Endless Space strategy game released for Mac

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If you’re a fan of the “4X” genre of computer strategy game, rejoice. Amplitude has released a Macintosh version of its recently-introduced “Endless Space,” now available for download through Steam for $29.99.

In Endless Space, you assume leadership of one of eight spacefaring civilizations, using your skills and your civilization’s abilities to gain control. You can try to manage efforts using diplomacy and trade, find resources to exploit, discover artifacts, develop technology and deploy massive armadas to crush your enemies if you choose.

The game features hundreds of star systems to explore, hire heroes to lead your fleets or become system governors, customize ship configurations, and much more in turn-based gameplay that you can play by yourself or with up to seven other players.

Endless Space echoes the gameplay of games like Masters of Orion, Civilization V and others, in which you must build a mighty empire among the stars by exploring, expanding, exploiting and exterminating your opponents (hence, the “4X” designation).



  • http://twitter.com/Kosmatos Odi Kosmatos

    You lost me at Steam. I installed that thing on my PC at work and it incessantly nagged me for passwords and updates. Why do I have to install that on my Mac and have yet another app running and updating just so I can play this game? How is that good for me, the customer?

    Our policy at home is to only buy games from the Mac App Store, unless there’s a very good reason not to. But to have to deal with Steam (which itself isn’t on the Mac App Store, right?) is not something I’m going to do. I want things to get simpler, not more complicated, when it comes to computers in our household.

    • rwitt

      Steam for Mac is a miserable experience. I regret ever installing it.

  • http://www.aichon.com Brad

    Since MOO2 is my favorite game of all time, I’ll point out that it’s “Master of Orion”, not “Masters of Orion”. Coincidentally enough, I was up until 4am last night playing MOO2 after I finally got my GOG copy of it running in 10.8 (which, in retrospect, was a bad idea, since I still had to be at work developing software at the usual time).