This game is definitely as difficult as everyone says it is, in that you will need to strategize carefully to mitigate the randomness of the dice and events and juggle your resources. However, once you get past the difficulty cliff (which your astronauts will be thrown over many times), you can learn how to better gauge probabilities, which events to solve and which to leave alone for now, and how to best use what you have available. Eventually you'll start winning more consistently, particularly once you get to unlock some of the advanced (and more useful) crew members. My main complaint is that for a game you'll have to replay multiple times, it doesn't offer enough options to fast-forward past certain parts. New games tend to be a bit slow to load (you can skip the opening cutscene but it takes a bit to get there), and when you know you're doomed the final parade of resolving events before destruction can feel interminable (though at least another press of the space bar will speed up the actual explosion at the end). I feel like speeding up the beginning and having a fast-forward button for the event resolution (or even better, an "I know I lost just tally my score already" Abort Button) would be a big help here. Secondary complaint is that the cutscenes don't have the audio and video synced that well. Often the audio will have already finished while the video is still going. Tertiary complaint is that a way to save your favorite crew composition would be very nice, versus it always defaulting to the starting roster. All in all, though, I rather enjoyed taking a chance on this game, particularly since I like Elder Sign: Omens which this has a similar vibe to (game with horror themes, dice, and ways to work around/with the dice).
