Slow and boring – Galaxy on Fire™ - Alliances Review

I changed from an initial high rating to low after playing a while. This game is really dead. Hardly anyone plays and most everyone is inactive making the game boring. Moving your stuff between planets takes a really long time, hours to days or more. You have to have at least 10-15 planets or more and keep them built up and defended if you want to be able to compete with the few people that do play. Also there is very little actual strategy. Just having better ships troops and numbers than the other guy and that's it. You can't do anything clever to counter someone who spends more money or has bigger fleets. A huge negative is they won't let you change your name after you choose it even though you have a unique identifier number. There is no reason for not allowing this and this is a fun part of many other games even if you have to pay for it. It's the main reason I stopped playing. A great aspect of the game is the home planet system. It gives you 3 planets as a home base you can retreat to in order to protect your assets or rebuild and no one can attack you there. It's also nice that you can capture other player's planets and keep the built infrastructure. Also the interface for building is nice although it loses appeal after you have to spend so much time maintaining your 15 or more planets only to lose them if you turn your back.
Review by AnoarB on Galaxy on Fire™ - Alliances.