Eclipse - 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy

Too many bugs (not being able to influence a sector after combat, no discovery token given after winning combat against Ancients) and a completely broken multiplayer lobby (can't name game rooms, rooms and friends not showing up at all). Combat dice roll calculations cause animations to hitch a lot. Battles are boring to watch for a digital adaptation. UI is barely passable, and undoing an action is only available after the entire action is already complete (can't change your mind halfway through multiple activations). Horrible port overall, play this on Tabletop Simulator instead with real people.

Multiplayer is dead. I didnt try with friends yet. The game is just an OK adaptation. nothing crazy. On single player, it sometimes freezes and crashes (I noticed it happens when Im in Fullscreen, and click on "go back to menu"), but (so far) the game was always auto-saved at the beginning of my turn and could resume with no issues. The game startup is pretty fast, so is an annoyance I can live with. There is one thing about the INFluence action that after checking in the manual and when I have played in the physical boardgame, seems like its a missing feature: With the INFluence action you should be able to move influence disks from your influence rack to any empty adjacent sectors to any sector you own/have a ship on. When I use the INFluence action in this PC version, it only allows me to Uninfluence sectors; but not to Influence them. Only after the combats you can influence sectors, but only if you have a ship on them, which is incorrect, as you should be able to influence them as far as its an empty adjacent sectors to any sector you own/have a ship on. Anyway I will give a thumb up because Im having fun with it, but its true that is far from being "solid".

My highest recommendation. Any number of players (2-6) makes for a good game. Supreme replayability due to the randomness of technology availability and system exploration. The ultimate space 4X game. NOTE: If the game doesn't let you populate planets in a system you conquered, it's not a bug -- you had no more colony ships available.

first simple game mechanic is bugged. When you uncover an Ancient the game gives you the discovery tile straight away with no battling the Ancient first, therefore the game is not even following a basic rule. 0/10

It's a great implementation of the physical board game, albeit the UI is a bit clunky at times, and it takes some getting used to find what you are looking for. For a quick way to just have a quick game however, this is very convenient. Recommended for those who love the board game.

Game just doesn't hold up on a PC. A few repeated plays and this game becomes very boring.