Unlike the Civilization series, Starkey said Pandora effectively forced players to play in a single way to win the game. In his review for GameSpot, Daniel Starkey wrote that the game 'is laden with awful design choices and a confusing mishmash of old and new mechanics'. Pandora: First Contact received mixed reviews on Metacritic. Īn expansion pack, Eclipse of Nashira, was announced on Jand released on September 19, 2014. Slitherine Software released the game on 15 November 2013. The game was written by game journalist Dan Griliopoulos, who was inspired by Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Although the technology tree is partially randomised, there are still prerequisites that must be researched. The human factions are split among ideological boundaries and receive different bonuses. The native lifeforms are not initially hostile, but as the human colonists destroy their habitats by polluting the world, the lifeforms grow increasingly restless. It is inspired by Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and is about ideologically opposed factions from Earth who colonize a hostile planet.Īfter polluting Earth, colonists settle a new planet. Pandora: First Contact is a 2013 4X game developed by German company Proxy Studios and published by Slitherine Software.

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