Lots of people are panning this game for failing to live up to their desires of an epic level strategy 4X game. Lots of people are forgetting that this game is $15 base and even less on sales and never advertised itself as an epic level 4X strategy game.

This game is exactly what it's advertised and priced as: a space ADVENTURE game where you command a small fleet in exploring the frontier, putting down pirates, engaging in tense standoffs or small scale battles with the other players, establishing trade aggreements, and bringing planets into your Federation/Empire/whatever, all through episodic missions with light storytelling. Think Star Trek Next Gen with an emphasis on combat.

If you're cool with that, great! Get this game! It's fun and worth your bit of money. And if you want a more vast, epic, and detailed game, please, PLEASE, don't buy this $15 game and then come back to leave scathing, raging reviews because it wasn't the $60 game you were looking for.

Lots of people are panning this game for failing to live up to their desires of an epic level strategy 4X game. Lots of people are forgetting that this game is $15 base and even less on sales and never advertised itself as an epic level 4X strategy game. This game is exactly what it's advertised and priced as: a space ADVENTURE game where you command a small fleet in exploring the frontier, putting down pirates, engaging in tense standoffs or small scale battles with the other players, establishing trade aggreements, and bringing planets into your Federation/Empire/whatever, all through episodic missions with light storytelling. Think Star Trek Next Gen with an emphasis on combat. If you're cool with that, great! Get this game! It's fun and worth your bit of money. And if you want a more vast, epic, and detailed game, please, PLEASE, don't buy this $15 game and then come back to leave scathing, raging reviews because it wasn't the $60 game you were looking for.