Recent reviews by Athei

This game had so much potential, it's a shame the devs basically abandoned it.

I can even go so far as to say that the units and races are much more interesting compared to AoW4 (not like race means anything in AoW4...)

The biggest problem this game has is awful multiplayer experience (I say that but still play multiplayer) and some game-breaking bugs in the Galactic Empire mode.

Still, I recommend it.

This piece of ♥♥♥♥ game is now constantly crushing to desktop on battles!

Preordered the game, since I loved MoW:AS2 and expected something similar for full price.
After some time they decided to go free to play. We (preorders) got no preorder bonus, only the Basic game, as if we didn't support the game before anybody else did.
♥♥♥♥♥♥ move, but whatever. Bought deluxe and ultimate editions at a later date, expecting and hoping the devs would fix the game, campaign, dynamic campaign, etc.
What have we got? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game with broken promises, constant change of focus, broken, buggy, and unfinished campaign, same thing for the dynamic campaign, and after all that, abandoned the game...

Just play Gates of Hell, at least Barbedwire Studios seems like they know what they are doing...

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CTD after leveling up heroes/leaders is back, get your ♥♥♥♥ together CA!

This game should be right up my alley since I'm a grand strategy enjoyer and staring at maps and spreadsheets is nothing new to me.

But I can't recommend it for now.

- The game needs a proper tutorial and much better info in the game - I want to know what is required of my spaceships to fly, why tf is my space hub unpowered even though I have solar panels, what is federation and unification and why are my claims there but not really, etc

- I'm showered with useless info, and important stuff is hidden, visible for 3 seconds, or not present at all. Stop spamming me with useless popups, like tech that somehow became available to me via RNG, or just to inform me that I did a thing (I know I sent a spy to search for alien signs, give me more details about what he found, just telling me that he succeeded or not is useless to me), Inform me to say that rival spy entered my zone of influence so I can plan ahead, or that I have available target for unification, etc.

- Also too many popups - Interrupt my play (when I say play, I meant waiting for the next mission phase to start so I can actually play, this is like interrupting me after I click End Turn... ) to inform me that my rivals are sending probes to Mars so I step up my game, not to inform me that a useless tech became available for me to research (bulk that ♥♥♥♥ up so I'm presented with that info when I have to pick new research or something, I'm tired of dismissing it).

In short, it stopped being fun for me, and I'm sure it will start being fun at some point, or I would just constantly lag behind other factions because I didn't know that something was possible until I spotted some other faction did it first, because the game decided it's not important to teach or inform me how to do it.

I'll check this game again at a later date, and I hope that my review will change.

Great game, easily comprehensible, nice story. Bonus: if you'd like to learn rules of D'n'D 5e tabletop, here's a nice graphical representation of environment, encounters and spells.

Being a predominantly strategy (mostly grand strategy or turn based) games enjoyer, I'm usually not a fan of high adrenaline, reflex based games with a timer to booth. But... there is just something about this one, that continues to bring me back for more ass whooping (usually, I get my ass handed to me), and somehow it doesn't feel pointless, and I don't feel the urge to rage quit. Latent masochism, maybe?

But in all seriousness, after reading the reviews I expected it to be hard, and it was hard, so when I inevitably died, again and again (and some more), I didn't felt like a loser, and I tried to break my time, or stage, record until I got my fix or the RL called back.

The only thing that I would like to be different is that I feel like the timer should stop after I kill the last enemy of that stage, but maybe that is not the point and would make the game too easy(?)

Oh, and another thing! I really love it when I see smaller/cheaper games getting updates, to me that means that the devs really like what they are doing and will probably continue to invest time in it.

At the first snow, Jack "the Colonel" Davies, discharged general, and combat instructor, made a snowman.

At first, I was like - this isn't so bad, a little change of pace, but after suffering for most of my current playtime on a DLC that should have just been a bonus standalone campaign, totally optional, and definitely not a part of the main one, I cannot not recommend this enough...

Not quite there yet.

WTF pathfinding, bugs and hostile UI, greatly outweigh the charm and uniqueness the game has.

Will try again at the letter date, which is something I recommend others to do as well.