DesolationStone
Educated
Steam
I bought this game a few years ago thanks to a Fanatical's bundle full of Russian and East European games for just $1 (literally the price of a coffee + brioche). For some reason, this one (two, because Microids decided to make the expansion a stand alone title) game became my obsession a few months ago when I discovered that it was being developed by Digital Reality, the same Hungarian studio behind Imperium Galactica II, probably the most ambitious 4X game ever made. The game is very, very strange and really unfinished, as if they made 60% of it and then rushed for the deadline, skipping UI, story and some of the gameplay.
The reason why this game is still surprising and interesting today is because of the space battles with tons of special effects, which the developer used as inspiration for Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. After more than 20 years, it's probably one of the few games I've played where a ship is not destroyed, but torn apart into pieces floating in the void of space.
For the rest, as I said before, a lot of strange ideas half implemented: espionage, trade and colony management are at a minimal level with a terrible and approximate interface.
The plot and setting are also very strange. Fun fact: one of the main characters, and the only one of Italian origin, is called "Laura Meloni". "Meloni" is the surname of the first Italian president, elected less than a year ago, and both characters have similar backgrounds. Despite being a small commercial success (they even made an expansion) I found little information on the internet and no topic here if not some help request for bugs and other technical issues, so I decided to create one here.
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