Civ Beyond Earth tried and failed to be a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Meanwhile, these guys came along and made one as a side effect of their real goal of remaking Gladius minus the Warhammer 40k.

10 days after the release and I have 90 hours in this game. Send help.

This is a very good turn based strategy game. I'd say it's more for people that like xcom games than for people that like civillisation games. The depth and flexibility of a civ game is sacrificed in favour of combat oriented gameplay.

The setting is very cool. The roleplaying missions are a nice addittion that add funcionality and flavour.

The AI is in some regards very good, but in others bad. Is´t's good at focusing and eliminating units but the overal positioning of troops is not great.

I love the customization options of scenarios this game comes with.

I hope this game succeedes and develops further. For all my love to 40K I could not stick with gladius. The gameplay was too shallow and complete extermination as the only victory condition is just boring (although lore accurate).

Zephon is for me a clear improvement over gladius in many aspects.

Warhammer Gladius was one of my most played games. This builds on everything that was great from Gladius and introduces some great new mechanisms. Hope there is a lot of DLC to follow, I think I will be playing this for years.