if you are ok with:
-joining the dev's discord and asking questions to understand what is a very, very in-depth game + UI that isn't quite finished yet
-potentially losing your first campaign or two to learn more about how some of the mechanics work OR are ok spoiling yourself on youtube playthroughts to get a leg up on how said mechanics work, especially around ship to ship combat and how the aliens operate
-gameplay that can be a little repetitive but rewards long-term planning + short-term adaptation

yea terra invicta is pretty good. if you dont want to do 1 or 2, i dont think i'd recommend this game to you. 3 is harder to say.

i was willing to put up with all of that and terra invicta is definitely fun to play. i've seen some reviews about how the tech tree is bloated or whatever - its a good representation of how humanity progresses from really crappy drives to ones that can make the aliens wet themselves at the sight of. so long as you're ok consulting some form of a third party resource (subreddit, youtube, developer's discord) to kind of guide your playthrough, i think you'd enjoy the game. a lot of my frustrations were resolved after constantly consulting the discord - the one point that i won't fight the negative reviews on are the UI, and how much the game kinda hides from you. why does the game not tell you the difference between various types of PD between particle + laser? why does the game not do a great job explaining diplomatic cooldowns between nations in order to unify/federate them? the government score says it impacts many things, like unrest, cohesion, research, and others, but doesn't actually say in-game what the exact values it adds/subtracts to for those three things. you'd have to pull the terra invicta wiki to know exactly what - are you ok with that?

the devs are aware of these pain points and have shown that they can and will fix them in due time. as with any game but especially a game like terra invicta in which playthroughs can easily be 200+ hours, id highly recommend watching both the earth + space gameplay for like, at least a couple of minutes to see if you like it or not. this game is not everyone's cuppa, and that's ok! but if you want a really well-researched illuminati/politics simulator + space warfare simulator that doesn't make every ship look like a fanfiction writer's wet dream, this is probably the only game out there right now that mixes both the politics + warfare element to such a deep level in the space strategy genre.

if you are ok with: -joining the dev's discord and asking questions to understand what is a very, very in-depth game + UI that isn't quite finished yet -potentially losing your first campaign or two to learn more about how some of the mechanics work OR are ok spoiling yourself on youtube playthroughts to get a leg up on how said mechanics work, especially around ship to ship combat and how the aliens operate -gameplay that can be a little repetitive but rewards long-term planning + short-term adaptation yea terra invicta is pretty good. if you dont want to do 1 or 2, i dont think i'd recommend this game to you. 3 is harder to say. i was willing to put up with all of that and terra invicta is definitely fun to play. i've seen some reviews about how the tech tree is bloated or whatever - its a good representation of how humanity progresses from really crappy drives to ones that can make the aliens wet themselves at the sight of. so long as you're ok consulting some form of a third party resource (subreddit, youtube, developer's discord) to kind of guide your playthrough, i think you'd enjoy the game. a lot of my frustrations were resolved after constantly consulting the discord - the one point that i won't fight the negative reviews on are the UI, and how much the game kinda hides from you. why does the game not tell you the difference between various types of PD between particle + laser? why does the game not do a great job explaining diplomatic cooldowns between nations in order to unify/federate them? the government score says it impacts many things, like unrest, cohesion, research, and others, but doesn't actually say in-game what the exact values it adds/subtracts to for those three things. you'd have to pull the terra invicta wiki to know exactly what - are you ok with that? the devs are aware of these pain points and have shown that they can and will fix them in due time. as with any game but especially a game like terra invicta in which playthroughs can easily be 200+ hours, id highly recommend watching both the earth + space gameplay for like, at least a couple of minutes to see if you like it or not. this game is not everyone's cuppa, and that's ok! but if you want a really well-researched illuminati/politics simulator + space warfare simulator that doesn't make every ship look like a fanfiction writer's wet dream, this is probably the only game out there right now that mixes both the politics + warfare element to such a deep level in the space strategy genre.