The game is advertised as "story generator. Well, let me spoil the story for you: "rocks fall, everyone dies."

The game is built around forcing player to take losses and eventually lose regardless of the skill. There is just too many ways storyteller can screw you without a way to be prepared. You live in open space? Get ready for raid that would oneshot your walls and go right through any defences, because they are useless. Or for raid that would just fall on your heads. And it would outnumber your colonists 10-20 to one. You are smart and dig under mountain? Well, we have insectoids digging from underground that are functionally the same, and mood penalty on top of that. You rely on turrets? Well, you shouldn't, because they are trash anyway, but get raid and solar flare (disabling all electrical devices for a day) at the same time. And this can go on and on.

I can only recommend it if you are willing to mod every aspect of it until it is fun to play (this takes modlist 200-300 long). And probably learn things about modding yourself.

The game is advertised as "story generator. Well, let me spoil the story for you: "rocks fall, everyone dies." The game is built around forcing player to take losses and eventually lose regardless of the skill. There is just too many ways storyteller can screw you without a way to be prepared. You live in open space? Get ready for raid that would oneshot your walls and go right through any defences, because they are useless. Or for raid that would just fall on your heads. And it would outnumber your colonists 10-20 to one. You are smart and dig under mountain? Well, we have insectoids digging from underground that are functionally the same, and mood penalty on top of that. You rely on turrets? Well, you shouldn't, because they are trash anyway, but get raid and solar flare (disabling all electrical devices for a day) at the same time. And this can go on and on. I can only recommend it if you are willing to mod every aspect of it until it is fun to play (this takes modlist 200-300 long). And probably learn things about modding yourself.