Players will first choose their CEO, which will designate what HQ they will begin with, but they will also start with some perks specific to the CEO. The single player campaign sends you on a quest to financially conquer all of Mars. Between fending off sabotage attacks from your competitors and firing off a few of your own, money-grabbing is as much about power as it is survival as you move from one beautifully designed map to the next. What awaits us is a brutal competition for land and resources that makes the Wolf of Wall Street look like a pup. We’ve used up much of her resources and must travel to other planets to save human kind. Offworld Trading Company begins on the premise that Earth is dying. Tutorials? Who has time for that? Offworld Trading Company said I did, and they not only sat me down and made me pay attention, but they did it in a way that didn’t leave me confused at the end. I just want to run in, guns blazing, and figure it out from there. I’m not the most strategically-minded person, but a shoot-first-ask-questions-later kind of gal. You’ll find me keeping tabs on the latest sci-fi, horror, and narrative adventures, partially because I only have so many hours in the day of free-time, but also because when it comes to strategy games, there is a high learning curve with me. I’ve never been the first person to grab a strategy game, new or old.
