Recent reviews by A Clockwork Bear

Accurate recreation of the tabletop version and the multiplayer implementation is adequate. There's a are occasional crashes or visual bugs that are annoying and it seems like little is being done to remediate them, but the ability to get in a campaign of Gloomhaven with friends no matter where we are in the world is worth dealing with the imperfections. I have been having a lot of fun with this one, so if you like the tabletop version, I imagine you'll like this one too.

So far, it's everything I expected. It's Civ5 but wait, here's the catch… it's in space.

Barbarians are now aliens, city-states are now stations, money is now "energy" and culture is now "virtue". This blatant renaming and reuse of mechanics doesn't really detract from the game though. I've paid more money than this to see some crap genre recycled into a weak storyline that just happened to have exploding bug aliens tacked on to it before, so I can say I'm quite pleased that it's just what I was hoping for: the gameplay of Civ5, but with aliens tacked on. It's nice when I see this happens to games that I like and the end result is still a game that I like.

There's a few new mechanics: miasma, orbital units, "quests" etc., but if you're already a seasoned Civ player, you'll be comfortable with these instantly.

All in all, if you feel like Civ5 was worth your money and you like Sci-fi, you'll probably be please with this one too.

Few games keep me coming back so often, as it's easy to hop on and play this game for 15 and come back hours later. Terribly addictive, and a bargain.