Mini Gal4Xy

+Player choice -Barebones of a 4X -Clunky -Music is pretty unmusical -Somehow uninspiring; the first 20 round game did not leave me wanting for more. = Neutral review. It felt like a disappointment and since I wouldn't recommend such game for myself, I won't do it to you either.

Neat and fast paced game with no technical issues. But it's not a 4X. It's more of a sandbox puzzle where you try to get as high score as possible. It's also quite frustrating. Everything is against you, there are a few resources, everything takes a good deal of research and resources to pull off, action points are scarce, and there is a clock (turn limit) that ends your game just when it becomes good. Shame, it has so many nice ideas that I'd like to see in the classical 4X where you compete against AIs instead of the clock. The way resources and planet development works is brilliant, the randomized tech tree is actually great, race variety is brilliant. If only... The way it is, the game is forcing you to replay it in order to get good RNG rolls for 3 stars per race. Obviously mobile 1st interface is not helping. Buttons are comically large, mouse cursor even more so. There are no tooltips (you can't do that on mobile, LOL) and there are places that sorely need them. Tutorial could do a better job of explaining how to initiate combat, it left me with an impression that it happens automatically and the "vs" image in the middle is not looking like a clickable button.