Recent reviews by MLXIX

Loading screen simulator
Market without proper UI that requires hundreds of hours of grinding only to have the right to buy the items you want
Then you can finally meet the final boss of this game: connection error

Bought this game on itch before coming to Steam.
It looked promising and had a lot of potential, but since Steam release development has slowed down considerably, and devs are not being transparent with their road map and plans.

Currently there are a lot of features missing and the rail and road building feels clunky at best.
Bridges are awkward and there are no road-rail crosses (which is one of the most requested features since Steam launch)
Train path-finding is not deterministic. Sometimes trains just decide to randomly go an adventure without any explanation.
Mashinky, OpenTTD, Factorio and Satifactory all have better train systems, and the last 2 games are not even focused on trains specifically.

I would advise anyone to wait until full release, as it is now, it's not much better than it was 1 year ago.
I am very big fan on transport game and especially train focused games, but I will have to give a negative review for the moment. The game even now is not ready for EA.

Update: Nothing changed. Devs still pushing out meaningless updates, while completely ignoring core features that they said they were working on for years.

Transformed one of my favorite factions, the necrons, into space trash cans.

Time gated content which you can play only once... in 2022
Trash

You can't customize the AI for whatever weird design choice...
In Endless Space 2 you could make custom factions for the AI.
Here, you can only make an AI persona for OTHERS to use. What's the point?
You can use only AI personas made by other players... And this only with linking an online account to their own service. This is very convoluted and unnecessary instead of just letting you create that persona offline and play with it in your own games.
Oh and did I mention you also have to do achievements in-game to unlock more traits to customize said persona?
This is unnecessary, useless and convoluted.

Add offline unrestricted persona creation for AI (probably not going to happen).

After 7 years of waiting game is on steam.
I start downloading the game, being happy that 1 more launcher is out of my PC.
Can't play with my old WG account...

Yep, they just put it on steam to milk even more money.

You would expect for a game with a demo version available in advance to perform better than the demo itself.
Unfortunately this is not true.
The demo was smooth and had no issues, while the released game has stutters, FPS drops, blurry graphics because of DLSS shenanigans and VSync issues. It is almost unplayable.

I bought the game based on my demo experience and I am surprised that they managed to botch the launch after having a demo version which worked fine.

From the demo and what I was able to play from the released version I really enjoy the gameplay and the mechanics and I hope they would fix the issues.

Edit: They somehow made things even worse...
Ignored all technical issues.
Focused on balancing instead, which means nerfing everything to the ground.
Made all hunts non-repeatable, which leaves with with only one type of activity for end-game content, expeditions, which are also horrible and nerfed further.

Another yet failed launch putting this title on the levels of Bethesda and Ubisoft launches.

This game is an example of a remaster done right.
It keeps everything from the original games, while adding remastered graphics and cutscenes in 4K, and high definition soundtracks as well as additional soundtracks.
The mission select feature allows you to replay any missions you want, as well as play alternative missions, without the headache of saving every time, before finishing the current mission.
The revived multiplayer allows you to either play quick 1v1 matches or lobby with your friends against AI or other players without needing to use VPN software or third party apps.

I initially gave it a negative review because of all the problems and issues regrading performance, lag, path finding and crashes. Most of them have been solved with consistent updates and hopefully they will iron out the remaining bugs, but it took a couple of months...

I liked the concept of this game very much. RTS combined with swarm tower defense, where every mistake you make costs you the entire mission, so you must plan ahead and use a tactical pause to queue orders. It's quite a challenge and that is what makes it most rewarding when completing the map.