It's city building, with research and resource gathering. The game concept is interesting, but the actual game feels rushed out the door prematurely and a lot of useful stuff cut out in order to meet a deadline and sell the rest later as DLC. A real tutorial that outlines what you can do is sorely missing (the messages that pop up from time to time are no substitute), micromanagement is far too tedious sometimes, and the endgame is somewhat boring, as in, what shall I do now, now that I've researched everything and have a more or less working colony? I'm sure given that the publisher is Paradox, that a landslide of DLC is already being prepared, which, in 2-3 years time, will represent the game as designers originally intended it to be released now.
