Not there yet, hopefully will get better in time. There are couple good reviews (https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/id/brizkt/recommended/2012190/ and https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/id/nikuta/recommended/2012190/ ) which summarize quite well the limitations of the game in it's current state. And good responses from the devs, kudos!

It's a mild recommendation from me. Not a polished product by any means, but I still clocked 60 hours on it, so it certainly managed to draw me in.

It's a city builder similar to others you've played. You place resource buildings, then manufacturing buildings, then luxury buildings, all the while growing and maintaining your population. Nothing new there, but it's well done, and the production chains are clear. The twist for this game is that as well as growing your population, your economy supports a military, and when you switch to a world map, you can send that military into action against other global city states, conquering the globe in the process. That concept is a good one, and it does present challenges, trying to maintain the production pyramid for your citizens while also diverting enough resources to build and upgrade your navies, armies and air forces.

Things could be done better:

It takes an age to build up military forces. Building a single battleship, even if you have all resources to hand, can take an hour of real life time. Deploying it and moving it is also an incredibly slow process.

The pathing of units in the open world is very basic. You might click the other side of the map to send your ship there, but if you don't watch it constantly, it may well decide that it can't reach your destination, because another player's ship (or one of your own) briefly occupied that destination, and so either stops, or decides to go on a wildly inefficient alternative route.

The combat itself is *extremely* basic. You'll quickly learnt here's no point building any ground units except artillery, and bombers trump everything else.

The AI does not appear to suffer from resource limitations. This appears to be the main way the game compensates for the poor quality of its decisions (a good example: in both games I played, the AI appeared completely incapable of conquering an island. If you base yourself in Australia, or take the whole of the Americas, the AI won't be troubling you any time soon).

My main beef, though, is that there's no way of levelling up buildings in any significant way. So the block of flats which fits 80 inhabitants at the beginning of the game remains your biggest unit of housing at the end. If you want to hit the largest city achievement of 50,000 residents, you're going to need to place 625 individual housing units. This also applies to production buildings. To suport that city, I think I ended up with somewhere near 50 bakeries, 50 clothing manufacturers, 20 sushi bars etc etc. You will end up, as I did, with over 1,000 individually built and sited buildings. That's a lot.

This last point becomes a massive ballache when you realise that the interface does not cater to finding individual buildings once you've put them down. So imagine you find you're not producing enough bread, considering how many bakeries you know you've built. You go to the buildings menu and scroll through it's horrible interface to discover that at some point you built 4 bakeries which you didn't fully upgrade, so they're producing only 50% of what they could. Even though you can see them on the building list, you can't open the building's individual menu from that list. What's more, the list gives you no clue, at all, where the inefficient bakeries are. Your only recourse is to manually find and click on every one of your 50 bakeries, all over the map, to find the 4 which you forgot to upgrade. That's some serious tedium.

If these flaws could be rectified, to make managing such an enormous number of buildings a bit easier, and to make the combat and conquest a bit more interesting, then I think we'd have a good game on our hands.