Planetarion is a online text based strategy game. When you sign on you recive a planet and some resources. At first you have to build a planetary mining station, something which takes 8 hours to build. That's 8 real time hours. Later you can begin mining at local asteroides. When you're out of asteroides and have enough ships, you can capture other asteroides belonging to other players. Sounds simple, dosn't it? Of course in between you have to do some research, maybe mingle in some politics and of course build your own personal defence system.

Most structures or vessels takes 2 hours or more to build, so this isn't exactly a heavy packed action game. Still it manages to be heavily addictive. I recomend this game to everybody who like to play games like Master of Orion, Civilization or any other Empire building game. Best of all, it's free.

URL = http://www.planetarion.com