For what it is, this is a decent little game. The combat has a surprising amount of nuance for the simplicity of the rules, and the visual effects, while being light enough for older systems, are nicely pretty.

The range of starting options also means that there's a lot of different approaches in the game, different starting conditions that you can control - as well as all the random variation that you can't control.

It's not a civ game, it's not MOO-like (or GalCiv-like, or SotS-like) - it's all about the adventure and tactical combat, with some light 4X-like elements to tie it all together.

And I'm having a lot of fun with it. There are some rough edges, like the lack of an 'exit game' control on the main menu, and no true-fullscreen (only fullscreen window, and that isn'r borderless), but then it's not a game to play for hours and hours on end, but 20-60 minutes here and there.

But I'm also going to have to go back to BE to get as much as I can out of it - some minor content elements are locked until you do something in BE to unlock them.

For what it is, this is a decent little game. The combat has a surprising amount of nuance for the simplicity of the rules, and the visual effects, while being light enough for older systems, are nicely pretty. The range of starting options also means that there's a lot of different approaches in the game, different starting conditions that you can control - as well as all the random variation that you can't control. It's not a civ game, it's not MOO-like (or GalCiv-like, or SotS-like) - it's all about the adventure and tactical combat, with some light 4X-like elements to tie it all together. And I'm having a lot of fun with it. There are some rough edges, like the lack of an 'exit game' control on the main menu, and no true-fullscreen (only fullscreen window, and that isn'r borderless), but then it's not a game to play for hours and hours on end, but 20-60 minutes here and there. But I'm also going to have to go back to BE to get as much as I can out of it - some minor content elements are locked until you do something in BE to unlock them.