Original War

i started with the russian campaign and the tutorial took forever, then you get to the base building bit and the economy devoles into how many dudes can you spare to carry oil barrels, reasearch is this labour intensive grind where you insert dude/oil and wait, and the dudes carry oil so slowly, defensive buildings are comically tanky, and the game has broken cutscences where it trys to force your dudes to go back inside the tutorial area but it fails and they all die and then you need to reload the save this game is the most boring RTS i have ever played

The game was on big sale and I read the reviews praising the game as this great hidden gem. Then I fired up the game for couple of missions and I gotta say that I don't know if these reviews are talking about a different game, but this one isn't great. In fact it's quite horrible. The gameplay is just so clunky and annoying. Graphics are pretty weak. Voice acting is bad. The game has speed selection and normal speed is so slow, but when you speed up the game the combat is hard to micromanage. This game seems to be about keeping your people alive so that leads to annoying saving and loading again which is never fun in a rts game. Maybe there is a decent experience behind all this, but in rts the gameplay is the most important factor and in this one it isn't fun.