Recent reviews by spkthed

Nifty set of tradeoffs vs. the base game. Super reasonable price given what went into it. Absolutely worth the cash.

Maybe the most perfect game of it's genre ever made. If you don't like the genre, you might like this game anyway. If you do, you will.

Easyish to pickup, enough depth to be interesting.

Game is super fun. There's a bit of a learning curve and honestly end-game's not THAT fun but you also don't need to do it at all.

It's *probably* not ready for you yet, unless you want to deal with balance issues but the DLC is shaping up to be absolutely perfection. Oxygen Not Included is maybe the GOAT. This DLC takes literally everything un-fun about the base game, and fixes it.

If you're on the fence - wait another 2 months at which point it'll be solid enough. It's great already though.

MOO is one of the games I grew up on. I'm a huge fan and was very excited for this game. MOO2 was a good step up, and MOO3 was another fun step up - when it worked. Pretty much everything in this game is a throwback - in a good way - of the original game. Music, resources, tech trees, etc. They then added on some voice acting and replaced animations with better ones. So - same game, minor changes right?

They have changed tech trees. At two hours in I'm not sure how I feel. Psilon was always my race and I liked that one of their perks is that they got everything. That's not so here. You do have to choose. Combat is fun. There's some reviews coming in talking about now liking the new version. Eh. It's not finished yet and they might make tweaks. It would be nice if there was a 'turn by turn only' option. It is nice that you can just skip combat now because previously it could take SO LONG.

So far, day 1 of early access I'm shocked at how stable the game is. They have done a good job. We'll have to see how replayability is, but so far very impressed.