The player is responsible for 3 main functions throughout the course of the game: colony management and resource production, exploration of the planets' surfaces for clues about the Tantalus's fate and resources and finally, technological advancement. The player can manually set the speed at which a turn passes which allows for a variable passage of time thus making much of the micromanagement in the game more manageable. Every action in the game has a time to completion based on a number of turns. As the player progresses through the main storyline through exploration and turn lapses certain challenges and obstacles present themselves to provide objectives beyond the stresses of simple micromanagement. In this sense the challenge of the game is not to overcome another faction that is in direct competition with the player but rather to overcome the environment itself during the process of colonization. Instead, the player simply expands colonies, explores the system and exploits the planetary resources unchallenged by any formal opposing faction.
There are no other players in the game or even computer-controlled AI factions to content with.
If games such as Civilization and Galactic Civilizations are examples of 4X gameplay then Alien Legacy would be a 3X. Gameplay The player plays the role the Calypso's captain and assumes direct control over all operations in the colonization process. The game is a turn-based strategy in which the goal is to explore and set up colonies on the different habitative planets in the system while uncovering the mystery of your ship's predecessor, the UNS Tantalus, which attempted colonization of the system itself but has since left only ruins. Introduction Alien Legacy is a game that was released for the PC in 1994 that places the player in the role of the captain of the UNS Calypso, a colonization ship sent from Earth to colonize the Beta Caeli system amid a war with an alien race called the Centurians.
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