Light of Altair
Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in…
Light of Altair is an indie developed by SaintXi, released 4 May 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Light of Altair is
Light of Altair is an indie game developed by SaintXi and released in 2009. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in space, 8 factions from different parts of the world are all following their own agendas in the solar system; diplomacy and orbital-combat are essential to learn.
How it plays
Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Light of Altair holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Light of Altair launched on 4 May 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!! and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!!, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona.
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