VGA Planets is a graphical, multi-player, play by electronic mail, space war game. This game simulates combat in space between galactic scale empires. The game emphasizes colonization of space and the development of the planets that you will find, colonize and/or conquer. How well you develop these resources will determine what kind of starships (freighters and capital ships) you will be able to produce and how well you will be able to defend your space and attack your neighbors.

Long has the game VGA-Planets been a domain of Windows & DOS users. With the Java client it's finally possible to play VGA Planets in Linux. The PHost project created a host programm working under many OSes (including Linux) a long time ago, so there is no need for Windows anymore to play or host VGA Planets.

VGA Planets is Shareware, you still need a registered original Planets programm to use registered functions, even though JVC and PHost are freeware / free software.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Java 1.4