1) The game does a very poor job explaining how to actually play it. This leads to wasting a ton of time making mistakes that could have been easily avoided had the game either emphasized their importance (build tons of worker drones in a very specific pattern) or explained what you were supposed to do (keep an eye on O2, and don't let it get over 30% or things start catching fire and it's EXTREMELY difficult to get the O2 levels to go back down again). 2) The entire point of the game is to terraform Mars. Upon completing said objective I get a few lines of dialog from a character boiling down to 'good job, but this is just the beginning' (spoiler alert, it's not, that's the end of the game), and a dramatic pan around Mars showing that it is still red without any shred of green on it at all. 3) Most of the game feels like busy work. After a point I set the game to 16x speed, only slowing down for extremely tedious 'combat' segments where you can very easily get completely wrecked if you aren't paying attention because it takes forever for the combat drones to move around, so if you miss something say goodbye to several hours worth of gameplay repairing everything. This also led to the hilarious situation where the characters I'm interacting with should long since be dead due to old age. The most tedious part of the game is managing the food and water supply for the colonist, since the drones take their sweet time getting them food and water. I had thought when liquid water started appearing it would ease the burden a bit, but as many other reviewers point out, NOPE. They can't use the water or grow any food themselves. Overall, I honestly regret ever having played this game. The only positive thing I can say is that it is so mindless to play that it was nice to be able to just set it to 16x speed and watch my little drones go zooming all over the place while I kind of zone out.
