I'm leaving positive as I hope it'll motivate devs to continue working on the game. So far I enjoy it, I really love the lore here, overall gameplay is fun and engaging.

BUT. Balancing is top tier awful. I'm not talking about the 1st mission like others, I'm talking about the whole rest of the game. How it works - most of the missions have a timer (it says 8 years and counting down). All the way through early and mid game it's all easy and dandy, but then 1 year remains and the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sector is like "aight hon, gotta go kill some imperials, brb" and you get wave after wave AFTER WAVE aFtEr wAvE of enemies. And the kicker is it's not so easy to prepare for it even if you know how this mechanic works.

Early game money is so hard to get and you need to colonize the f*ck out of the planets to get your population to 20k when you start getting around 1 money/sec. BUT then you also need to invest in logistic so all your stations and planets doesn't starve. And only then you can fully focus on military, forges etc. Dunno, maybe it's a skill issue on my part, but IMO we need balancing, trade guild should offer more ships or maybe we could get a special building to produce food in sectors, as food is probably the biggest cockblock after the money

To the above, and I hope dev sees it - the mission where you need to build trade guilds and colonize food planets, the objective is to build 8 trade guilds and colonize 5 planets? Something like this. But I needed 15 or so trade guilds just to stop getting starve messages on my other stations

But hey, overall I enjoy it, I'm unemployed now so I'm gonna play some more and I hope more updates show up quickly

Dev listened. Dev delivered. Game feels so much better and I hope to give a more comprehensive review later!

Old (negative) review: Needs some serious rebalancing. The AI just doomstacks tf out of you in the tutorial and you cant do anything about it.

***Updated***
Think the old game Majesty (from the 2000s), but in space. So build and then pay your guys to attack or defend. Different units have their own ai. Some will naturally explore while others tend to hang out in your space.

Since there is not much graphically going on, the game currently has NO graphic settings to adjust. not sure if it uses native resolution or just 1080 (which is minimum supposedly). So no choosing RT, DLSS/FSR, frame rate, or even window mode. Nothing, absolutely nothing.

High learning curve, so expect to get frustrated.