Recent reviews by Krid

Massive expanse vibes, indie gem for space fans!

Thumbs up for this underrated gem, all I want from an indie game!

Game mechanic similar to known concepts (deckbuilder) but used in a fresh way and very cleverly connected to the story. Story is told fast in small chunks but still a nice world building.

Only had time to write this due to the content update today, else I would have started the next settlement already.

Veni, vidi, ambulavi in lapis!

For Fans of the old Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space. Encountered some wonky balancing and the Mission Mini-game is debatable, especially as the auto-resolve is always way worse than playing yourself.
But overall the game is rather polished and I was totally in "just one more turn mode".
Recommended!

I played it far more than I thought I would. Actually looking forward to the expansions.

Totally recommended for fans of turn based tactics and/or battletech!

Can be played in short sessions but has a campaign that connects the missions quite nicely.

positively surprised me and played it far more than I expected to when I got it.

Minimalist puzzler dressed as an infrastructure sim. 10/10

Update 2: just when you thought it could not be worse, the devs removed ranked matchmaking (they call it mmr matchmaking). That is obviously not working, there is no even a resemblance of balance anymore.


Update after a longer break and several hours more: it is still a good game hampered by big problems, examples:
-Queue times are abysmal, especially for killer (obvious solutions via daily rituals are ignored) Matchmaking fairness is all over the place, it is not uncommon for lowest ranks being paired with the high ranks.
-Moris are still in the game, red and green ones greatly unbalancing matches, all balancing attempts are nullified by these.
-They disabled the disconnect penalties for several days, leading to very bad experiences (the devs did this because hackers exploited said penalties and they could not fix it otherwise)
-The event item was bugged for over a week, that item was basically identical to last years and it was still botched.
-Several problems when playing in groups, friends have to restart the game and join the group again because they are kicked out of it at the end of match.
I play it but that is basically only because there is no alternative to this game concept.


It pains me to write this negative review.
The core gameplay is surprisingly good. There are some issues here and there but nothing too serious.
Except one thing, since over a year there is a game breaking problem with progress loss. All progress is lost and you start new with a fresh save game.The developer knows about it but is unable or unwilling to fix. If you read this take it as a warning.
There is a pinned Forum post about it if you want to read more, just do not expect the developer to help you. Better save your files manually.