Recent reviews by Prodigle

The short of it is:
- The base game is very good compared to other Paradox titles at launch
- It doesn't really hold up to "finished" Paradox titles
- The mechanics range from "interesting to engage with" to "very tedious", and this seems to be front-loaded into the early years
- I'd put money on it being a 9/10 about a year from now
- At the moment it's a soft 6-7/10
- I haven't encountered many bugs, but the AI isn't very interesting to compete against right now

This has really good bones and foundation, but as is it stands now, there's too much of a reliance on meta-progression. The ways in which you choose to build your town up aren't too varied, and you'll likely end up going for very similar paths every run you do. Each run you'll get maybe 1-2 days further because of meta-progression, but you'll still end up doing all the tedious early-building run that you've done 30 times.

It's a bit scuffed around the edges but the core of this is pretty good

Really good tactical roguelike game. There isn't much besides the combat and unlocks, but there doesn't need to be. Enough variety of classes and relics here to add a lot of replay value

If you enjoy Noita's spell crafting system and roguelite games like Hades, this is the perfect combination of those two ideas. The spell system is genuinely open and anything you think you might be able to do, you can

Needs AI to pass or it's a dead game without enough players

One of the best action roguelikes right now

Probably the best tactics game to ever be released

The graphical optimisation is bad, accept you'll be playing it at 30fps with medium/low settings. HOWEVER, the actual gameplay is a decent step up from Cities 1. Issa good game

It's Stellaris with a few features changed to be more Star Trekky and a bunch of Stellaris features removed that aren't Star Trekky. Result is a game that feels smaller than Stellaris and like it's missing a bunch of systems it should have