• free Free FREE Nexus: The Jupiter Incident! Grab it!

    From rms@rmsmoo@moomoo.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Jul 3 07:20:54 2026
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    https://www.gog.com/#giveaway

    rms
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Jul 3 10:40:24 2026
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    On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 07:20:54 -0600, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> said this
    thing:

    https://www.gog.com/#giveaway

    A good game to grab. Alas, I already own it.

    [raise your hand if you saw that coming.]


    "Nexus: The Jupiter Incident" was originally intended to be the sequel
    to "Imperium Galactic II" but a rough development meant it eventually
    became its own thing. It's a neat little tactical-RTS, although I had
    the most fun with the game in its first half, when your spaceship used
    more 'realistic' Earth-tech. Once you get upgraded to the
    alien-spaceship, a lot of the game's appeal was lost on me.

    The actual gameplay was middling; it had some neat ideas that never
    got implemented all that well. It also hasn't aged that well and I
    remember it had problems running on modern hardware too (at least, the
    original disk-version did; it's possible that the digital-download
    versions fixed those issues). It was a neat game for its time but I'm
    not sure it's something I'd recommend playing nowadays.

    That said, everybody should snag it as a freebie. The Number demands
    it of you! ;-)



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