- Price$5.99
- CategoryGames
- SubgenreStrategy
- First releasedApril 30, 2013
- Versions4 archived
- Installable4 of 4
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerBig Daddy's Creations
- Bundle IDcom.bigdaddyscreations.Eclipse
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Report an issueAlliances are shattering, and hasty diplomatic treaties are made in secrecy. A confrontation of the superpowers seems inevitable – only the outcome of the galactic conflict remains to be seen. Which faction will emerge victorious and rule the galaxy?
A game of Eclipse places you in control of a vast interstellar civilization, competing for success with its rivals. You will explore new star systems, research technologies, and build mighty spaceships. There are many potential paths to victory, so you need to plan your strategy considering the strengths and weaknesses of your species, while paying attention to the other civilizations' endeavors.
Eclipse other civilizations and lead your people to victory!
This is the classic version, which corresponds to the original board game. We're working on an implementation of the new version "Second dawn for the galaxy."
FEATURES
* Official iOS version of the 'Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy' boardgame * Deep and challenging 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) gameplay * 7 species with different strengths and weaknesses * Customizable star systems, technology tree and ship designs * Up to 6 players (human or AI) * Asynchronous multiplayer with push notifications * 3 AI difficulty levels * In-game tutorial & manual
Eclipse received multiple awards:
* 2011 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame Nominee * 2011 Jogo do Ano Nominee * 2012 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Winner * 2012 Golden Geek Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Winner * 2012 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee * 2012 JoTa Best Gamer Game Audience Award * 2012 JUG Game of the Year Winner * 2012 Ludoteca Ideale Winner * 2012 Lys Passioné Winner * 2012 Tric Trac Nominee
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Ratings Over Time
sampled from 7 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 4, 2013 | — | — | 1,558 | $6.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15okay, i bought this about a year ago, and the game played great. the ai was challenging but fair. all the combats played out properly. cut to 2017, there has been a couple of updates that ocurred in late 2016 since i last played. first problem, massive lag. i open the app and there is a several seconds of delay before the menu options appear. then, while playing, there's a 1-2 second delay after EVERY action. before the update, this was never an issue. during combat, there's a delay between every shot. the game no longer shows the dice rolls. you can't tell what's going on. then, the ai get broken sometimes. sometimes it gets stuck in a decision loop and just freezes. in one game, i moved my ships and then tried to undo the action and then the game glitched out, put my ships back where they were but then also left duplicates in the new sectors but then i was unable to end my turn. i could slide the button but the game would not allow me to end it. in another game, i saved the game to return to it later and when i reloaded the game, it glitched out and gave me maxed out numbers on every resource but i was unable to execute any commands and had to start over. this update broke the game completely FUBAR. the game is literally (not figuratively) UNPLAYABLE in this state. and it makes no sense, because the game was perfectly fine before. if not for this, i would have given it 5 stars, but in it's current state, i must rate it at the minimum and recommend that you do not buy it because it is broken.
This app is built with the original rules of the game, which had some balance issues. Notably, the missiles don’t require power, so loading them up on a dreadnaught with some computers is unstoppable. It also doesn’t implement some notable improvements from the game’s expansions, such as variable turn order. For some reason, the game also considers moving through an allied species’ unoccupied territory as an aggressive action and gives you the traitor penalty. Hopefully, the publisher will upgrade the app and enable content from the expansions some day. The actual board game is excellent in its current iteration.
Don’t buy. I finished my first turn and the game freezes with the next AI player “contemplating their turn”.
I have had this game for a few years and I decided to fire it back up after a year or so has gone by. Since it was so long I started the tutorial. When it came for the first ai player to go it got stuck on thinking and never proceeded. I could touch other ui elements and they worked but it was stuck thinking. I touched the menu button and the music changed but it was still on the tutorial screen thinking. Restarted the app and tried to resume but now the interface shows all resources at 32 and it is locked up. So sad, I do not want to try getting into a game because I don’t want it to lock up and this is not a quick 10 minute game. I hope the developers read this. I hope they fix it but to see the rating go down to a 2.6 at the time of this writing it does not appear they are taking it serious enough. There seems to be a lot of complaints. Seems like all they did was update this to note that is the first edition version. Since the 2nd edition is out perhaps they don’t care anymore. But then the update before that was 4 years ago. Abandoned? I guess buyer beware.
Game is defective. It does not function. Do not buy! Seller is defrauding the public and should be banned from the App market. Apparently the seller is knowingly selling a defective app that will not function. (See the many complaints.) Seller will not correct app so it can be played.
Crying shame too, used to be a favorite of mine.
I'm so happy to enjoy this board game on IOS. This is the surely one of the best 4x board game as well as the best ported IOS game yet the game system is difficult and not intuitive for newbies. As other revews already mentioned, it's getting quite often frozen not like previous version. (even during tutorial mode! Definitely update is required to fix them) But if you are real board gamer, you'll agree the game is too good to be underrated due to the bugs.
App used to work. These idiots ruined a perfectly good game.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.