Recent reviews by Fizshigit

First impression was bad. tutorial does a terrible job of explaining the controls even after hours of learning how to move ships around still had trouble trying to merge fleets and then you find out that most empires will want to expand aggressively in order to claim resources and stop other empires from cutting off their territory since you can't build up resource for your empire with out planets unless you shill out another 20 dollars for the dlc that allows you to build space station colonies. and regardless of what you chose your race to be you'll do the same thing as every other empire of pushing research to get a tech edge over opponents so they don't wipe you out. as for the base game is waiting on research that takes forever to do because your limited to 3 options from 3 tech trees to chose from tech trees which you can't preview to plan ahead (example building robots won't be seen as an option if at all for hundreds of in game years unless you choose the correct starting policies for your space race but you won't know what options to pick because the game does show the progress or tech tree unless you look it up in the wiki which could cause massive story spoilers and the stories being the few good things in this game) you want to unlock If you want to speed up research you grow a large population so you have more people working as scientists but now you have to deal with a lack of space to put that population forcing you to Colonise more worlds unless you buy utopia DLC for the space stations. If you don't buy the Dlc then you will have to deal with the frustration of being a pacifist who wants to increase their research speed and being unable to expand your living space for more scientists because all the space around you has been taken by xenophobic empires with stronger ships and more powerful technology then you. and that is just one example of a play style limited by tools that are gated off By DLCS

The game at it's heart is a management simulator for space colonies that is incredibly slow and repetitive no wonder why just about every AI is xenophobic and out to purge the galaxy for their own race to rule because it's easier then managing colonies overpopulation and resources. the space anomalies like the stupid space sperm that destroy your research vessels are the few interesting things to do in this game since they have actual story lines to follow and their not as repetitive as constantly expanding to build more bureaucrat worlds so you can maintain your protection fleet size without suffering large research penalties of all things to be an upkeep cost for ships. I won't spoil the space anomalies since their one of the few things that are good in this game even if the space sperm destroying your fleets is annoying. My final thoughts are for a game that wants me to pay 40 dollars to only then limit what I can do by locking important features behind dlcs that nearly cost as much as the game itself is not something I can recommend it is exploitative and leaves a sour first impression which is a games one shot to prove if it's worth further investment to me it is not.