The Last Federation Released For Linux, Our Game-play & Thoughts

I have been chatting to the developers of The Last Federation for some-time now and have been able to play it before the release. I took a video and wrote down some thoughts on it.

The Last Federation on Linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4Y7JGdyKo&feature=youtu.be
Note: I sucked.

My Thoughts
It reminds me a bit of FTL for how brutal and unforgiving it can be, you only get one chance and if you are blown up on a mission that's it for you, time to start again. Like with FTL I am sure I will spend many multiples of hours trying and failing to win.

The Last Federation is good with hooking you in and leaving you wanting to know more. It staggers everything out slowly for you so you don't get too bogged down with details. This allows you to get right into the action, with just enough not to get confused and it does it well. There aren't many games that can accomplish the act of teaching you the game while remaining fun, but TLF nails it.

Every action you take will affect one race in a good or bad way and you can easily end up with a bunch of different races outright hating your very existence. You start off with one race hating you already for your little break-out, so it's not easy to get them back on your side, might be best to destroy them.

The graphics in The Last Federation aren't ground-breaking, but they fit the bill perfectly I thought and had no problems with it. Being a sci-fi space fan myself I found them quite pleasing.

Overall I would say it's a truly fantastic experience and I think you guys will too. It plays nice with multi-monitors too when full-screen which is a bonus.

About
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command.

Greetings, Hydral. I will be your computer for this "grand strategy campaign with turn-based tactical combat." I think that's code for "we're going to die."

Our solar system is vast and complicated, and I sense you are a little dimwitted -- so I tell you what, let's start with the simple stuff. Like escaping with this flagship you just hijacked from a bunch of angry robots. That seems important.

Please excuse my impertinence, but I believe you are the last of a murdered race, yes? My records note you Hydrals were the dictators of the solar system, so basically you had it coming. And by "it," I mean the moon that smacked into your homeworld. Hmm. So people really aren't going to like you until they get to know you. Well, only you can use the scattered remnants of advanced Hydral technology, so that's something.

Look, I'm not going to tell you what to do. My understanding is that you're trying to form the solar system's first-and-last unified federation, and that's noble enough. But right now nobody wants that except you, and you've got 8 very diverse, very angry races to either unify or exterminate. So... good luck with that. I'll help how I can.

Features

• Turn-based tactical combat, with up to 5 factions competing at once.
• Extremely deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. Even just watching everything unfold in Observer mode is entertaining, as nations rise and fall.
• New-player-friendly ramp-up of complexity as you play, which you can disable if you're already a veteran.
• Eight races each have very distinct personalities and attributes. Each one even has its own completely unique political system.
• Difficulty levels split between the grand strategy and turn-based combat portions of the game, both ranging from quite casual to incredibly hardcore.
• Save and reload your game with ease any time, or tough it out in ironman mode.
• Composer Pablo Vega's best soundtrack to date, featuring 54 minutes of music and the vocal finale "Lay Down Your Arms."

You can grab it on Humble Store or on Steam below:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.