Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $7.99.
- Gameplay: 45 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Optimization: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 557 player reviews · updated 3 days ago
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Game does get a bit chuggy the longer you play, for obvious reasons but beyond that the gameplay is solid and still has a lot of replayability.
the gameplays pretty good, not writing much here as i put that all in my previous remarks, but while there is always some work that can be done around the edges, the core gameplay loop is there. which is worth a lot considering many other titles like this one fail to find their footing due to that. i would like to see more for the late-game though. as once you go extra-solar there isn't much to do at that point other than micro-colonizing the rest of the solar system, taking a sigh, and shutting down the game. i would like to see some more solar-systems and challenges in space. maybe a few dozen to a hundred systems away (far down the development line, could be fictional systems) there could be alien empire(s) that start similarly to you, in the background (lacking visuals of course) that once you get warp technology and go far out enough could become visible. though that would require major optimization and probably be a nightmare to add. just a thought though. and maybe add the ability to remove nuclear fallout/radiation with enough time and effort. maybe a megaproject?
This is what I mean by optimization, but I'm sure it will be fixed.
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Currently $7.99 (−20%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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