14 DAY TRIAL // If you are a fan of turn based science fiction trading games, you will be really pleased to find out that Niels Bauer Games has just released Smugglers 4, which promises to solve some of the most annoying problems brought by similar titles. And they seem to be pretty sure their game is really a great one, since they're offering it with a 14-day money back guarantee and even a free trial on their official website (you can also purchase it there).
In Smugglers 4, you can choose to be one of the many available characters, such as a greedy trader, an ambitious bounty hunter, a ruthless pirate and others. You have complete control over your life, according to the developers, and you can perform all sorts of actions, from managing your crew to issuing orders and boarding enemy ships to take over their fleets. Also, Niels Bauer Games promises to fix one of the most upsetting problems of space trading games: the huge, boring amounts of time wasted on traveling from one galaxy to another. How does it manage to do that? Easy: by making the entire game turn based and thus reducing the speed of traveling to seconds.
However, this does not mean that Smugglers 4 lacks complexity: there are 24 star systems in the game and 75 planets, professionally crafted planet art and a wide range of ships, weapons and defense systems. Also, this space TBS offers an open-ended gameplay with virtually limitless opportunities - all your actions will have an impact on the outcome of the game, and the developers promise that no new game will be similar to the one you have already played. The game's unique text engine provides an enormous variety of story lines and mission descriptions, and more than 10,000 different descriptions of your battles and outcomes. Quite interesting!