Predestination

EDIT: After several more hours in the game, I can now add micromanagement hell to the list of woes. Min/maxing planets takes hours of playtime. The whole planets idea is nice enough, but did you have to make it so laborious? Devs, did you ever actually play your game? I have been a fan of 4X space games for over 20 years, and this is possibly the worst I have ever played. I'm very disappointed with this game. Clunky game mechanics and some of the worst art styling I have ever seen. In trying to do a different take on 4X games, the devs have failed to make a game you want to play. What's in the game works well enough, but it doesn't grab you. I purchased during early access, and waited for the game to mature on it's way to release. It's still in an immature state, post - release. The visual styling sums up the whole game nicely - Crude with delusions of quality.

So far, this game is actually really good. The colony side is fun, simple enough to be easy to learn, complex enough to have plenty of room for strategy and, hopefully they'll expand it even more. The space aspect is also pretty good in it's early state, but is a bit bare boned (which is to be expected) The only complaints I have is the technology screen, to me, it feel like it's restricted, and some of the technologies that you have to choose the one over the other seem to not be comparable trade off's. And of some of those technologies (the difference between solar/geothermal/wind and wave) are not explained well in terms of their bonuses and their negatives And my other complaint is the UI. There have been several points where I right click to cancel/back out of something and it brings up a radial menu. And the spatial map could need some improvment when it comes to ship movement and the general going into and out of the planet/orbit/space view. One thing that I'm hoping that they'll look into is ground combat. So far as I've seen they've mentioned nothing of the sort, but I would like to see them do something with it, maybe along the lines of loading up troopships with units and landing them on the planet to overwhelm the planet defenders, have orbital ships provide bombardment, and have certain spaceships be able to land and be naval ships

I'm terrible at leaving reviews but this game has captured me like no 4x since sid meiers civ. I've been playing this as it develops through alpha and it's been a great experience. Devs are active in updates and discussion boards, gameplay is unique, and most importantly it's just fun to play. Hell i could play a map without opponents and spend hours just exploring and developing my different stars/worlds/trade routes/cities. Don't get me wrong there's still work to be done and rough edges that need rounding but all the ideas are there and the implementation feels natural, like I'm actually running a growing galactic empire instead of playing a game on a screen.

I spent about 4 hours on this game at version 0.91. I am pretty excited now about the release version. My history is with MOOII, Space Empries, Civ Series, Gal Civ series, and so forth. This game has one really unique aspect that I have thought about "if I ever were to make my own game" in that it is two games in one. There is first a significant phase just on one planet, getting yourself to the starship phase. Only at that point does the second part of the game open up. I would be playing more of the game now, but it's difficult because a few parts of the release version are not in place yet, mainly fleet and planet organizers. Without those, it's hard to continue deep into the game. But my taste of this game has been very good. I probably say that in about 1 out of 10 games I taste. So I am anxiously awaiting game completion.

Imagine a world where Civilization and Master of Orion never existed. Where a developer set out to make the world's first 4x game with no preconceptions of how it should actually play. That's the good part of this game. It has a hundred unique mechanics that you won't find in other games. The downside is that most of the mechanics are stupid, poorly thought out, or just incredibly poorly balanced.

My tutorial never kicked back in. I went to play but without a full tutorial the game is almost impossible. I have played space empires, the masters of orion, stellaris, and other such games and never had difficulties learning the games. This game however is hard to follow. The tutorial needs to work right.

Released too soon. Crashes totally destroy hours of play.

Avoid- dead.