What is Star Ruler?

[Civvi]

I saw this on Steam the other day and it got me interested in to thinking what is Star Ruler and how do you play it? Is the game fun and has anyone here played it? I was wanting to check this game out and see if I could download it but I want to know more info about the game.

 

[GoodGame]

I demo'd it and found it to be pretty horrible and over-priced. It's an indie game. I'd suggest downloading the demo yourself.

 

[Maniacal]

Rock Paper Shotgun just did a Wot I Think on Star Ruler. Seems like a fairly interesting if complex game. If I wasn't preoccupied with Sword of the Stars I'd give the demo a whirl.

 

[MajKira]

trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laf44lnrPww
its like a space game, that is very zoomable, many levels of zooming in there but is not mellowed and without the music in the trailer

 

[cardgame]

From the RPS article's comments:

My personal favourite is locking down a sector of space and securing central industry, economic and research systems dedicated to preparing what I like to call a “Star Killer” force. Then, after years of silence my empire unleashes a wave of colony ships that snatch up worlds, extracting them back to my locked down systems using PLANETARY THRUSTERS. Yes you read that correctly. I colonise a planet, attach THRUSTERS TO THEM and them fly then back to my secure systems. After I am happy with my collection of planets I develop them into industry power houses and begin building my Starkiller force of size 10k spacial distortion goliaths that… for all intent and purposes rip holes in reality itself. Incidentally these weapons represent the most effective ways of setting stars to nova. I make sure I include a warp drive to the ships and then leisurely spend my time warping into every system in the galaxy, blowing the star and leaving if I can. It’s an attrition based strategy that hasn’t proved the most effective, but it is hilariously entertaining .

Also tinkering around with custom ship designs never gets old… I once designed an artillery station that had such an enormous range that I could almost pluck enemy ships out of existence from anywhere in the galaxy. I could even build a whole army of them, pause the game, slowly but surely tell each artillery station to target every single enemy planet I have on my radar and then unpause… essentially wiping out an enemy empire’s entire industry and economy as soon as war were declared.

That sounds like a helluva lot of fun.

There were also some comments about it being hard to find meaning or significance in the game though, all hard numbers and no personality.