Very slow and boring

Good 4X.

Quests are a bit repetitive and some of them are impossible to achieve. AIs seem very incompetent at fleet management, but they also seem to get extra resources so it balances out.

There are animations for everything, which gives a polished look and provides immersion, but may be irritating for less patient players.

Space battles are animated in full 3D within which you can rather easily move the camera around. Mouse controls there could have been better, but good enough. There are decent solutions to many things that seem to be a problem at first.

On sale it's a pretty great deal due to the amount of DLCs.

The OST slaps