You are the Emperor – you are a character in a game that has hundreds that you will interact with.You can do anything, but you can’t do everything Top – level management – you have Action Points that are finite and vary from turn to turn.Behold, reassuring USPs from the horse’s mouth. Their individual power grows with each assignment, as do their aspirations and the flow-on effects of gaining favour in the imperial court.īut don’t take my word for it. In any number of roles, the house heads can be cajoled into funding and carrying out these imperial decrees. Where in the past pretenders to the galactic throne would shuffle workers or queue up constructions, Alliance of the Sacred Suns emphasises projects and coordinators. These houses are the sprockets of empire, their patriarchs and matriarchs sporting their own traits, specialties and diplomatic considerations. The nod to Holistic Suns’ Fading Suns is no mere phrase, with Alliance drawing on its mix of medieval conniving and Victorian imperialism to paint a picture of an empire operating as a collective of independent organisms, rather than an amoebic monolith. Tilting at simulating the power politics and space-cum-soap opera of a great galactic empire, Alliance of the Sacred Suns is served with jostling houses and interstellar intrigue. Developer KatHawk Games hopes to do justice to the concept of ruling a kingdom whose girth is measured in light years. Īlliance of the Sacred Suns is looking to crib the best parts of Crusader Kings and long-foundered feudal majesty of Emperor of the Fading Suns massaging them into a game where being Palpatine means leaving the grunt work to the grunts. The outliers are few, but one new tantalising project is tilting at trading the star lane traipse for something different. As such, you wouldn’t be alone in feeling a wee twig of ennui towards the galactic overlord genre. The comfortable fit of a SimTex stonewash is time-tested, and its reliable density drags all and sundry towards the event horizon. We’ve been pulling on the same pair of jeans for twenty five-odd years when it comes to space empire builders.

Alliance of the sacred suns 2018