Final Theory

good

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I only got about an hour in before getting bored, so maybe there's a lot of depth I just didn't get to, but this is just a competently executed port of an unimaginative tabletop game. It's the structure of competent execution that an indie studio should be using as the basis for some creative mechanic or story. Only, there is no such creative mechanic or story in this. It's just a basic expression of any one of a thousand mediocre tabletop games, turned into a mediocre video game. You move the ships on a standard point/link network, and fight in a standard hex-based combat map. What finally broke the camel's back is when my small corvette interdicted an entire salvo of fire from the much larger cruiser behind it. In space. I get that friendly faire is a fairly straightforward mechanic in grid/hex based tactical games, but having it in a space game just really drives home the point that the devs pulled too many bog-standard tropes from the bog-standard game kit and put them together into a truly uninspired game. To put it another way, if you've ever seen Yatchtzee Crowshaw's end-of-year rankings over the last few years, this game would absolutely feature on the "Blandest" list, not the "Worst" list.

caught the game on sale for 70% off. i don't think it's worth full price, but it's definitely worth 66% of that or less. keep in mind i have not bought any DLC for the game, i just watched one youtuber i like play this game & decided to try it myself pros: - lots of difficulty options: accessible to unskilled players, and still offers fresh challenges to veterans - campaigns last 2-4 hours and are quite addictive & replayable - many different strategies you can experiment with in different runs - surprisingly fun combat system. this is coming from someone who generally dislikes turn based games btw cons: - do not read if you don't want to know the meta [spoiler]the game expects you to spread out upgrades over multiple ships, but it's coincidentally much more efficient to dump all of your resources into the smallest & largest ship classes (for the basegame ships). by doing this, your fleets will have less variety but more upgrades than your enemies. also stacking frigates gives your fleets absurd shield piercing buffs[/spoiler] - enemy AI feels dumb and predictable, especially in combat. in the galaxy it seems to be more RNG than strategic - even though the campaign system is overall pretty fun, it feels pretty restricting only being able to move a fleet once per turn, especially when you control a lot of ♥♥♥♥ & are under attack on multiple fronts - late game is too easy. once you are capable of defeating a large fleet with little to no losses, all of your battles will be one-sided beatdowns until you end the run - the game deals psychological damage to impatient players by forcing you to wait for certain animations to finish before you can make your next move, and forcing you to wait for enemies to complete their turns, with no option to speed these up (besides one setting that makes smaller ships sometimes move instantly)

Really nice game and nice mechanic. The only thing I wish for it being a lot bigger. After 60-70 game hours you have done it all, so if they ever release a real sandbox version (with the same mechanic) with more races, techs and galaxy sizes, I will buy it right away.

It's a fun, relatively straightforward game with nice graphics and a reasonably flat learning curve. The only problem I've had with it is bugs in the Unity engine that crash the program in mid-fight sometimes. About one in every 4-5 fights, but I'm not sure if they're game bugs or all the other s**t I have running at the same time (it's an RTX1060, so graphics power isn't an issue for the game alone). Either way, they're not common enough to be more than a mild annoyance.

The game is ok. There should be a DLC with faction where i can customize my ships. It doesnt need any additional content just the possibility to pick ships from available factions that i bought, and ability to chose what weapons they have.

This is one of those games that Steam needs a middle review option for; The “meh” score. FT is polished and looks nice but the mechanics are so basic that calling it a 4x-lite is a huge understatement. The battle part of the game is also pretty simple a repetitive. I was thinking about getting the DLC but I don’t even have in me to finish a game...it’s too dull. For a younger person just getting into 4x this is a good option.

Quick fun strategy space fleet wargame, enjoy

Franchement pas terrible, je regrette mon achat