Hybrid of rougelike/base management which I found very fun to play. Colony management is fun and it isn't really hard to manage at all. The biggest challenge at first for me was managing food but after you get GreenHouse it is pretty easy from there.
Problem I have currently with the game is that it is lacking a challenge which is also when completed rewarding in a meaningful way.
Just upping up difficulty (increasing attack and hp of the enemy) in order to get +25% more rewards isn't really worth it. Standard is way too easy so you can up the difficulty by one pretty easily, but from there on, it simply isn't worth it to up the difficulty.
You will get plenty of resources from roguelike element and capturing and converting prisoners to your cause is going to give you sufficient manpower to mine resources very easily. I think the game is going to have problem with the endgame because currently, the only goal will be to conquer right up until the final boss, after they realease 4th system I'm not sure if they will be heading in the right direction.
Endgame should give you some goals to focus on and getting to those goals should be rewarding. Reward should then again help you to reach even higher goals. What those goals could be? Well, base defense part? We are building a state which is never really attacked... That isn't really fun, there should be some kind of threat against your base, raids, stealing your resources, something that can slow down expanding the base.
How about maintaining territory security? After you conquer for example 1st system, right now it stays conquered and you don't have to defend it at all. What if the systems are divided into territories and some of these territories could be attacked by enemy force ocassionaly, if you don't respond in time, there is a consquence, if you defend it, rewards from the battle should be sufficient enough to make you want to defend (purple recipes, opportunity to capture better quality soldiers etc.)
Now one other problem I have is with the Vehicles, Vechiles when you research them are actually completely irrelevant. There is no need to use them, there isn't any incentive to use them except for one mission where you have to shoot at the legs of a giant walking robot (which is just one battle). Vechiles should be more impactful and there should be a way to repair them (I haven't really found a way to do that). All three types of vehicles are well... they don't matter which is a bit sad. For a quick fix, I recommend that vehicle you deploy, should be piloted by a bot with ofcourse option for you to take the control. As for long term... I am honestly drawing a blank as I'm not sure how to utilize them, they are very slow and damage above standard difficulty isn't good at all.
I really hope that when it is fully released that it will have more content which could be both challenging and rewarding. It is currently worth it because you can sink alot of hours into it and have fun, but after you complete the third system, that is that, wait till another giant update or full release.
