The other three companies become the player's rivals. The player has to choose a company he or she will control. The game mixes resource mining and construction used in real-time strategies with a stronger economic element.
The full game was released for Windows and OS X on April 28, 2016. An in-development version of the game was released via early access. Offworld Trading Company was developed by Mohawk Games and published by Stardock. Players are warned when an opposing player earns enough money to buy them out (but the opposing player is not alerted), which usually results in tense, desperate races to earn money. If a player loses majority stockholdership in their own company, or is subjected to a very expensive hostile takeover, they are eliminated from the game, but can elect to watch as an observer. The end goal of the game is to buy a majority stake in every offworld trading company in the game. The goon squad protects a single structure from most sabotage actions, capable of stealing the sabotage for yourself. When a player purchases something from the black market, however, its price rises, giving a wary opponent a chance to prepare a defense, usually in the form of a goon squad. Through the black market, a player can purchase anything from underground nukes that wipe out resource pockets to mutinies that divert a rival's wealth into their pocket. The game also offers more direct ways of engaging a player. If a player is buying large sums of glass for an expansion, their rival could be gearing up glass kilns to make a handsome profit.
Finally, money can be produced by selling stockpiles of resources. Chemical refineries produce chemicals from carbon and fuel. Electronics factories produce electronics from silicon, carbon, and aluminum. Glass kilns produce glass from oxygen and silicon. Hydrolysis reactors break water apart into oxygen and fuel. Steel mills generate steel from iron.įarms make food from water. Power can be generated by building a power plant, with different limitations depending on the type of power plant being built, and is usually used to power buildings.
Water, Aluminum, Iron, Silicon, and Carbon are extractable from hexes that contain those resources. There are thirteen resources in the game. Regardless of their choice, players land their HQ and begin to construct resource extractors on the neighboring hexes. The players' choice of faction comes after they have their first look at the map, allowing them to tailor their choices to the situation. Offworld Trading Company puts the player in charge of one of four titular offworld trading companies. Offworld Trading Company features economic warfare ranging from hostile takeovers to sabotage. Offworld Trading Company is a science fiction themed real-time strategy video game. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in April 2016. Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Mohawk Games and published by Stardock.