This game makes other 4x games like Civ feel like a board game.

It's hard to overstate how good this game is. I'm a hardened grognard and have played hex & counter wargames for many years. This is the best hardpan computer strategy game available, especially in the hex & counter subgenre. It's really not even close to much else. Game Design Workshop perhaps? And compared to other types of strategy games, if you want to be completely engaged with a complex interwoven system, you can scratch that itch here. Hard to beat Paradox for that kind of stuff, but this one is at least part of the discussion.

I guess it's fine. Apparently almost 800 hours of fine. I think I'll start a new game. I haven't tried an Autocracy, Commerce, Heart run before. We'll see how that goes!