Buy it if you like
- Gameplay: 65 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story and characters: 64 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
- Crashes: 51 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Multiplayer: 35 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 21 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 23k player reviews · updated
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Why players love itThings to know
33% of themes are praise17% are divided50% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
65 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The graphics, map, music, gameplay are probably the best in the gaming industry of our time.
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
64 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Fast timescale helps but pop growth even under that timescale still takes ages to increase, optimized research is still taking around 16-22 turns on average for reasons I will mention in a moment, moving around the map is taking forever and even ending turns is taking forever due to how hard performance drops at turn 70+.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
33 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The graphics, map, music, gameplay are probably the best in the gaming industry of our time.
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Fast timescale helps but pop growth even under that timescale still takes ages to increase, optimized research is still taking around 16-22 turns on average for reasons I will mention in a moment, moving around the map is taking forever and even ending turns is taking forever due to how hard performance drops at turn 70+.
Theme by theme
Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.
Players love
Gameplay65 reviews
Story and characters64 reviews
Graphics33 reviews
Optimization8 reviews
Divided opinion
Combat66% still recommend
Monetization51% still recommend
Players complain
Crashes22% still recommend
Multiplayer29% still recommend
Bugs33% still recommend
Difficulty83% still recommend
Servers and matchmaking31% still recommend
Performance25% still recommend
What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- Co-op
- Cross-Platform Multiplayer
- Multi-player
- Online Co-op
- Online PvP
- PvP
- Single-player
Controller
- Partial Controller Support
Store features
- Adjustable Difficulty
- Camera Comfort
- Chat Speech-to-text
- Chat Text-to-speech
- Custom Volume Controls
- Family Sharing
- Playable without Timed Input
- Remote Play Together
Platforms
- Windows
Valve device support
Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable
Should I buy it now?
Based on Steam price history.
Lowest ever recorded
$24.99$49.99−50%
That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
7 points recordedtoday · $24.99
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