Sidius Nova
Step into the gaming world with Sidius Nova, one of the top $1.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Stefan Schmitt, this captivating Strategy game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 9+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 12th December 2012, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 26th June 2023.
Whether you have a liking for Strategy, Action, games, Sidius Nova is sure to keep you hooked!
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by Stefan Schmitt and Ben Jelter -YOUR HOMEWORLD HAS BEEN DESTROYED- Your remaining motherships are the only way to guarantee the survival of your species. Collect resources to build ships for epic space battles.
"has the same ‘one more turn oh god one more turn’ hook that its grander siblings on the PC have" -KOTAKU
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HOURS OF STRATEGIC DEEP SPACE GAMEPLAY
Sidius Nova is a strategy game designed from the ground up to provide a deep and satisfying experience on your iOS device.
PICK A SIDE
Play as the last humans alive or an alien armada.
UNLOCKABLE SHIPS
Earn new ships as you play! Conquer entire galaxies and expand your fleet by researching new units. New units dramatically expand the gameplay by offering new defensive and offensive strategies.
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What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Sidius Nova on 26th June 2023:
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Hear from the Players – Sidius Nova Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Sidius Nova:
Do not recommend for people who actually enjoy more intense strategy games. Very simple and not the strategic depth we wanted Edit: Hi Stefen! Im not sure how to write a response to you, so we hope you are able to find this. We feel like the over world and battles need a bit depth. We felt like the battles where just a simple rock paper scissor style of combat. It was really easy to just store up enough resources and over whelm the aponte. The over world didnt seem to offer to much in the way of strategy either. We felt like all we had to do was find a place that would offer us the most resources and then send a huge fleet to destroy the enemy. We think adding a larger over world and a more in-depth battle style would be nice. Maybe a little more hands on approach in a couple areas would help? Adding more depth in the AI would help. Since its not multiplayer, we think thats where we would start. We dont want you to just focus on what Im saying because you are obviously doing something right and we hope you know that we think that developing this app is very impressive. No hate form us at all. We just dont think we would call it a deep strategy game. Best wishes! -Nico :)
We were enjoying the game until it just started repeatedly crashing over and over again when ever we initiated combat. It seemed like a very enjoyable game when we first started playing but turned out to be a very annoying problem to the point where we deleted the game because it was unplayable. Would not recommend.
We love it but do you think you can add a multiplayer or hot seat or just a skirmish we think that would make it a bit better.
We found this game to be amazing years ago, but we came back to find that multiplayer has been removed…
We wish we could rate this 5 star because its super addicting and fun, but we keep crashing whenever we fight the enemy mothership. It gets super annoying because we keep having to replay the level until it doesnt crash.
Game was decent until several crashes on .3rd system.
We cannot remember what the alien species name is. So, for the rest of this review, we will just refer to them as the aliens. When we first played the game, we actually enjoyed it. The combat and planet hopping had us hooked for a while. At least, until we saw the games numerous problems: 1. The game does not allow you to retry missions to regain precious research points that you may have missed. The enemy(whether they are human or not) will continue to advance throughout the game. This alone is not a problem until you take into account the research aspect of the game. You unlock new ships by using research points or RP to research them. There are only two ways you can gain research points: by using real money via micro transactions to buy research points or by completing a mission. When you complete a mission, research points are given based on your performance. For instance, the number of turns that you took to defeat the enemy or how many ships were lost in combat. You can get a total of 200 research points per mission. The problem is that if you do not earn the entire 200( for instance, you receive 120/200), you cannot retry the mission to earn the remaining number of points; causing them to be lost forever. This, combined with the enemys gradual advancement and the high price of research, means that while the enemy is advancing, you will stagnate unchanging for a while. This could be fixed if the ability to retry missions was implemented into the game or if new ships were given as rewards for excellent performance or just for completing the galaxy( the game could say that we reached a technological breakthrough or that we reverse engineered their technology or vice versa). One last thing, we believe that the probe should be free of charge and not cost any research points. The probe seems like a necessity in this game for scouting areas and determining enemy strength and should be given to the player for ending the tutorial or for finishing the first galaxy. 2. The game crashes frequently. On our device, the game crashes frequently whenever we initiate combat. Obviously, this is unacceptable and extremely annoying to me; especially when we are attacking the enemy mothership directly. 3. The game is highly repetitive. Even after clearing several galaxies, we were largely just doing the same thing every mission with little variation. This causes the game to get boring very quickly. Even when you are playing as the aliens, you are doing the exact same thing, with the exact same ships but you are just fighting humans; who have the exact same ships and who will be doing the exact same thing as you. 4. There is very little variation design-wise in the aliens ships. All of their ships, including their mothership, look like lazy redesigns of the human ships and mothership. We can understand that the ships serve the same function but we expected the aliens arsenal to be radically different or just more artistically diverse considering how they are an entirely different species and based on the introduction into the game, humanity already had ships that looked just like theirs. In the game Starcraft 2, the Terrans and the Protoss are radically different design-wise, lore-wise, and technology-wise. The Protoss void Ray is effective against the Terran battlecruiser but is vulnerable to Terran Goliath missiles. This is an example of how a game can feature incredibly different species with different units and still be balanced. 5. There is no way to skip the long destroyed mothership animation. Honestly, this is just a little gripe we have but it is really annoying when we just have to sit there and watch a dying enemy mothership every time we win; especially if we are pressed for time. 6. The planets and stars are almost useless. The only use for planets in this game are to give you a number of resources to buy ships or to use as a warp gate location. There is no other function for planets. Personally, we believe that the developers are just scratching the surface for what a planet can be used for. Perhaps a planet or star can be fortified and have damaging effects for an enemy that moves within range. For instance, a fortified planet could debilitate the enemy by: reducing the number of enemy ships you must fight, making the enemy move slower across the map, making the enemies weaker/ have less health/ do less damage/ atac at a slower rate/ etc. We have other problems with the game such as the lack of cutscenes, character depth, and character variety as well as a few others but we will not write about this at this moment in time. As we said, this is not a bad game and it has the potential to be a good, if not great, game. There are just many problems with the game currently that forces us to give this game a low rating.
Amazing game! It’s very fun & time flies while playing this!
This game is just amazing! Get this game! Not to mention the graphics is beautiful! The only thing we don’t really like is the slow dying of the mothership! But at least it’s beautiful!
In almost every aspect of this game, the features are magnificent including beautiful sounds and music, great graphics, and an awesome campaign. Multiplayer is also great but if they added a 2v2 it would be very cool.
Finally a game that’s original, addicting, interesting and fun to play all at the same time. It’s like every great strategy game on PC in the plam of your hand. The fighting is spectacular, the story is engrossing and the combat is intuitive. How is it that this isn’t the number one game on the app store?
This is an incredible game we can’t seem to take our eyes off it or put it down every attribute about this game is amazing and we’re glad it’s not one of those "waiting" type games because we honestly hate those games. 5 stars must have.
Possibly the best game we have ever downloaded.
We love this game, and would love to see more from this publisher.
Should be way more popular than it is.
This is truly a singular game, with no game coming close to it!!! We had to delete it once to get more space. Then a year later we spent 2 hours searching for it again!!!!
Wasn’t really sure what to expect when we downloaded it, but its a really fun game.
Love these type of indie games, love the strategy and the story.
From a technical perspective this game is superlative in every way. Its gameplay is clean, crisp, and straightforward. It doesn’t crash. It doesn’t lag. What you get are five-minute chunks of easy, enjoyable fun. There are three areas where the developers could improve it, however. First would be a longer single player campaign with more frequent dialog and perhaps even a few meaningful player-driven plot choices would be nice. Second would be minor UI tweaks. For example, they should add a "back" button so that you could go back to see dialog that you accidentally tapped past. There should also be an option to skip the agonizingly slow death animation of a mothership. Third, the mechanic for earning Research Points is flawed. The 5RP penalty for taking extra turns is ridiculous. What’s the point of saving up RP to buy the expensive ships if you’re going to get penalized for playing slowly enough to be able to afford to deploy them? The current model rewards only one strategy: rush to the enemy ASAP and mass produce cheap fighters. We feel this should be reworked– and by that we mean, drastically overhauled. Despite the above, we will say this is one of the best coded and most consistently fun games we have ever downloaded on an iPhone. We definitely recommend it.
Arts great, setting is interesting. It’s gameplay is absolutely bleh, but it’s got enough eye candy art to keep your attention. I’d pay for the app if they polished the gameplay and focused more on the story.
It’s ok for a free game. Gameplay is quick but feels repetitive. The Sci-Fi concept is interesting and it’s what kept us playing for a bit. Overall we feel like it needs more depth, graphics, and the ability to skip Mothership explosions.
This game is really fantastic. We fell in love with the art style almost instantly. Please make an iPad version so we can enjoy the art on a bigger screen.
Didn’t blow our socks off, but still a cool little game. We can see myself getting hooked on this.
A fun strategy game, but the missions need some work. Such as number 2, it is pretty much impossible to win, the AI cheats and overwhelms you with ships.
This game is horrible. We would rather play pac-man than this. Sure it looks good, but it is WAY too hard. We just started it and we lost already. The enemy has 10 friggin middle launcher ships (the most expensive once, at that) and only one planet. We moved our ship 3 times and got beaten. It is WAY TOO HARD. This is the worst game we have ever played in MY ENTIRE LIFE. When you fix the difficulty, you get 2 stars.
We’ve tried repeating mission 2 multiple times to find our self owning over 30 planets to be defeated by the AI that has 6 what the hell is up with this, somehow they aquired over 700 fighters with less than 10 planets and we can’t even afford to catch up…
We love playing this game, and best of all its free!
Our boy really enjoys playing this game.
Thank you Mr. GameDesigner. Great Job!!
This game is simple but interesting. Hope the iPad version will be available soon.
This game is fun if your into turn based strategies, plus it’s free! Needs iPhone 5 screen support though, then 5 stars.
Starts off like Rock Paper Scissors and then morphs into a deep and challenging strategy game. Lots of fun and beautiful battle scenes with great art.
Galactic conquest should be as easy as waving your omnipotent fingertips, sending hundreds of loyal subjects to their doom, amassing worlds upon worlds worth of riches, and summoning an army large enough to block out the stars to bring utter ruin and devastation to your enemies. With Sidius Nova, it finally is. This is the most elegant 4x game ever made, utterly simple to play, maddeningly deep, and it utilizes the touchscreen to its fullest advantage. Buy it now.
The person who wrote the soundtrack is in one of our classes, he’s a boss.
This is a great game artistically and mechanically. Everyone should try this one out. Our only gripe is lack of an iPad version. Otherwise, expanding the iPhone game works fine. Kudos to the team that put this one together!
Loving this game, great design, art and music. Pretty challenging too. Give it a shot.
Insanely addictive stripped-down 4X game. The real incredible part is the soundtrack. It’s unreal. Whoever wrote it should be seriously writing for blockbuster games, because as a consumer this is EXACTLY what we want to hear. God bless the man who composed it. He is a musical genius.
This game is fun to play, even if you are an alien, mutant, or cyborg.
In a sea of strategy games many have succeeded, as well as failed in what they may have to offer. But Sidius Nova is something very different than what we are use to playing, and while getting to know the basics of the game is easy, it starts to pick up and can be quite challenging. We have to say that our approach to this game is the same as when we first played "Another World" for the SNES back in the day i.e. Different genres, but very different approach to gaming then your typical run of the mill. This game is polished enough to where it doesn’t need a whole lot of over done graphics, and like how it has that dark ambient feel like Cloud City. We highly recommend giving this game a try being that it is free and it’s awesome! To the developer. We hope that you come out with an upgrade pack. Or a sequel. We believe that you have something here and would make for a good future franchise in strategy gaming. Don’t want to bombard you with ideas, but the skies the limit with this game. We feel guilty not paying for this.
Very easy to pick up how this game works. Amazing art and soundtrack!
Absolutely AMAZING soundtrack first of all. Love this game, It’s managed to eat up huge chunks of our free time already. In fact our only real wish is for a multiplayer mode. If you guys manage to add a multiplayer function in the future…. You’ll have a sincerely hooked life long fan. -Bows-
We have nothing bad to say about this app. It’s beautifully designed and its really fun to play. Adding an endless mode as well as some kind of asynchronous multiplayer would be amazing.
A perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy. Very well polished with fantastic atmosphere.
This game is both beautiful and engaging. It surpassed our hopes for every element we want from a mobile game. Thoughtful design, brilliant, inspired art and a flawless gameplay. See for yourself!
This is a fantastic and fun game. Excellent soundtrack, very polished art style, and clear easy to use controls. In essence it combines the grand strategy of a 4x game (stripped to its barebones- in a good way) with RTS combat divided into lanes. The grand strategy is simplified by having a single mobile resource gathering and production unit. And limiting your movements to 3 per turn. The RTS component has you deploying your ships in lanes and each ship type is limited by what you brought into the battle and an cool down timer. Initially you have access to three ship types that interact in a classic rock-paper-scissors manner, but you unlock more ships that add laters to the strategy as the game go on. Each system can be beaten in a few minutes (15 is our longest so far, shortest was about 4) so it makes for a good portable game length unlike its larger pc brethren. That being said the story campaign connects these smaller skirmishes. Great game. Highly recommended.
Just PLEASE don’t spoil this artwork with ads or in app purchases, please, please, please!
Wow! Hours of fun. They were right. We have to consciously tell myself to stop. This is great!
When we play most games on mobile, we imagine a big group of managers arguing over the best monetization strategy. This game is for real.
Awesome strategy game, great art!!!
Great user experience, art and awesome music! This game is truly enjoyable to play and explore.