I bought this after looking at the great graphics & reading the positive reviews about gameplay. Other reviews talk about the poor AI; they don't make it nearly clear enough that the AI is actually non-existent. The colonists literally have to be instructed when to eat, sleep, bathe, talk to each other & draw their pay. Otherwise they just get miserable, their efficiency drops, they stop working & you start to fail missions - and have to restart them from the beginning. The actual colony-construction elements are fantastic, with great graphics, interesting missions, challenging gameplay & a well-structured learning curve. The problem is, you're so busy checking whether your colonist's hygiene ratings are dropping because they haven't bathed recently (so a new disease is about to break out) & mediating squabbles between them, that you don't have time to enjoy the aforementioned graphics, missions or gameplay. I got a dozen missions in then uninstalled it in frustration. I doubt I'll go back unless someone comes up with a patch that introduces actual colonist AI. Buy this if you're an obsessive micro-manager, control freak or want to indulge your tendencies to obsessive-compulsive disorder; otherwise, avoid.
