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Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Exogate Initiative is a 3d, strategy and singleplayer game
developed and published by Xeno Bits.
Released on January 28th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 3 languages: English, French and German.
It has received 577 reviews of which 424 were positive and 153 were negative resulting in a rating of 7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: AMD or Intel, 3.3 GHz (AMD FX 8300, Intel i5 3000)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD/NVIDIA dedicated GPU, 2GB dedicated VRAM (Radeon RX 560, Geforce GTX 1050)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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Finally I can live out my dreams of being the great hero of earth, Hammond of Texas.
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This game was awesome. It’s a flawed gem, but for me, it’s much better than the reviews suggest, and I could NOT stop playing it! Basically, its a base builder, with some RPG thrown in, a 4x meta game all fused together to perfectly reflect my perfect idea of a Star Gate SG1 game! The 4x elements have you expand the influence of initiative through known space, plenty of mission types on planets, new planet discovery mission, mining missions, life research missions, alien culture research, recruit aliens you find, artifact recoveries, and choose your own stories moments as you explore new planets ( with a level editor create even more of your own choose your stories) as you explore. The role playing doesn’t end there, you can choose the stats you want to improve of all your staff by setting what skills they train in, in their off time, they gain levels, and i didn’t discover this till late in the game but you can even equip your people with various gear. Base building is a lot of fun and you do have to defend your base from invasions, and build accordingly. i didn’t mention there are 4 other alien races in the game. One just invades your base, the other 3 you have to vie for control of the map for, you can do diplomacy, trade, war or win them over with your influence. The game is a real gem, but i did say it was flawed didn’t I. Yeah, the designer felt the intuitive design and a basic tutorial would be enough. It isn’t. I won the game and i still have no idea how some systems work, like COMBAT, yep i figured out a routine of how to survive but i can’t explain WHY it works, or even what the different options do, just trial and error. There are a lot of more involved systems in the game, where you just have to figure it out via trial and error. Most of the existing hints and walkthroughs are for the beta, which are really hit or miss on being helpful now. This is a great game, needing a decent manual. i figured out a lot, but so many gaps in my knowledge, i would be embarrassed to try to do a guide. This is my game of the month! Loved it! New classic for me, hopefully next time i play someone has put together a relevant walk-through of the systems and how they connect. I did miss mentioning a very interesting and compelling research tree, so many things you want, and deciding between them or working toward them make the research a fun little mini game. you have to get samples as well to fund that research, and sell patents to fund your base. Lots of depth and options. Very little of the +1 to a stat upgrade as a research option unlike some games. The game can end quicker, but you have to figure out how to trigger that. I think that criticism is fair, but reflects on the sub par decision of the developer to not provide a manual or explain some of the more involved systems somewhere.
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I have to say, I have enjoyed days of learning and playing this game. Until today. I lost. I wasn't defeated. In fact, I was growing my territory and defeating the enemies. No, I lost because the game arbitrarily decided enough turns have occurred and so awarded victory with the highest number of points. Wait, what? Seriously? Now it appears I wasted days of my life going after a victory that would not possibly because of a previously unknown time limit and a scoring system. I then decided to join the Discord server, which is woefully inadequate and doesn't even work. So I can't comment there and request an option to let the game play out until victory is assured. As a Stargate fan, this was fun to play and brought memories of the tv series'. But come one guys, a scoring system to end it and a time limit?
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Good game & motivating main game loop ("just send a research team to one more planet.."), motivating mix of base building and strategic expansion. Took me about 20 hours to finish the "main quest" on standard difficulty. The playthrough would be worth another 10 hours of gameplay easily to wrap up everything. Balancing wise, with standard difficulty, it felt maybe a bit too easy - money was not a limiting factor anymore after couple of hours, only various resources mostly because of questionable worker assignment behavior. Some details should be revisited, such as defense outposts on planets. Why spend lots of resources for building outposts and levelling up to L10, if after an enemy takeover attempt - even if you defended the planet successfully - the outpost completely disappears and has to be re-built from scratch..? The game was running mostly stable (1 crash in 20 hours gameplay), but I noticed a few issues (e.g. audio desync happening after 4-5 hours playing, restarting the game fixes this), and performance in late game with base built to the max is a bit problematic when enabling the highest speed setting (playing in 4k resolution, even on 12-core Ryzen 7900X with 32G RAM and RTX4090 graphics frequently start stuttering). Can recommend this game, and hope after a few software patches it becomes even better.
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TL;DR: you should absolutely play this if you've ever watched a non- Universe episode of Stargate , ever played Evil Genius , or enjoy lighthearted science fiction and low-stress management games. If none of that applies: how does Theme Hospital meets Strange New Worlds sound? Exogate Initiative is a delightful management/4X/base building game that absolutely nails the semi-whimsical, sometimes-serious, but never self-serious tone of its source material. I cannot imagine a more fitting Stargate game, and at this point it's pretty obvious that we'll never get a (decent) one in the franchise. But now that Exogate exists I honestly don't think I'd bother. Just pretend that the game you're playing is called Stargate: Cheyenne Mountain and you'll be pretty much 90% of the way there. Mechanically, it's a simplified Evil Genius -- easy to pick up, easy to play, but with fewer features and extraneous moving parts. Is it a bit janky? Is it a bit overstuffed? Are parts not fully (or at all, see 'Early Access' label) fleshed out? Sure. Is it fun as hell as a chill management game with some really fun bits of interstitial story? Absolutely.
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Exogate Initiative is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
Exogate Initiative is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Exogate Initiative received 424 positive votes out of a total of 577 achieving a rating of 7.00.
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Exogate Initiative was developed and published by Xeno Bits.
Exogate Initiative is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Exogate Initiative is not playable on MacOS.
Exogate Initiative is not playable on Linux.
Exogate Initiative is a single-player game.
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Exogate Initiative does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Developer
Xeno Bits
Publisher
Xeno Bits
Release
28 Jan 2025
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