Recent reviews by TheWrongCat

The sea battles are great. The campaign however contains far too many land battles for a game about the Age of Sail, and the mechanics are clunky compared to similar games such as Empire: Total War. Consequently I have found the campaign quite frustrating so far.

This game is like EVE Online but set in the age of sail. It does take a while to get going, and it will be a while before you can get anywhere near the largest and most impressive ships that this game has to offer. However, during that time you will gain valuable experience in a range of different ships and become a significantly better sailor and strategist as a result.

Trying to play this as a single player game will leave you frustrated and disappointed. That simply isn't how the game was designed. Find a group of people you can work with, or bring your friends in to play with you. Get in a fleet, sail around and have fun. The game is beautiful, immersive and realistic. Expect to have to work hard to progress, and expect the PVP to be unforgiving. You will lose your expensive ship if you are careless - but that risk brings an extra level of adrenaline to every battle. Having real consequences for losing makes each battle mean so much more.

I absolutely love this game, and have encouraged most of my friends to buy it as well. If you have any interest in this period of history whatsoever, you will not be disappointed.

I've spent so many hours on this game before it was brought to Steam. There's a tremendous sense of achievement when you look around and think to yourself "I made ALL of this. From scratch."

The gameplay is incredibly addictive. I spend hours running around, tweaking, removing inefficiencies, upgrading, finding some new hurdle to overcome.

The weekend after the Steam release I spent both days glued to my screen. This game comes highly recommended but does come with a slight warning that it is a huge time sink - you will need to employ a degree of self-discipline if you want to get anything productive done on the same day as you play Factorio.

TITANS adds a lot of flavour to Planetary Annihilation. In particular, it makes combat in the Orbital layer feel much more vibrant and the expanded unit roster opens up new strategies and makes army composition matter that much more.

The expansion's namesake units, the Titans, are fantastically designed. When I play with friends on Teamspeak, there are shouts and screams whenever one of them hits the battlefield, either of panic or of triumph. I'm a particularly big fan of the situations the Ragnarok planet-destroying building cause, because those turn into a frantic last stand as one team struggles for survival.

You will have hours of fun with this game, and Uber Entertainment are a fantastic team that continue to punch well above their weight in the RTS market. I'm sure they have plenty more in store for TITANS later on.