Particle Fleet: Emergence

Particle Fleet: Emergence

Knuckle Cracker · 2016

Design fleets, maps, and systems around your own ideas

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The WhatsNext verdict

If you enjoy physics-based RTS systems, fleet design, and creating your own scenarios, Particle Fleet: Emergence offers a distinctive and unusually flexible strategy sandbox. Players seeking a tightly paced campaign or memorable writing may find its uneven difficulty and story frustrating.

What it does best

  • Design fleets, maps, and systems around your own ideas

  • Physics-driven particles turn battles into living problems

  • Logistics and ship composition shape every advance

What might put you off

  • The campaign story can be a serious letdown

  • Early pacing and challenge feel uneven

The setup

What you are walking into

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Where it lives

LinuxPC (Microsoft Windows)Mac

Genre

SimulatorStrategyIndie

Vibe

Science fiction
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