You do seem to post announcements at weird hours this week...

What's a weird hour for you and me, might be a very good hour on the other side of the pond.

Agreed. Those Swedes and Estonians are always active in the weirdest hours.

So, when is GOG going to release Halcyon 1-5? I want to play them too. It is like when I saw the movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space", I was miffed I hadn't seen the earlier movies in the series, Plans 1-8.

Well considering the link doesn't work and because the lack of a news post, I assume this is automated and it has fired a little early. Just another day of bugs on GOG.

Gremlins?

Ghost? Regardless, something funky was up and 9 times out of 10 we can chalk it up to a bug around here. I guess we found the 1 out of 10 this time. :P

Nice.

Might have to give the game a third play through then..

I can highly recommend this one to anyone who hasn't picked it up yet.

So will there be a Faster Than Light edition later on?

I love Strategie/RPG-Hybrids but i was turned away by some of the more bad reviews. Why would you say it's worth the bucks?

Free content upgrade to a more polished version is always very nice.
Looking forward to play this one, bought long time ago.

I hope this means Star General is being released today.
Or at least Blade Runner.

It's a really great game that the developers are really passionate about. I bought it day 1 (on a whim basically because I really liked the sound of it) and played through it within a few weeks, I did another run about 6 months ago and the devs have updated and improved so much it almost felt like a different game. And there have been at least two biggish updates since then with new stuff.

As for the gameplay itself, it really reminds me of X-Com more than anything else (though I've only played the recent remake one and not for all that long) in that you're constantly reacting to attacks and events from various aliens while trying to build your base up to upgrade your fleets.
The combat is modelled on JRPG style turn based combat but with a really nice rock-paper-scissors kind of system to status effects. Different attacks cause different statuses (anything from lowering enemy accuracy or evasion to damage over time) and these statuses can then be exploited for massive damage bonuses. It makes the combat a lot of fun, and as it is the bulk of the gameplay that's a good thing as (for me anyway) it never really got tired. Since I've last played they've also added a morale system, but I don't know how that works with everything else.

Graphics are really nice, good quality pixel art. The story is decent and the interactions with the other aliens quite humorous (it goes for a semi-silly tone) and well written. There's quite a bit of content and replayability.

All in all it's just a really great game, one of my favourites of recent years.

Hope that helps. If you have any specific questions or concerns fire away and I'll see what I can tell you.

Where is the Mac version?