>"I love the idea of grand sci-fi strategy games like Stellaris and Endless Space, but I have no patience for them. The micromanagement overwhelms me, and I always give up before finishing a game. So when I heard about Slipways, a new strategy game that lets you build a space empire without the busywork or time investment, I felt like someone had made a game specifically for me. Start a game of Slipways and you emerge from a wormhole into an unexplored, randomised galaxy. All around you are circles representing discoverable objects, including planets, asteroids, and the salvageable remnants of an ancient space-faring civilisation. Launch probes from the wormhole and the details of these objects are revealed, like whether it's an arid desert planet or an Earth-like world. Then it's time to build your empire."