Gamespot:
A good 4X strategy game is a bit like a slow-burning fire--something to be stoked every now and again with a click of the mouse and watched through half-lidded eyes into the late hours. When that contented sort of complacency sets in, I'm more easily coaxed into "just one more turn." These empire-building games make it easier still because they tend to defer the consequences of poor moves. Mistakes amount to small hang-ups in the otherwise effortless forward momentum of upgrades and technological developments, lost in the spaces between ascending data points on one of the genre's ubiquitous end-of-game line graphs. It's only when I come out of my daze a few scaled eras later that I often find myself long surpassed by opposing empires, the graphs telling a story of steady mediocrity since, oh, sometime in the Middle Ages when production took a brief turn towards the slightly sub-optimal.
Justin at Skewed and Reviewed looks at Star Drive 2 and liked what he saw. He enjoyed the mix of action and strategy, although he did have a few issues with the final game.
GES Writes: "Explore the stars, meet new civilizations and investigate abnormalities. Stardrive 2 allows you to do all this in an epic 4x Strategy game by Zero Sum Games and Iceberg Interactive.
The first Stardrive was a great success and Stardrive 2 is following in it’s foot steps. 4X Strategy games can become monotonous very quickly especially as most do not have a story line or structure to follow. In its own rights 4x Strategy games is about freedom and building your empire your own way but there is something different from Stardrive 2. In the beginning it felt like any other 4x Strategy but the more I played and when I actually started grasping the way this game goes it kept drawing me in."
Not the easiest 4X introduction, but offers a unique option for those searching for an empire-builder.
Full review by Cory Galliher on Popzara
