Game resources include energy that is used to upgrade and repair the starship fleet, metal to build planetary improvements and wonders, science to research additional technologies, and food for building and feeding cities. Each planet that is captured by a player can be upgraded by building more cities and purchasing improvements such as additional factories for increased supply output or planetary defense to protect cities against enemy fleets.
Each player in a game has a single fleet of ships that can be expanded in size and upgraded with better ship components. The overall gameplay focuses on traveling to individual star systems and planets to complete missions that further the influence and power of a player's federation. Each galaxy map and the various star systems and planets that populate it are randomly generated upon each new game. As with other games in the Civilization series, victory conditions include domination, population, wonders, and science.
Other options at the beginning of a new game include map size, number of opponents, difficulty, and which victory conditions are active. Ultimately, each affinity provides a gameplay bonus and changes the color of the player's starship bridge. The Supremacy affinity focuses on technology and science, Harmony instead focuses on the kingship between all living things, and Purity looks to history of past civilizations. Upon each new start of a game, players decide between the Supremacy, Harmony, and Purity affinities that determines the gameplay and portrait styles of each fleet leader.
Unfortunately, the focus on portable tablet gaming highlights many of the game's lacking components when played on PC. The focus on quick, simplified gameplay showcases its underlying focus for gaming on tablets rather than the PC. The other major difference with Starships compared to other games in the series is its focus on short matches that usually can be completed in a couple of sits. Through the journey players will encounter other human and alien spacecraft fleets and following with series gameplay decide upon a friendly diplomatic encounter or opt for the military confrontation route. Instead of expanding a civilization on a single planet, players are tasked with controlling a fleet of spacecrafts across their journey to various star systems and planets. Sid Meier's Starships from developer Firaxis Games follows last year's release of Civilization: Beyond Earth as a standalone title in the same universe with the major difference being its setting in space.
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