Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes forces players to make hard choices

Ronald D. Moore’s post-apocalyptic science-fiction series Battlestar Galacticaspanned a miniseries, four seasons, and two movies, but it was never better than its first episode. The Hugo Award-winning “33” is a grueling 45 minutes of television, where the robotic Cylons follow their nuclear assault on humanity by pursuing the survivors through space. The Cylons somehow zero in on the ragtag fleet’s location every 33 minutes, attacking them until they can make another faster-than-light jump. That relentless tension serves as one of the touchstones for Alt Shift’s Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, a roguelite strategy game coming to PC later this year.