The Few has a genuinely compelling core loop — juggling radar placement, AA guns, factory production, and squadron management while watching your budget drain is tense and satisfying in a way that kept me hooked through the first several in-game days. The tactical combat has its moments too, especially once you learn to abuse the pause button and manually hit the bail-out command before your pilots go down over the Channel. But the cracks show fast: you're capped at 8 planes per engagement no matter how many squadrons you've built up, which means watching 20+ German bombers and escorts pour in and feeling completely helpless against the numbers. After a few days the fights start blending together — same enemy compositions, same micro, same frantic clicking — and with the developers seemingly having gone quiet with no updates in years, there's little hope the rough edges will ever get smoothed out. At a few dollars on sale it's worth a curious afternoon if you're a Battle of Britain enthusiast, but the repetition and abandoned state make it hard to recommend at full price.