Publisher Iceberg Interactive announced today the official Steam launch date of April 26, 2013 for its hotly-anticipated 4X space-strategy game StarDrive for Windows PC.
The best-selling StarDrive Beta is currently available through Steam at a 17% discount at $24.99. The full retail version will be released on April 26 with a launch-week discount of 10%.
StarDrive is a space-themed 4X strategy game with deep ship design, colonization, diplomacy, research, and beautiful 3D graphics designed by new developer Zero Sum Games, which ran a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011.
Features Include:
- ● Real-time gameplay with a seamless zoom from a grand strategic view to a close-up action view
- ● Choose from eight beautifully rendered alien races or design your own; interact, negotiate, and forge allegiances on your way to victory
- ● Expand your empire and colonize all kinds of planets, terraform and populate them, and build them into specialized centers of trade or industry
- ● Research and unlock an array of technologies to improve your military and industrial capabilities
- ● Control your ships with classic real-time strategy commands or jump into the fray by taking direct ‘arcade’ control of any ship in your empire
- ● Create your unique ship designs with the modular ship design system and determine your own fate in battle
- ● Create custom fleet formations and set rules of engagement in the easy-to-use fleet editor
- ● Steal technologies, incite rebellions, or rob your enemies blind with a rich agent-based espionage system
- ● Deploy ground troops from orbit to defeat the enemies’ last planetary defenses in ground combat
- ● Explore the rich universe that comes alive with random events, remnant elements, hidden treasures, deep space terrors and late-game threats
Official Website: http://www.stardrivegame.com
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/220660
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