Big fan of strategy games! Everything Blizzard does, C&C, Alpha Centauri, Star General, all sorts of others.

Can't recommend this one since even on Beginner, you can't win unless you do very specific actions in a specific sequence or be annhilated. Also there's a big luck variable. Yes there are diplomatic, cultural, and all sorts of other potential victory conditions, it all means nothing since none of it actually affects anyone.

Even peaceful races will go to war with you by being Switzerland. Also, allies will give you everything they still own when they realize they can't win, which would be nice, but it only pisses off the other races that weren't fighting you yet, because now you're way too big for your own good.

Now, if starships didn't cost money per turn just to keep them in existance, then maybe I could build up an army big enough to keep random people from attacking me. But, you better have a sweet economy in order to work on an army, which brings up the luck. What if the planet/s near you aren't inhabitable or only crappy? Well then you won't be building fast enough and you'll be overrun. Yeah it'll take a while to realize it, but you already lost.

Big fan of strategy games! Everything Blizzard does, C&C, Alpha Centauri, Star General, all sorts of others. Can't recommend this one since even on Beginner, you can't win unless you do very specific actions in a specific sequence or be annhilated. Also there's a big luck variable. Yes there are diplomatic, cultural, and all sorts of other potential victory conditions, it all means nothing since none of it actually affects anyone. Even peaceful races will go to war with you by being Switzerland. Also, allies will give you everything they still own when they realize they can't win, which would be nice, but it only pisses off the other races that weren't fighting you yet, because now you're way too big for your own good. Now, if starships didn't cost money per turn just to keep them in existance, then maybe I could build up an army big enough to keep random people from attacking me. But, you better have a sweet economy in order to work on an army, which brings up the luck. What if the planet/s near you aren't inhabitable or only crappy? Well then you won't be building fast enough and you'll be overrun. Yeah it'll take a while to realize it, but you already lost.