The only reason this game gets high ratings is because there aren't many others which are similar. Which by itself is a merit, of course, but this game is so flawed in so many ways it's difficult to enjoy. The UI, I'm sure, was created by some unknown race of aliens who have only heard about humans from an odd travel pamphlet. It's horrendous. It was genuinely easier to learn Dwarf Fortress in ASCII than to learn and play this game. The game comes with a huge manual that takes ages to read, which still fails to answer too many questions. That's how incoherently the core mechanics here are designed. And if this wasn't bad enough, the game also comes packaged with some questionable design decisions, such as delegating every other mechanic found in similar games (e.g. diplomacy) to this clunky system of randomly generated cards, which by itself would have been enjoyable if it wasn't trying to substitute core mechanics of the genre and doing so badly. Another example of bad design is how the game sometimes will ask you to make a choice - promise to increase this or do that, only to later reveal there was never any way to achieve this promise. I have carefully read everything about it I could find in the manual and reloaded many times just to make sure, and there sometimes just is absolutely zero way of fulfilling such a promise (e.g. increase one of the profiles). Overall, it will still be worth playing if you're starved for similar games, but it's definitely not as good as some people claim, I suspect out of sheer desperation for more similar games in the genre.
They didn't even bother to at least TRY to make it look slightly different from Opus Magnum. Wow.
Comically derivative and painfully boring. They took the worst parts of their good games and combined them??
The campaigns seem a little shallow and boring, especially the first one. You get your cringeworthy self-righteous protagonist, who never fails to self-engrandaise and mention multiple times how "strong" she is and so on. Every two steps you take on the map there's a bunch more painful dialogue to get through, she never just shuts up and lets you play the game. The game looks great, plays well so far but the starting units are so incredibly boring. Tutorial even tells you how many units can have abilities and to check them out, but you basically start with two types of basic ranged units and one basic melee unit with zero abilities. After some time you get a fourth, which gives a boring stat buff to friendlies and not much else. It gets better but why does this game even need to have so many boring units in one faction?
