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I can see where a certain kind of person gets a kick out of this. If you're an adrenaline junkie, or you enjoy cutting yourself, or if you torture animals for fun, this game is probably the best 20$ you can spend. But, as a video game in general, damn this is terrible. It's a F2P style grind fest. It plays like counter strike without the guns. Everything is a grief mechanic. I'm not sure it's even describable, really. It's the worst parts of Rust and DayZ distilled in to a monetized, whale hunting dumpster fire.

This is a dungeon crawler built on top of a card game. The dungeon crawl and the card game each would be fine by themselves. Combined, on the other hand, is a headache. The rationing from the card game makes the dungeon crawl tedious to the point of misery. And the resulting abomination of a rule set is just not worth learning.

It started feeling wrong during the tutorial. And it only got worse from there.

It's an utter disappointment. It's got the burdensome planet micromanagement from the second game. And the disappointing real time combat and the star lanes from the third. I suspect the user hostile menu design is homage to the first game but it may just be a ripoff of galciv. Either way, this is a model for bad 4X games.

It's worth noting the artwork and space opera were nicely done. Unfortunately, I won't be looking at, or listening to, it anymore.