Recent reviews by Commoble

It's planescape but better

You have to spend money to get more cards. You can't get more cards unless you spend money. There's no progression. There's not even a daily reward system. The voice-acting sucks. This is the first legitimately bad game Valve made. Valve failed. We have all failed. Surf's down forever.

Between scouts not starting with the ability to move freely through rough terrain, rough terrain not enterable if you only have one move point left, and not being able to build roads wherever you want, my scouts are only moving like one tile per turn. What's the point? Might as well have a horse do their job.

Also the fog of war map, while a cool concept, is really visually indistinct. The unexplored parts are the same color as the explored-but-unseen parts and it's really irritating.

Workers can only build three things. Then you have to build another worker! Between this and the scouts, the early game is much slower than civ 4 and 5.


All that being said, as far as I can tell the developers appear to be listening to a few of the complaints (they eventually put the ability to name your cities back in, which wasn't in from the start for some reason), so it'll likely eventually be worth buying. Maybe wait until after the expansions are released.

it's okay