Pax Nova
Humanity has failed itself through pollution and war. After a century of political tension and countless armed conflicts, Earth is now on the verge of being uninhabitable. A communication from deep space gives us the chance to leave our dying planet and start over, by migrating to Eos, marking the beginning of the era of ‘Pax Nova’. But will it be enough to save humanity?
In this sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game, you may choose one of several factions divided between three races, and establish yourself in Eos. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as terrible dangers. Build great cities and expand your influence through efficient diplomacy, or prepare for battle on land and in space when diplomacy fails or for when you’re just a warmonger.
Explore your world and beyond…
Planets are much more than just a collection of stats. Your civilization will soon want to know what’s outside your atmosphere and will look forward to discovering, colonizing or even invading new worlds. Each planet is procedurally generated with different biomes and various challenges, and is filled with numerous secrets, creatures, characters, factions and much more.
…including space itself
Space itself hides numerous secrets but many dangers as well. Pirates, space creatures and other beings will try to hinder or help your progression throughout Eos.
An epic space opera
Three different races, all invited there, provide a choice from a total of 15 factions. Each faction has their own play-style and challenges. Unveil the past of Eos and define its future! How you do it however is entirely up to you.
Dynamic diplomacy systems and political landscape
New diplomacy options can be unlocked depending on your traits, technology, specific events and more.
And much more
- Discover Eos’s secrets and solve quests, build space bases and outposts
- Unique victory conditions for each player
- Unit and ship customization
- Randomly generated tech tree (Coming soon during EA)
Pax Nova Review
This has amazing potential, I have honestly never been more excited about a game. It takes a lot of the best features from a number of 4x games and combines them into one game with seemingly everything, somehow. Currently it needs a lot of polish though, it’s very much an EA game, has a number of UI issues, bugs, broken mechanics, and balance issues, but it seems like most of the core content is already there from what I have seen so it’s just a matter of fixing things from this point on. (Edit: Actually another look at the tech tree revealed that the game is currently fairly light on content, era 2 and 3 are pretty small, and era 4 is empty. It probably needs about double the current number of techs, but most of what’s missing is just general advancements/progression stuff.)
The “core” game is essentially Beyond Earth, except after a point you can build ships and go into space to colonize more planets. You start on a random planet of one of several biomes, have some semi-hostile alien wildlife to deal with, some ruins to explore, and it has a “path” system very similar to the Beyond Earth affinity system allowing you to shift your empire toward specific values and unlock related bonuses (IE a nature type path that has an unlock that makes wildlife less hostile).
City building works more like the Warlock games where you have a main city center and then districts you build around it to collect resources or add functionality, there are few upgrades built into the city center though so not everything is a district. Different districts get bonuses from different terrain features, rivers for farming districts, mountains for industry districts, sea tiles for science districts, and there are upgrades to the districts you can unlock and build, so positioning of districts and cities is pretty important in determining the role of that city.
I’m giving it a thumbs up for now, I think as long as they don’t abandon it instantly it’s going to become something special. It’s on sale now 10% off and after EA the price will increase, so I want to say buy it now if you are interested and then maybe wait a few days or weeks for the biggest issues to be fixed before getting into it, but just know that there are currently some fairly big issues and if you really want to be safe, wait a while before buying.
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