comfy. I understand that's your intention. You released the Jupiter's Forge downloadable content...
Developer: Mohawk Games/Stardock Entertainment Platform: PC ( Steam , $39.99) Review code provided by the publisher.Landing on an alien planet is going to be difficult for absolutely anyone – save for perhaps the Mars Rover. Gathering food and water...
It's the end of my first game of Offworld Trading Company , I've just been handed a cheque for $848,000 – and it's the worst thing that's happened to me all night. In some games, failure comes in the form of bankruptcy – but in here, it comes as a...
In a sense, that's the raw truth behind almost any game, and the level of window dressing applied to it is often a key factor in the mechanisms by which that is achieved. Here, everything is on show, you're fully behind the curtain. As such, the clearest appeal is to Directors, and the peaks of its appeal are likely limited to relatively few, but there are gems at its core well worth extracting.
Offworld Trading Company combines economic strategy with innovation and polish, resulting in a game which feels exciting, deep and fun all at once. Not an easy combination to pull off - the developers should be proud, and gamers should be...
Relatively simple in concept but complex in the possible manipulation of the market, Offworld Trading Company manages to make a type of gameplay that's traditionally slow into something fast and exciting. It's a tad too easy to trip yourself up before...
I have never played a game like Offworld Trading Company. If you go to buy it from a store, it'll be listed as a strategy game. If you read up on it, you'll know that it was designed by Civilization IV's Soren Johnson. If you look at a screenshot,...
Soren Johnson es un nombre bastante conocido entre los fanáticos del género estratégico. El hombre fue el Lead Designer para Sid Meier's Civilization IV, un juego que aún es considerado por muchos como el mejor dentro de la franquicia. Ahora, tras años...
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