When comparing Imperium Galactica 2 vs Galaxy Trucker, the Slant community recommends Imperium Galactica 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best space-themed games for Android?” Imperium Galactica 2 is ranked 11th while Galaxy Trucker is ranked 13th.
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Pros
Pro Interesting space battles
Pro Diplomacy
Pro Espionage
Pro Epic story
Pro Design your own units
You can customize your ships with different loadouts.
Pro Interesting ground battles
Drop tanks and take over planets. Use the terrain to your advantage with hover tanks, or take the direct approach with heavy armor. Call in airstrikes from any starfighters that survived the space battle, or paint a target for your capital ships to bombard from orbit.
Pro City building features
Plan colony cities on planets. Buy buildings and levy taxes. Make sure there's enough food and power. Plan defenses against ground forces.
Pro Time based strategy
Users have to strategize how much time they can spend on balancing their ships to how much time spent looking at the upcoming rounds cards. This makes for fast paced decision making.
Pro Even doing poorly at the game is fun
Galaxy Trucker has lighthearted humor that can make even loosing at the game fun due to the scenarios that can play out.
Pro Fastest player sets the pace
Some games can be slowed down by a player that is lagging behind but in Galaxy Trucker the gameplay is set by the fastest player, which is refreshing.
Cons
Con Beginning of game is more exciting than the last two parts
The game is broken up into three phases with the first being the most exciting. This makes for unbalanced gameplay in that the other two sections feel a bit dull.