Alien Tribe 2: 4X Space RTS TD App Reviews

Alien Tribe 2 will steal your spare time and you wont mind one bit. The game is a mix-up between real-time strategy, a "4X" strategy game and a city simulator (such as classic SimCity). Much of the strategy revolves around shoring up your defenses against the Maloc, the evil aliens who want to blow up your interstellar plumbing. Get Zeus Warguns as soon as possible by building one of each kind of turret and then one military ship of any type, but then focus on colonizing planets so that you can unlock the ability to build full size warships. You need warships to deal with the long range "gel bombers" that the Maloc eventually deploy because your turrets cant shoot far enough to get the bomber. If you have no fleet, its game over if a bomber shows up. The game rewards exploration, so do it early and often. Missile Ships are actually the best explorers because they have a large sight range and can defend themselves against the CiTan energy blobs that roam around unexplored space. However, only Research Ships can scan for planets to prepare them for colonization and find Ark Ship components; and only Research Ships scan deep space to find asteroids--using freighters to mine asteroids is the backbone of your economy and the more the merrier. Send your freighters to different asteroids so the Maloc wont destroy them all at once. Eventually you will stumble upon several black holes in the galaxy (usually when one of your explorer ships mysteriously disappears). Despite the poor reception given to your explorer, black holes are actually your friend. The Maloc wont go near a black hole, so any facilities you build near (but not too close) to a black hole are safe from attack, save for the occasional CiTan (so you still need some defenses at your black hole base). You should connect your long range pipelines to a hub around a black hole with a construction base there to handle further pipeline construction. It sounds crazy, but you will be VERY thankful you have an unassailable central hub when you have to reconnect plumbing after one of your star systems is bombed. But because of those annoying blobs, you will need to station a warship or two to provide visibility; turrets cant shoot without visibility and structures away from a colonized star system must get visibility from military ships. And of course, the object of the game is to send your Ark Ship into a black hole (it has a warp drive that uses the black hole to make a dimensional portal). The Maloc will try to stop you but having that base there to deploy turrets will make actually winning the game much easier. Too bad the ending is sort of anticlimactic. I wanted to see the Maloc go down the hole.

How do I build a research station? No tutorial on this and its not listed under build options. The tutorial is severely lacking leading to a huge trial and error. I know how to set resource production bit which is food? If its the leaf I have it set to 100% and the people still starve. Really needs a better tutorial. Seems limited but keeping the 4 star as maybe its me. Look at star traders 4x for ideas because even without looking over that games tutorial it was easy enough to figure out and seemed to have a lot more content.

I am just an hour into this game but it is good o far. I like exploration and development o this game seems up my alley.

A good game that makes some hard choices about how to use your resources

Good time killer :). If youre a adrenaline junkie who needs to run around shooting everything that moves, this isnt your game. If you like a game that needs thinking and some planning, youll enjoy it

Decent game. Takes a while to get through the tutorial. Seems fun-ish.

Nice to not have a ton of in-app purchases required.

I think this game has a lot of depth, and it gets better with time. Keep playing and you will appreciate how much work the developers have put into this game.

Has some micromanagement issues, such as no auto add to new energy distributors and no queuing of builds.

I use to play it when it was free but I am happy its back. Just wished it didnt cost so much and was a bit more tech savvy.. ----------------- Update ; 1-21-16 This game is still fun and super addicting, the only thing I can think of improving is the ability to gain goes more and possibly even start off with more minerals and metals. Otherwise, still fun!

Good initial play. Not far into the game and need to see if it has depth.

The game is good,but kinda hard to figure out. It also needs more content. Other than that,a good space RTS.

Nice mix of exploration and strategy.

Its really fun once you get the hang of it. It could do a better job what to start out doing, but instead it just throws you in there. Challenging but fun!

My only real complaint is that once you start to lose its like watching dominoes fall. There just isnt a way to come back, its either extermination or total victory; no second chances or near misses.

Like it a lot, but about half way through and cant see any replayability.

Over all, a good game that makes you think before you make a move

Pretty good overall, but normal mode, hard and very hard mode are downright impossible without the use of GEOs. Easy and pretty easy mode on the other hand are laughably easy.

So this game is amazing fun. Fast pace strategy game. Only problem is the tutorial was short felt like somethings were not answered but it can be easily learned.

Good game....tutorial is kind of buggy