Sidius Nova Reviews – Page 5
5/5 rating based on 51 reviews. Read all reviews for Sidius Nova for iPhone.
Sidius Nova is free iOS app published by Stefan Schmitt
Finally
Werthaus
Finally a game that's original, addicting, interesting and fun to play all at the same time. It's like every great strategy game on PC in the plam of your hand. The fighting is spectacular, the story is engrossing and the combat is intuitive. How is it that this isn't the number one game on the app store?
Not bad
Hjkl97account
It's ok for a free game. Gameplay is quick but feels repetitive. The Sci-Fi concept is interesting and it's what kept me playing for a bit. Overall I feel like it needs more depth, graphics, and the ability to skip Mothership explosions.
I came back for more!!!!
Coryn Avenguatde
This is truly a singular game, with no game coming close to it!!! I had to delete it once to get more space. Then a year later I spent 2 hours searching for it again!!!!
Bland, but want more
So very sad...
Arts great, setting is interesting. It's gameplay is absolutely bleh, but it's got enough eye candy art to keep your attention. I'd pay for the app if they polished the gameplay and focused more on the story.
Definitely Needs Improvement
IronSol
I cannot remember what the alien species name is. So, for the rest of this review, I will just refer to them as ‘the aliens’. When I first played the game, I actually enjoyed it. The combat and planet hopping had me ‘hooked’ for a while. At least, until I saw the games numerous problems: 1. The game does not allow you to retry missions to regain precious research points that you may have missed. The enemy(whether they are human or not) will continue to advance throughout the game. This alone is not a problem until you take into account the research aspect of the game. You unlock new ships by using research points or “RP” to research them. There are only two ways you can gain research points: by using real money via micro transactions to buy research points or by completing a mission. When you complete a mission, research points are given based on your performance. For instance, the number of turns that you took to defeat the enemy or how many ships were lost in combat. You can get a total of 200 research points per mission. The problem is that if you do not earn the entire 200( for instance, you receive 120/200), you cannot retry the mission to earn the remaining number of points; causing them to be lost forever. This, combined with the enemy’s gradual advancement and the high price of research, means that while the enemy is advancing, you will stagnate unchanging for a while. This could be fixed if the ability to retry missions was implemented into the game or if new ships were given as rewards for excellent performance or just for completing the galaxy( the game could say that we reached a technological breakthrough or that we reverse engineered their technology or vice versa). One last thing, I believe that the probe should be free of charge and not cost any research points. The probe seems like a necessity in this game for scouting areas and determining enemy strength and should be given to the player for ending the tutorial or for finishing the first galaxy. 2. The game crashes frequently. On my device, the game crashes frequently whenever I initiate combat. Obviously, this is unacceptable and extremely annoying to me; especially when I am attacking the enemy mothership directly. 3. The game is highly repetitive. Even after clearing several galaxies, I was largely just doing the same thing every mission with little variation. This causes the game to get boring very quickly. Even when you are playing as the aliens, you are doing the exact same thing, with the exact same ships but you are just fighting humans; who have the exact same ships and who will be doing the exact same thing as you. 4. There is very little variation design-wise in the alien’s ships. All of their ships, including their mothership, look like lazy redesigns of the human ships and mothership. I can understand that the ships serve the same function but I expected the alien’s arsenal to be radically different or just more artistically diverse considering how they are an entirely different species and based on the introduction into the game, humanity already had ships that looked just like theirs. In the game Starcraft 2, the Terrans and the Protoss are radically different design-wise, lore-wise, and technology-wise. The Protoss void Ray is effective against the Terran battlecruiser but is vulnerable to Terran Goliath missiles. This is an example of how a game can feature incredibly different species with different units and still be balanced. 5. There is no way to skip the long destroyed mothership animation. Honestly, this is just a little gripe I have but it is really annoying when I just have to sit there and watch a dying enemy mothership every time I win; especially if I am pressed for time. 6. The planets and stars are almost useless. The only use for planets in this game are to give you a number of resources to buy ships or to use as a warp gate location. There is no other function for planets. Personally, I believe that the developers are just scratching the surface for what a planet can be used for. Perhaps a planet or star can be fortified and have damaging effects for an enemy that moves within range. For instance, a fortified planet could debilitate the enemy by: reducing the number of enemy ships you must fight, making the enemy move slower across the map, making the enemies weaker/ have less health/ do less damage/ atacó at a slower rate/ etc. I have other problems with the game such as the lack of cutscenes, character depth, and character variety as well as a few others but I will not write about this at this moment in time. As I said, this is not a bad game and it has the potential to be a good, if not great, game. There are just many problems with the game currently that forces me to give this game a low rating.
Amazing game, multiplayer removed
Nametaken1234555
I found this game to be amazing years ago, but I came back to find that multiplayer has been removed...
Very disappointed
Dragonslayer63
I was enjoying the game until it just started repeatedly crashing over and over again when ever I initiated combat. It seemed like a very enjoyable game when I first started playing but turned out to be a very annoying problem to the point where I deleted the game because it was unplayable. Would not recommend. ?
Occasional Crashing
A Snoiper
I wish I could rate this 5 star because it’s super addicting and fun, but I keep crashing whenever i fight the enemy mothership. It gets super annoying because I keep having to replay the level until it doesn’t crash.