{"id":12976,"date":"2016-01-26T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2016-03-10T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T09:08:10","slug":"stellar-indie-venture-lord-of-rigel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/stellar-indie-venture-lord-of-rigel\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar Indie Venture: Lord of Rigel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The quest for a worthy\u00a0successor to Master of Orion continues, and Lord of Rigel<\/a>, from the indie devs of Rhombus Studios, is one of the latest contenders. Their inspiration is clearly Master of Orion 2, judging from the game’s screenshots and their frequent updates on this site’s forums<\/a>. Their strategy seems to have been to pick up from Master of Orion 2 and stick very close to its formula, while enhancing it to today’s standards and\u00a0fixing some of its weaknesses. But, it’s not only about Master of Orion 2, apparently. Here’s how the devs describe their game.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been working on a turn based space strategy game in the vein of Stardrive, Endless Space, Galactic Civilizations and Master of Orion called Lord of Rigel. Basically we’re taking everything we like, tossing out what we disliked, and really focusing on the end game which is always a bit of a weakness in these sorts of games. Having a Babylon 5 style cold war with two elder species is our answer, basically trying to do what Master of Orion 3 was aiming for with the New Orions and Galactic Council. The big thing separating us from the flock comes down to fleshing out the universe and sticking with turn based tactical (since so many current games have real time or non-interactive cinematic tactical).” –Rhombus Studios<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The project seems to have started in early 2014. In September 2015 they released a demo<\/a> for their turn-based tactical combat system and soon after they launched a Kickstarter<\/a> campaign, that didn’t succeed.<\/p>\n

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But, it wasn’t the end for the Rhombus team and their venture, and in the latest status update<\/a> they state to have been doing good progress and hope to release still in 2016 (as a matter of fact, Lord of Rigel almost made it to our 2016’s “can’t miss list”<\/a> but we ended up not including it because we tried to be a bit more conservative with the release schedule expectations this time).<\/p>\n

Key game features include:<\/p>\n

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