Recent reviews by Seth'cor

So this is one of those times I wish there was a natural response. As the game stands, it needs work, the potential is there for sure though, it has a strong framework. The issue is the balance of the game itself. It is obviously meant to have a large number of colonists, but as it stands having more than 10 or so is vary hard because of the balance with oxygen, and bugs revolving around building areas for the colonists. The factory side of things is done fairly well, though the resource harvesting side of things has issues.

Interesting looking game, cant play it much thanks to bugs making quest npcs noninteractable. Wait till they fix some of these bugs.

Honestly, I want to enjoy this game but, it just isn't fun.

Its like they took the worst games in a few genres and bashed them together. The exploration is tedious and gets stale fast, can only visit the same POI so many times. I mean seriously I ran into this same mining station dozens of times, and each time they would ask me to go retrieve some worker, either from a nearby cave or house.

The planets are dull boring and lifeless.

The story just doesn't catch my interest at all either. The characters don't give me any reason to care about them. the initial start just seems contrived and forced.

Than the planetary build system is just horrible. I mean, I am glad you can just skip it. The team that worked on that should be fired and banned from ever working on games again.

The ship system was neat, though finicky as heck when it came to part placement, the snapping often trying to snap to the wrong spot.

Honestly, the game can be fun. But the issue is pacing and the UI, there are a lot issues with the ui i think need fixed, especially late game as you get more stations, should be able to organize them in some way. ie show ones with ship building capabilities at the top, sure you can change their symbol but you still have to scroll through a lot to find what you want.

The story is what gets me with this game. it is a great one, well written. well executed. The endings can really hit hard too. Sure when it first released it ran like crap. but over all the game is great. The 2.0 really changes up a lota of combat mechanics and makes for quite an interesting alteration.

The fewest Words to describe the game with be Very wide little depth.

The gameplay is engaging, but sadly not one that triggers the one turn more like many similar games can.
Why am i recommending it than? Well, it has potential. The game as is has a lot of issues, many I hope they work out as time goes by. The Ai tends to be very timid in attacking when it is uncertain of victory in a specific fight. It will often shy away from 3 stacks if it can not beat those stats with its own, even if it has 6 or more stacks nearby to do a followup attack with.
The customization is quite a lot, though in the end as a game progresses that initial customization matters less and less.




Pros
Lots of customization.
Lots of unit types
Lots of research
Cons
Horrid story missions
Little depth to the game play.
AI is just horridly bad.
Occasional crashes in my 80ish hours i had 5.

If you are looking for a story of any kind run away. The dialog is funny but not because it is good or intended to but because it is so bad.

The gameplay loop however is an interesting loop, though I do foresee it getting repetitive fast. each fight only last a handful of turns, yet can take a considerable amount of time if you want to optimize it. I am however disappointed in how many times the maps are simply out in the open with little cover to utilize, especially since that was a major point of the 5 second prediction mechanics

So having finished the game I can say at first I found it rather fun, but it got very tedious as the game went on.
Combat was enjoyable, even if a bit clunky once more than 3 enemies got near you. However, the exploration aspects were horrendous. Sure some of the navigation was neat. but when it is constant the interesting movements just became monotonous. The constant need to backtrack and repeat through areas if you wanted any of the collectibles as you unlocked new movement and force abilities was tiring. Short cuts were to and far between often giving a rather complex path of their own just to use them.

So over I would not recommend the game and glad I picked it up during a steam sale.

The game just seems to have to many bugs as is, I have yet to get past the point in a game where water rises without the game crashing.

One problem that is also slightly a good thing, scaling difficulty. Each mission takes into account what you have to deploy to keep the mission from being too easy, problem is. the game is easier to play with a weaker line up of ships than stronger, capturing is less important over all. I wish there was a setting for this scaling difficulty.