Strategy games for the PalmOS are rather rare-Digital Eel’s Strange Adventures in infinite space is a pretty whacky, but well-done one.
The basic story is simple. An insane general wants to send you to an area of the space where little information is available. He provides you with a ship and sends you out on a simple mission: make me rich by gathering up stuff on planets, and return it to me when you’r done.
At the start of each game, a new ‘galaxy’ is created. The planets with a moon rotating around it were visited already, the ones without a moon werent visited yet(look at the two images for a comparison):
Whenever you visit a planet for the first time, an ‘action’ happens. You can find some inventary, a mercenary, a new item,… . Sometimes, you also find a thief or saboteur that damages your items-but that luckily doesnt happen too often.
Sometimes, you run into a ship when travelling from Planet to Planet. Then, it depends on the race you meet if its trading or fighting time:
The battles are ‘real time’, you get to choose which ships attack which other ones. The graphics of the battle scenes look pretty nice:
In addition, there also is a dedicated combat mode available. In this one, you can select a gang of enemies and proceed to duking it out with them:
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space has an excellent background music in some of the scenes is really nice, and the graphics look great too.
Overall, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space is a funny game for all those who like strategy games. One can play it for just a few seconds, and one game rarely lasts more than five minutes. However, each game is different, and the nice graphics/sound effects will keep you coming back again and again. A great way to survive those annoying breaks…
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