Game publisher Iceberg Interactive have announced today that Star Lords, the latest title from indie developer Arkavi Studios, is available on Steam Early Access now.
Star Lords is a 4X space strategy game in the vein of Galactic Civilizations or Sins of a Solar Empire. The game will offer a large universe to explore, deep and complex gameplay, customization options, and more.
Features include:
- Living, Breathing Universe: in addition to the major powers, independent races and pirate clans also claim the galaxy as their residence – use them to your advantage
- Economic and Political Layers: War isn’t the only way to weaken one’s enemies; diplomacy, intelligence and trade are very powerful and effective tools
- Eight major races each with their own ship designs, technologies, unique traits and unique abilities.
- Create and customize your own ship designs
- Generals: Unique and powerful units evolve as they battle
- Randomly generated universe, tech tree and units – never play the same game twice
- Empire shattering: unrest might lead rebels to start a civil war which in turn might lead to the creation of a new, independent empire that might grow to rival your own
- Plotting: secretly finance a war against your enemies in order to weaken them or prepare a surprise joint war along with your allies in a bid to destroy that frighteningly fast growing empire
- Human-like AI that doesn’t cheat and plays by the same rules as human players, while presenting a constant challenge
- Modding support
- LAN, hot seat and online multiplayer with matchmaking
For $19.99 you can get access to the game via Steam and be involved in the rest of the development process by providing feedback and offering suggestions for updates.