Final Theory

Had a lot of fun with this one. Each faction fleet seems to have a gimmick that makes it very strong if played to advantage. For instance I only lost a handful of ships in my first grand master win using the Imperial fleet, and my Royal fleet games usually went without a ship loss until late game regardless of difficulty level.
It plays more like a board game since you only have one move a turn to base your strategy around. The other factions like you also get one move a turn, and the Empire gets 2-4 depending on difficulty level to move their doom fleets against your fledgling breakaway faction. Paying attention to combat movement is important to make sure your firing arcs line up correctly since most weapons can't fire 360 degrees, and some weapons even have minimum ranges where they can't fire point blank.
Great no pressure game that you can play while distracted by other things, watching TV, eating dinner, etc. since there is never any enemy movement during your turn. I can see myself going back to this game every once in a while in the years to come.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Game is not big. It took me 26 hours to get everything I could out of it.

I enjoyed the process, strategy is good, but be prepared, game without extra fleets become boring very quickly.

I advise to buy on sale with additional fleets.

Shame really, good potential. On the other hand I am happy to support small independent developer.

Good, pure turn-based fleet tactics 4x. All the mechanics are easy to learn, but allow for a lot of depth in fleet composition and upgrade choices. The super simple mechanics for shipyards and resource deposits create natural strategic territory that give you very strong reasons to fight over and plan your campaigns around.

A lot of thought was put into the design and balance of everything in the game.

It's what it says on the tin: A fun 4X-Lite. I just wish there were some additional options to mess around with, and for the love of all that is holy the ability to speed up combat and movement on the map. I promise I do not need to see the little animation of the ships moving or things going from one point to another on the map. I don't care what the AI is doing, we don't really interact with them much anyway. Please let me skip that. PLEASE.

aside from that it's really fun. Not super complex, but satisfying.

One of the best turn based tactical battle games I've seen. FT campaigns take awhile but since the overwhelming amount of time is spent fighting the battles that seems fine (at least to me). You don't seem to be able to save during battles so you need to be sure you will have time to finish before starting one. Game is slightly rogue like due to the fact that saving gives you only one save slot per campaign so no going back looking for a do over. I also like that.
The DLCs each provide you with one different fleet type in addition to the one that comes with the base game. Nice variety if you really enjoy the game. The game is otherwise fine with just the one type of fleet if you don't want to spend extra.
I got the game on sale. Something like $25.00 for the entire bundle. That's a lot for me (I usually spend under $5.00 per game - sometimes under $1.00) but seems to be well worth the price.

It's a fun, relatively straightforward game with nice graphics and a reasonably flat learning curve. The only problem I've had with it is bugs in the Unity engine that crash the program in mid-fight sometimes. About one in every 4-5 fights, but I'm not sure if they're game bugs or all the other s**t I have running at the same time (it's an RTX1060, so graphics power isn't an issue for the game alone). Either way, they're not common enough to be more than a mild annoyance.