In this strategy game, you manage a spacefaring race's military and economy, expanding into the galaxy. Includes development of technologies, resource mining, and fleet maneuvering.
AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 4.6. Trustworthiness 73 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 28 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
★★★★☆
4.6
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Ratings breakdown
5 star
82%
4 star
7%
3 star
4%
2 star
4%
1 star
2%
What to know
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Low review manipulation risk
28% review manipulation risk
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Credible reviews
73% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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High user satisfaction
82% of sampled ratings are 5 stars
About Spaceward Ho!
Unfortunately, you are not alone. Alien enemies bent on galactic conquest will oppose your expansion. You fight them by developing new technologies and expanding your empire, or you can ally with them to turn enemies into friends.
Terraform newly discovered worlds or mine their natural resources. Maneuver your starship fleets, both in defense of your own systems and in offensive strikes against the evil aliens. Your strategic decisions will determine the fate of the galaxy.
Based on the original Mac/PC/Palm game and updated for iOS.
For new players, read the Help file and also watch the tutorial video online. Please contact us on Twitter @SpacewardHo or Our Website, or send us email.
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Reviews for Spaceward Ho!
Makosuke
Still kicking after all these years
This app hasn’t been updated in nearly a decade, but it still runs nearly perfectly on a modern iPad, and even on a Mac. It handles being resized just fine, although in a perfect world it would return to the Mac (the proper Mac version is PPC only so hasn’t been usable in decades) with a more flexible layout designed for a bigger screen. The game plays exactly like I loved it back in the 90s, feels completely natural on a touchscreen—probably better than with a mouse!—and even includes the Easter eggs like special hats that appear on holidays. The only bugs I’ve ever encountered are very rare and only annoyances—inability to tap on things—and quickly solved by restarting the app. For old-schools have noticed only two differences, one good and two negative but cosmetic. The good is that if you set a fleet to scrap at the same time as evacuating a planet, it no longer dumps the metal on the abandoned planet, which never made sense. The bad is that aging ships no longer start to look rusty and old. The other negative one is more a UI change than problem; zooming in and out are super fluid and natural, but while the old desktop version. Would eventually shrink the planet icons down to mini sizes at distant zoom, the min icon size here is relatively large so with big galaxies the “big picture” view looks cluttered and confusing instead of expansive. It’d be nice to have it continue to zoom out instead. The one thing I miss is save-scumming; if you’re doing a massive galaxy a game can take many hours to complete, and there are two issues: One, if I make a stupid UI mistake like forget to set a colony ship to delayed arrival, it can literally end a tight game I’m 3 hours into, with absolutely no takebacks. That is, frankly, not fun, especially since the delayed arrival controls are a bit finicky. And two, sometimes I get an interesting situation but make some bad decision early on that ends up with a loss, and I’m always REALLY curious if the game was winnable had I taken a different strategy, but there’s now no way to find out. I really miss that.
Waltlaw
Timeless
I’ve played this game since the 80s, and hope to play it in my 80s.
