It's a great game, with good depth in all it's aspects, from Ship design, Planetary Development and governance, to resource management and fleet composition, diplomacy and more, it really has you working on balancing everything out to optimize your species and the solar systems you control, if you like strategy and management games in a sci-fi setting, this game might just be for you. I highly recommend it, and if you have some friends who have it or would be interested, be sure to get them together and try out the co-op and conquer the galaxy together, or back stab them to keep it all to your self ;)