I was looking for a good turn based space game for a long time ever since Master of Orion II back in the DOS days. This is honestly the closest thing I could find to the aforementioned game. Good race/trait selection, galaxy sizes provides for 4 hour - multiple days gameplay. Diverse research tree and lots of good random events keep you going from start to finish. Battles are automatic sort of...you select cards that modify your battle strategies and watch the results in real time. I like it.

I was looking for a good turn based space game for a long time ever since Master of Orion II back in the DOS days. This is honestly the closest thing I could find to the aforementioned game. Good race/trait selection, galaxy sizes provides for 4 hour - multiple days gameplay. Diverse research tree and lots of good random events keep you going from start to finish. Battles are automatic sort of...you select cards that modify your battle strategies and watch the results in real time. I like it.