
Heroes: Gamers can hire unique heroes to govern their worlds or to command their mighty fleets in battle.Ship Design: Build ships in the Custom Ship Design Mode and take them into real-time battles featuring stunning visuals and sound effects.Nine Alien Races: Experience a multitude of pirate factions, handle interspecies relations, conduct diplomacy and espionage, and make alien friends or enemies.Turn-based, Real-time: Players build a space empire in a turn-based environment, but experience battles in real-time.Other StarDrive 2 gameplay features include: “There is so much more here that 4X gamers will enjoy: The ship design offers a better, faster interface, the ground battles add diversity, new alien races add complexity, and the Unity Engine shines in the background all the while.” “Creating StarDrive 2 on the Unity engine has been a rich, rewarding experience, and now that it’s complete, I am totally excited for fans of the franchise and 4X genre to dive in,” said Daniel DiCicco, Zero Sum Games. Players will be able to design and deploy custom spaceships, as well as hire heroes to take on and conquer new alien civilizations while expanding their empire.

StarDrive 2, the follow up to the popular space-strategy game StarDrive, released on Steam today allowing players to build a galactic empire through real-time space or all new ground combat.Īn evolution of the initial release, StarDrive 2 now incorporates turn-based real time 4X – eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate – strategy.
