It's okay. Not great. Horribly balanced. Late game combat is ridiculous. Religious is jank. The game length is way too short. Balance is set for min-max gameplay instead of for people to simply "play and adapt".

Honestly, Endless Legends is a VASTLY superior game in almost every way.

I want Endless Legends 2 already. :(

Dayvit78 wrote:

As others have said, there's really only one strategy to win, BUT YOU DON"T HAVE TO DO THAT. Play how you want. If you focus on science early, you'll be nerfed. Who cares? You can still do it. You don't always have to min-max everything. It's a single player game, there's no monetary rewards. So the only benefit to playing is to have fun.

The problem is, with how short the game length is (even on Endless) unless you're min-maxing, you're unlikely to be able to achieve most things. You can "win" but you likely won't win organically by simply having fun playing and adapting. And that's the problem.

The game should be balanced so that it's winnable (as long as you're playing smart, based on the difficulty) with any play style. But right now it's balanced to be won a certain way, and everything else is just hoping you get lucky while you have fun.

Just wanna echo some of the other sentiments here.

The game is okay. Hopefully it will get better. Might be a good $70 CAD game in about 2 years.

My favourite part about the game is the UI. Much better than Civ VI but not as good as Civ V imo. Wish menus that I minimized in the production menu would just stay minimized. 

USSER wrote:

The game is okay. Hopefully it will get better. Might be a good $70 CAD game in about 2 years.

Well, the opposite might be happening, after the Autumm sale boost that rocketed the recent reviews to 77%, the game has been falling in recent ratings quite fast this week, and is now 57% last I checked, threatening to go below Humankinds lowest recent review positivity of 55%, it does not bode well for Humankind to go from 77% recent review rating down to almost record low in a single week.

I play this game almost daily with my brother, when there is a bug the load button is almost automatically. Unlike civ when a game crashed it would take an eternity to set up again. I'm pretty much waiting for expansions or updates that add more depth. Happy to pay extra for something that is so beautiful and has a lot of potential.

It's amazing how samey the game plays out, even with 60 cultures to choose.

dustwhit wrote:

It's amazing how samey the game plays out, even with 60 cultures to choose.

It's because ultimately, the cultures do not matter, they are completely irrelevant. The game shoehorns you down a certain path, and the culture benefits gives you a little nudge this way or that.