The game does not vibe with me. First of all, I quickly realized the utopian post-modern blobitecture isn't my cup of tea. My main issue is readability. If you look at a farm in AoE (as an example) you know it's a farm immidiately. Aven does not communicate the function, which makes building things very confusing at times. I was also disappointed how how brainlessly generic the production chains and overall gameplay is. You build a wheat farm and a grain mill and you get food. You mine ore and you smelt it to get metal. This feels like a reskin of a medieval village building game, except grass is purple now. If you've played any Anno type game, you have already played this game, only less shallow version of it. On a technical level it's perfectly adequate I suppose. Overall it feels like they tried to make a corporate promotional video a strategy game. If you are a human that consumes food and exchanges money for goods and services, it might be a game you can play.
I won't say much about typical jank like atrocious camera, erratic AI, random dificulty spikes etc. That's pretty much expected going in. But every fight has about 50% chance of total crash to desktop. Game randomly freezing is normal. Getting stuck on objects is normal. Tried installing Blue Sun, hoping it would fix anything. After what can I only describe as feeling like I was injecting my PC with computer version of HIV (with PC desperately fighing back), I was unable to get it to run. 1 star for guns and overall atmosphere.
