I am having quite some fun with Planetfall and I am not even a big 4x gamer, mostly rpg, tbs and fps, I think that speaks for the game's qualities. I think the setting, art style, music and character designs are well done and compared to many modern games finally very "gamey" again, means we have a colourful and unrealistic setting with dinosaurs with lasers instead of bleak grey environments with current or past gen weaponry and technology, proper sci-fi so to say. My problem as a non 4x veteran is the UI which feels cluttered and unnecessarily complicated, but then, other 4x are like this too or worse. Diplomacy is a bit flawed as well, the A.I changes its opinion on the fly and it might be possible to be attacked right after signing a peace treaty. And again, I read that many strategy games struggle with the diplomacy part. The AoW series caught my interest because of the mix between 4x and turn based strategy. I love the old and new Xcom series and tbs in general, so battles in this game are great fun to me. It works almost exactly like it does in X-com which helps players who have played this type of strategy games. I would say the game is well worth checking out. Give it a try even if you are not a 4X gamer, it is not as dry as Crusader Kings or other Paradox products. Oh, the store page did not list it but the game supports gamepads. No achievements on GOG though.
