Reach for the Stars
Reach for the Stars is a turn-based strategy game of epic galactic exploration, colonization, and conquest. The original RFTS released in the mid-1980s was wildly popular in its day, and maintains a loyal…
Reach for the Stars is a strategy developed by Strategic Studies Group, released 1 January 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Reach for the Stars is
Reach for the Stars is a strategy game developed by Strategic Studies Group and released in 2000. It was published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Reach for the Stars is a turn-based strategy game of epic galactic exploration, colonization, and conquest. The original RFTS released in the mid-1980s was wildly popular in its day, and maintains a loyal following. Reach for the Stars is considered to be one of the original 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) games.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate). It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Reach for the Stars launched on 1 January 2000, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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