Yeah the game officially is still in EA, but does that really matter? You can play it, it has mod support and a ton of features, where a lot can be customized. I love the game and enjoy playing it a lot. Compared to 3D versions like 7 days to die, this has not less features. In the contrary.
If anyone wants to buy the game, go for the basic version, which is cheap and nice. And as an atmospheric survival city builder I would recommend it. (If you get it for <15USD) While the basegame was of awesome quality for the price, the DLC feel like a cashgrab. They are more like additional scenarios as with 90s games, where you bought new maps for age of empires 1/2. NOT like the Diablo 2 add on "lord of destruction" which actually changed the whole game. Worse yet, the scenarios are >90% linear, means replayability is LOW. The ENDLESS mode has 3 scenarios and once you hit a sweet-spot of resources, tech and buldings all difficulty just vanishes. No more progress, nothing. And "ENDLESS" is kind of misleading as you have the same tech and building limits as in the base scenario, no additional tech, no additional buildings, no additional laws. NOTHING. Just the worldmap gets reset after each great storm. They could have added so much, made this game, this universe so big. But they have many projects and surely must spread their resources themselves. And like in their final DLC "The Rifts" the promise and the start were great, but the disappointment and rebellion had to follow.
I do not own the game myself. But though gog team says that offline issues are solved, you CAN NOT PLAY OFFLINE LAN. you need to connect to the triumph studio server with registration for matchmaking. I suggest this should be marked heavily on the game buy page to avoid bad reviews later because of this.
