A good enough digital implementation of what I must begrudgingly admit is a good board game.

I am one of the people who was under the misaprehension that this is an "engine-building" game in the same vein as games like Wingspan and Terraforming Mars. It does share some traits in common with those game: it is definitely a tableau-building game that is based on "systems mastery" and your fluency with the deck of 200+ unique cards. But it is not really an "engine-builder."

The insight that finally made the game "click" for me was that, counterintuitively, "it's a sprint, not a marathon." It is an *action efficiency* game. And, critically, it is a game that is often more about tempo and timing decisions that other players have influence over, rather than "value."

The fact that players determine the timing of the "breaks" that grant income make it deceptively interactive despite appearing to be a "multiplayer solitaire" game: it is a game, much like Race for the Galaxy, where you can't play optimally without paying attention to what your opponents are doing, and the AI opponents are *fairly* good at modeling what a reasonable human player would do in most situations to the point where just playing against bots is a decent enough experience.

Plays y much like the board game, just need the Marine worlds expansion to make it even better

Overall 5 out of 5, but I wish I could change the speed of Ai, way too slow for me.