Chaos Galaxy 2

Chaos Galaxy 2 is a retro-style grand strategy game set after an alien invasion brings down an empire that ruled the galaxy for a millennium. Imperial admirals, pirates, merchants, cultists, mercenaries and colonists fight for hegemony as rebellious AI legions and alien hive fleets prey on humanity. You lead a faction through the conflict, using military, economic and diplomatic strategies to guide humanity’s survival.

Build and command

You establish farms, hives, laboratories, orbital shipyards, arm factories and space fortresses on planets. Produce hundreds of ships and mecha, appoint commanders to lead your fleets, defeat enemy fleets and capture their planets. You can also study aliens to create bio-mechanical legions.

Commanders can use tricks to gain advantages beyond battle and tactical skills to turn a fight around. The game includes a dozen major factions and more local forces. Diplomacy lets you make allies and vassals or weaken relationships between your enemies.

Factions and policies

The galaxy’s factions fall into eight types, each with its own rules and special planetary building. Each faction also has a policy tree that grants five unique units and dozens of economic and military effects. Faction type shapes how you play:

• Imperial factions: compete for imperial offices to increase fleet troop limits and commander abilities.
• Pirate factions: capture enemy ships and arms as they flee from battle.
• Mercenaries and assassins: take on quests for their respective groups.
• AI factions: steal and study other factions’ blueprints.
• Businessmen: trade and invest.
• Revolutionary factions: spread propaganda to incite enemy planets to revolt.
• Aliens: devour planets to absorb life-gene.

Events and technology

Relationships between heroes and hundreds of events shape the campaign. Events include civil wars, discoveries of new weapons, trading for lost technology from the wandering ark, and opportunities to get help from powerful mercenaries or a fearsome flight gang.

You can develop bio-mechanical units by fighting aliens, obtain lost technology from the wandering ark, or acquire enemy blueprints by destroying their factions.