An interesting and unique take on running a space corporation.
Offworld Trading Company reminds me of Civilization a bit, which makes sense as one of the lead designers of Civilization IV worked on this title and it shows. You play a space corporation, putting down your base, building different outposts, across the map, and trying to maximize your profits so you can buy out your opponents and that’s it. The game features limitations in the number of buildings players can create, which will challenge players to maximize what they use to gather resources and process them. Those claims add a lot of strategy to the game.
However, I’m not sure how this game is for longevity. The end of a game involves buying out the majority ownership of all the other companies, which appears to be the only victory condition. So you need to rake in a ton of profit, there’s only a handful of ways to do this. The end game feels interesting, but also like something would become monotonous because it’s mostly a waiting game to maximize profits. The idea though is fresh, and each of the corporations has unique benefits.
Pick this up if you like the Galactic Civilizations III from a couple of months ago, HumanKind from the beginning of this year, or really any Civilization-based game. It does feel more like a board game than those titles, but the smaller scale and more direct competition makes players focus more on interaction.
If you want to see more from me: Check out my video on this month of Game Pass games: https://youtu.be/tgNS9djM5ak
Offworld Trading Company reminds me of Civilization a bit, which makes sense as one of the lead designers of Civilization IV worked on this title and it shows. You play a space corporation, putting down your base, building different outposts, across the map, and trying to maximize your profits so you can buy out your opponents and that’s it. The game features limitations in the number of buildings players can create, which will challenge players to maximize what they use to gather resources and process them. Those claims add a lot of strategy to the game.
However, I’m not sure how this game is for longevity. The end of a game involves buying out the majority ownership of all the other companies, which appears to be the only victory condition. So you need to rake in a ton of profit, there’s only a handful of ways to do this. The end game feels interesting, but also like something would become monotonous because it’s mostly a waiting game to maximize profits. The idea though is fresh, and each of the corporations has unique benefits.
Pick this up if you like the Galactic Civilizations III from a couple of months ago, HumanKind from the beginning of this year, or really any Civilization-based game. It does feel more like a board game than those titles, but the smaller scale and more direct competition makes players focus more on interaction.
If you want to see more from me: Check out my video on this month of Game Pass games: https://youtu.be/tgNS9djM5ak