Infinite Lagrange (Review): Cross-Platform Space-Themed Strategy Game

Last Updated on April 1, 2023

Space-themed games usually offer many features beyond galaxy exploration, planet colonization, sci-fi technologies, and war between factions. In this article, we have reviewed a space-themed strategy game called Infinite Lagrange.

This review is NOT sponsored by the Infinite Lagrange developers.

Infinite Lagrange adopts a lot of sci-fi elements to provide an attraction for players. In this simulation game, you start by establishing your base. Then, you can gather nearby resources, defeat enemy fleets, play with your friends or other players, join or form an alliance, and explore a large region of an enormous solar system ​[1]​.

Summary

Price: Free-to-play (with in-app purchase)
Total File Size: ~ 2 GB
Download for Android: Google Play, Rating: 4.1/5.0.
Download for iOS: Apple App Store, Rating: 4.3/5.0.
Also available for PC, download from Infinite Lagrange website.

Pros:
+ Impressive graphics
+ story progresses with all players
+ Simple but realistic
+ Translate button
+ PvE with your union

Cons:
– limited action options and battle system
– steep learning curve
– slow actions
– poor unit pathfinding
– gacha with minuscule rates

Pros

Impressive story and environment

With the massive solar system environment, Infinite Lagrange gives the freedom to explore an immersive PvE universe. Although, you may need to spend a lot of time just exploring 1 of the 13 regions. Moreover, Infinite Lagrange offers impressive and realistic graphics you can enjoy while playing the game.

Also, a story goes on in this game, where each player contributes to the main progress. In short, every player on the server has the same goal, to capture all cities and build a Lagrange Gate. Yet, capturing a city requires the power of a union (or alliance). Otherwise, it is almost impossible to do it solo.

Simple yet sophisticated

In the beginning, you will have a small base and a couple of frigates. Then, you can start mining resources and expand your base and territory in intergalactic space. To improve your warfare, you can do research and improve your base. In the late game, it also makes you feel the complexity of real-time gameplay systems.

In terms of military, Infinite Lagrange offers several types of ships, such as frigates, destroyers, cruisers, battlecruisers, and carriers ​[2]​. Besides, aircraft carriers could carry small units such as corvettes and fighters. After understanding these ship types, you can manage the ship composition for your powerful fleets. In addition, you could customize the modules (e.g., weapons and armor) for any ship variants. These features lead to a unique strength for your fleet.

Meanwhile, Infinite Lagrange has a simple battle system. Find any target and sail your fleet to defeat them. Nevertheless, a “fog of war” makes the possibility of many strategies, from a direct attack to a well-planned ambush.

Translate button

Infinite Lagrange is one of the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games where public, private, and group chats are essential. However, a server may consist of players from different countries. Thus, language barriers can affect cohesiveness, responsiveness, and other group actions. Then, developers provided a translate button in the chat or mail feature to solve this issue.

Cons

Restrictions and limitation

The developers applied several restrictions to this game. First, the existing Action Point (AP) could limit your action. Currently, you may have a maximum of 150AP, which replenishes +20/h. If you are active in battle, it could give you 15 battle actions, and you will run out of your AP. In addition, it may require you a night’s sleep (7-8 hours) to replenish your AP from 0 to a full 150AP.

Second, every action in this game is very time-consuming. Building and researching could take minutes to hours, depending on the levels, but the outcome is sometimes worth the effort. In addition, moving your fleet also takes time. You may need to spend 5 to 10 minutes just going to a nearby location. Yet, nearby friendly bases could reduce the fleet’s moving time by allowing a warp.

One limitation of Infinite Lagrange is its basic battle system. It means that the battle strategies and actions are limited. Suppose your fleet engages in a battle. It will proceed automatically until the end. That means you cannot change the current target or move the ship to another position in battle. You can only wait until the battle ends or retreat.

Even so, the developers might remove or change any of these restrictions in the future.

Gacha Element

This game adopts the gacha mechanic to obtain better blueprints for ships and techs. Although, we can play this game and the gacha system for free using the in-game currency. Meanwhile, it is common that buying gacha elements is costly, with a minuscule chance of getting a powerful ship blueprint or high-rank weapon tech. In this game, all players will have a standard blueprint set containing a frigate, destroyer, cruiser, battlecruiser, carrier, and corvette. However, it is obtainable after doing research or leveling up.

Bug Fix

There is a case where your fleet may get stuck at some point. Then, to fix that, there are some tricks you could try as follows:

• Close the game app the re-login to the game. Because Infinite Lagrange is an online game, exiting and re-login to the game may fix this problem.
• Retreat the fleet. Mostly, retreating the fleet may solve this issue. But make sure you have tried re-login to no avail.

Tips

Although the in-game help describes most of the information, some are not. Therefore, you should know the following when playing Infinite Lagrange:

1. You can only mine an ore resource with two mining fleets inside your Intermediate/Advanced Mining Platform ​[3]​.
2. The Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Mining Platform area give ships a mining speed bonus of 4%, 10%, and 30%, respectively ​​[4]​. However, this benefit only applies to the owner of the mining platform. In addition, only the owner and his union members could mine on that platform.
3. Although you have retreated your fleet, sometimes it doesn’t return to base. It will go to the “rectangle” operation where it previously stopped.
4. Projectile and missile weapon has low hit rate. For example, FG300 hit rate is around 50% ​[5]​. Therefore, you may need to enchant its hit rate before other weapon enhancements.
5. Some aircraft have physical armor (Vitas series, Bullfrog, RedBeast, and Silent Assassin), some have energy armor (Stingray, SC020, and SC002), whereas other aircraft have no armor at all.
6. When attacking a city, you can lure “intercept fleets” one by one and defeat them. This way, you could reduce the number of city protector ships.
7. Assure your union does not use the target outpost for rally points before relocating your base. Otherwise, relocating will cancel those rallies.

References

The cover Image is taken from Bleeding Cool