The game has a horrid tutorial that is three times more wordy than it should and explains less than one-tenth of what it needs. Here are seven new races, here are three new weapons, and three power modes, and here is a senate... oh did you know that each planet has its own political system for you to study? Here's a list of two hundred technologies for you to read. Abysmal experience.

The combat could have been a nice tactical fighting game but the game is much more insistent on having you study its arcane lore and obtuse game mechanics than letting you actually play and familiarize yourself with any of them.

If I had fifty hours to sink into this game to actually understand what is going on, what the game wants me to do, and what the effects of my actions are, I might start having fun, but I'm not willing to bet my time on that.

Two hours in, the game just keeps getting worse and worse. And if the start of the game -the part which most people will play- is bad. If the developers can't be bothered to make it enjoyable. The odds of them being able to make the rest of it any better are miniscule, and I have no desire to get myself trapped in a sunk-cost fallacy.

Not recommended.