Galactic Reign -- Amazing Space Fleet Battles, wp8/win8

Bamelin

after seeing the post about it on the front page of pa yesterday :

I’m still putting a few turns a day into Galactic Reign which is a Windows 8 and windows phone 8 game. It’s a great asynchronous strategy game set in outer space that has you building and customizing massive fleets of spaceships. The super cool part is that when one of your fleets comes into contact with an enemy fleet the game ships off the data to the cloud where thinking machine supercomputers render a kickass movie of the battle and then send it back down to your device to watch. Because of this you get fights on a scale that you just don’t normally see, especially on a mobile game. I’m talking thousands of ships from tiny fighters to massive capital ships.

Immediately downloaded and gave the game a try. Game is 4.99 for access to all 3 races but you can play the full game as one race for free. The big draw (for me) is the battles. When you get Battleships involved it can get pretty crazy. It's pretty fun. Since the game is turn based you can turn on push notifications and play it similar to old PBEM games. The 4.99 price includes both Windows 8 and WP8 versions so you can play on your PC and phone.


This video explains it pretty well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-9kTnYx-5g


Some more battles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvS09ijYKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR11EsfH2_M&list=UUHiAoCTxjQRPCVcLsCSpb2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxJY4Y7nebg


I spent the last couple hours playing on my Nokia 920 and it plays really sweet ... you can see it's optimized for phones/tablets. Haven't tried on Windows 8 yet.

Anyone else playing this? I'd never heard of it, and it's a crapload of fun. Love watching the space battles unfold.

My Xbox nick is bamelin, add me if you are playing.