If you’re interested in 4X games at all Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is only $1.49. It absolutely holds up and to this day probably still has the best story of any 4X game.
It also works great on Steamdeck with a couple of easy tweaks. Unfortunately the instructions for those tweaks are currently in Reddit blackout shutdown limbo so I can’t copy them here, but when the blackout ends you can Find The Instructions Here.
If you’re interested in 4X games at all Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is only $1.49. It absolutely holds up and to this day probably still has the best story of any 4X game.
It also works great on Steamdeck with a couple of easy tweaks. Unfortunately the instructions for those tweaks are currently in Reddit blackout shutdown limbo so I can’t copy them here, but when the blackout ends you can Find The Instructions Here.
It’s out of blacklist limbo
I believe these are the instructions.
My Alpha Centauri.ini,
Thing that finally did the trick was disabling the intro video.
[PREFERENCES] ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 [Alpha Centauri] ds3d=1 DirectDraw=0 eax=1 FastUnitAnim=0 SmoothUnitAnim=0 MainFontSize=16 InterludeFontSize=16 DisableOpeningMovie=1