x3 albion prelude station building guide

This game is mostly menus with not alot more going for it. Holy crap this game has some of the most unintuitive menus I've ever seen. But this element is not going to find many other experiences like this. Yet I must reiterate, the game is only going to appeal to a certain element.

There’s really nothing quite like it, at least not as a single-player game. And that’s with you using the built-in functionality to speed the game up 10x.īut damn it, the game somehow manages to be compelling in spite of all that. It is a game where progress is not measured in minutes. And you will spend a lot of time waiting for things to happen. You will just be completely baffled by how a game that revolves around controlling potentially hundreds or even thousands of ships and stations somehow makes it as difficult and tedious as possible. You will find yourself utterly perplexed by how a game that is spent 90% of the time in menus can have such obtuse menus. I’ve put almost 60 hours into the game and haven’t even touched the combat a single time with all my focus being on trading and building industries in space. You can be a space mogul that builds an economic empire. You could be a pirate and go around attacking ships and stations. You could operate as space police going around scanning cargo bays for illicit goods. There are a variety of ways to play the game. Depending on how you play it, you might as well be a glorified space accountant constantly looking at spreadsheets and allocating resources to this and that.

It is a very dry and exceedingly slow experience. It has a terrible interface that constantly fights you every step of the way. It's not beautiful, although nor is it ugly. X3: Albion Prelude is a game that will appeal to a very specific type of person.

X3 albion prelude station building guide