I wanted a quality rts build and crunch and got a game that has a serious Identity crisis, is it a “rts build and crunch” or is it a “city builder” or is it a “story” game? For some reason they have managed to but all this into the same game, but it’s not good at any of this. This game is full of contradictory gameplay, on one side you try to efficiently build a powerful empire to crush your enemies, but you get side tracked by silly stories you have to spend time on when game keep running in the background. So, when my ships get crushed, I’m busy doing silly story things I can’t skip. Even in sandbox you have to do all this story things that is really bad made and make no sense. With all this sidetracking the game lose it purpose and it all feel meaningless, and you end up with a city builder with some npc’s and pirates that have no purpose. Only way to limit the really bad story elements and move away from a city builder is to not buy many dlc’s, and try to only buy dlc with little story and not much city builder elements.

I wanted a quality rts build and crunch and got a game that has a serious Identity crisis, is it a “rts build and crunch” or is it a “city builder” or is it a “story” game? For some reason they have managed to but all this into the same game, but it’s not good at any of this. This game is full of contradictory gameplay, on one side you try to efficiently build a powerful empire to crush your enemies, but you get side tracked by silly stories you have to spend time on when game keep running in the background. So, when my ships get crushed, I’m busy doing silly story things I can’t skip. Even in sandbox you have to do all this story things that is really bad made and make no sense. With all this sidetracking the game lose it purpose and it all feel meaningless, and you end up with a city builder with some npc’s and pirates that have no purpose. Only way to limit the really bad story elements and move away from a city builder is to not buy many dlc’s, and try to only buy dlc with little story and not much city builder elements.