Plays a lot like the Civilization games and as Alpha Centauri is one of my all-time favourites I liked this as well. All the main 4x elements work really well and building up an empire is very fun and involving. This game has an average play time of 90+ hours on GoG, which is among the highest I've seen. In saying that there are issues: -The DLC issue. Impossible to defend really. elements that should be absolute base game things are added in expenseive DLCs, which is ridiculous. Certainly wouldn't buy full price -The tutorial is abysmal. You will spend your first game wondering what the heck is going on. I suggest literally just using the first-play through as a way of trying everything, then quitting and playing from teh start proper -The UI is kind of crap. Tabs everywhere and a lot of them are not intuitive at all. Took me about 30 hours to realise the artefacts tab is a sub-tab of the civics tab... because that's obvious. Actions that should be simple are hard to actually work out I think once you've played for a while and have actually mastered it, it is a super game. I understand a fair amount of people won't get that far
I don't generally write reviews but I was surprised by the number of negative ones on here (as opposed to Steam where it has something like a 97% overwhemingly favorable rating). Negative reviews seem to be: i) one star, it doesn't run. Don't know what I to say to that, it works fine for me. Possibly a problem with earlier more buggy versions (pre 2.0) or having a cack computer ii) I keep losing. Well, I'm no genius but I got to act three on my second go. I think if you rush this game and just spam out all your cards with no method you probably will lose a lot. You have to play with a bit of strategy Anyway, it's a great game; simple yet with a lot of depths. Random aspects, different characters and huge choice of cards give it tonnes of replayability value. Easy to pick up, hard to put down.
