Neptune's Pride (free to play, online strategy crack)
Over the last week I've been playing (one long game of) Neptune's Pride. It's a free-to-play real-time space strategy game by Iron Helmet. The basic concept is this:
Neptune’s Pride is a browser-based multiplayer strategy game that falls somewhere between Galactic Civilizations and Risk. Eight empires fight to be first to conquer half of the galaxy’s ~180 stars. While the game ostensibly progresses in real-time, moving a fleet from one planet to another takes about 16 hours (before speed upgrades) and your economy only produces funds once a day. Thus players only need to check the game a few times a day, a style sometimes referred to as “sporadic play”.
(Taken from The Quixotic Engineer blog)
It's incredibly addicting, and the added depth comes from making alliances with other players or developing rivalries and set strategies. Perhaps the best part is that you only have to commit a few minutes to it a day, checking in on things and moving your pieces (which, again, take a while to actually move)
Absolutely worth giving a shot if you're looking to fill a random 15 minutes in the day
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