Steam buyer, backer. Probably the best concept for a game in quite some time executed in the most boring, repetitive and confusing way. It's basically two games in one, you play a game of Risk on Earth with war, diplomacy and espionage, all with very simple mechanics, You use the countries' resources to fund your research and start your space program. In space, you capture mining locations to get resources in order to build bases and fleets to defend the solar system. Both layers are simple, repetitive and very easy to exploit. Both are full of bugs and require micromanaging. And you are forced to interact with both of them every turn because Terra Invicta is one of those games you win by getting minor advantages over hundreds of turns. Adding salt to injury the Risk game requires multiple, constant, repetitive and unskippable RNG rolls to get minor changes like gaining a 5% increase in popular opinion, so then you have a +1% chance in another RNG roll to make a control point vulnerable, so then you can take another RNG roll to see if you get actual control over just one of the multiple control points every country has... Space combat is repetitive, and the AI makes it trivial because it's incapable of managing fleets competently. Some story missions are tied to rare events and require difficult RNG rolls to advance. I could continue, but I think it's enough.
The first 10-15 missions are great, then the difficulty disappears and you realize every mission is, in essence, the same, including the bosses. First run, blind except for the in-game tutorial, I didn't lose a single character in the entire game and barely 3-4 troops (which don't really matter). I don't even know what kind of attacks a lot of enemies do because if you plan your characters development you will steamroll over them. Still, the atmosphere and art is great, lovely if you like 40k, the OST fits perfectly, and the first run is enjoyable. I wouldn't buy the Heretek expansion unless you really, really, really like the game though, very little content for the price.
Terribly unbalanced game where Rome will 9 out of 10 times stomp over all europe in less than 100 years, sustain 4 or 5 times more manpower than entire coalitions with no economic problem, etc. A waste of time to play any other faction than Rome unless you use every single exploit and meta strategy to survive. Also bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs.
The developers have officially abandoned the game and there's still in-game contracts that make you lose money, endless grinding, bugs, borderline unusable ui...
The year of our lord 2019 and game developers still think that making a game that requires endless save scumming and all kind of cheesy tactics and power gaming to advance is the way to go. On top of that moving around requires camping every few (real life) minutes to rest, but in order to camp you first have to hunt, then camp, then pray no one attacks you while resting and if they do, well just load your latest save, I haven't won a single camp attack, ever. A waste of time and money.
