Overall, it's a great game for the niche that it's in. Note, some of the reviews on this game make no sense. Why?

1. This is not a simulator game. It simulates resource, time, and logistics/crew management, but it is not a simulator. No flying planes, no walking through the halls.
   
2. The combat is card based, similar to Endless Space, or any other card battler. You use your ship and fleet's abilities/skill to locate the enemy, hide yourself, and overall hedge your advantage so you can boost your card game for major airstrikes
   
3. The game is focused on the strategic gameplay. Folks call it "board game like." Well, it's a top-down strategic simulator, not an action shoot-em-up or AAA gunner FPS simulator.

See, this game is a niche game for people who like playing Gladiator Arena games (like Blackthorn Arena), card battlers, and for people who are generally interested in WWII historical combat. This game gets a surprising amount of the small details right in terms of atmospheric detail and accuracy. The plane and ship models are fairly low-poly, but you can tell it's a TBD Devastator and not some generic monoplane like similar games might do.

Where it tends to get sloppy is with the cinematic animations... very much like Endless Space. You send your planes to attack. You clearly are attacking a single aircraft carrier. The animation shows you bombing 3 aircraft carriers. Or, maybe you attacked a convoy and sunk 1, but the animation shows you missed all your shots. Those animations, while neat, aren't important and you can elect to accept the outcome of the battle, or watch the cinematic before you accept the popup.

It also falls down a bit on giving some important information. Things like overall picture of health on your CV. You can see the fires, the flooding, broken machinery. But, how much more can you take before you're tits up? No idea. I haven't been sunk yet and there's no health bar, doomsday timer to fix something before a magazine explodes, or anything like that.

Overall, I am very much enjoying the game. I like the process of searching the empty ocean for a hidden enemy. I like the process of attriting an enemy fleet of its support vessels to strike a killing blow against the CV that's been lobbing planes at me. I like the peaceful nighttime where planes can't be used to rest, repair, and replenish before the next day's big battles.

Overall, it's a very good game if you understand what this type of game is all about.