This is a very underwhelming rts experience. The campaign is atrocious and has no balance. The research tree is a trap and if you do not know the best researches, you can lose an entire campaign. The game is so slow with no speed-up or mid-game save, when missions can take 3+ hrs. The hero missions are the worst gaming experience possibly, but you are forced to do them for the research. Every single mission plays out the exact same, its so boring and sooooo slow. My last game I played I finished the objectives halfway through the mission and had to sit and wait 1.5 hours for it to finish..... I will never touch this again. It's hardly a game when you do the exact same thing every game/mission.... push out to this area, build sawmills on these spots for best gains, put farms in these fields. You do not change anything between plays on maps and they are all so generic.

This game absolutely disrespects the players. There is hardly any tutorial. No guidance. The missions and campaign progression moves at a snails pace. A single zombie can ruin a 3 hr plus game and force you to replay it, exactly the same but save for that one zombie that snuck through somewhere. It is an atrociously bad experience.

I played From Glory to Goo just before this and it is a far superior gaming experience. It's a massively smaller scale of a game but its 10 fold better. Shorter missions with generated maps, commander abilties, ship abilities, good research, and a good earned progression system (unlike cheesing missions at 25% difficulty to scum research points in TaB).

Avoid this game unless you are a full blown masochist and have no respect for your own time.

Campaign really killed the game, this is the most boring mode I played in a game in awhile. They had a the golden goose with survival and messed it up. Recommend if you wanna play survival the campaign you need outside tools because its a slog..god the hero missions.
Game felt like a slap in the face after EA with the campaign and the other issues

Great concept ruined by a shocking number of inexplicably poor design decisions.

In no particular order:
-Building placement doesn't show you where you can place things, only whether your current spot is bad or not. Starcraft figured this out in 2010, there's no excuse in 2019+
-Resource buildings can't have any part of their collection circle overlap, which leads to the absurd minigame of trying to optimally place your resource buildings with no UI help. Again, Creeper World had this figured in the freaking Paleozoic, so no idea why it's hard here.
-A single zombie slipping through your defenses can snowball your entire base. Not an issue, except that there's NO QUICKSAVES, OR SAVE LOADING AT ALL.

For this and a number of other reasons, this game feels like some sort of unpolished Alpha project that somehow slipped through into general release. Which is a shame, because I'm usually a sucker for these kinds of games, and this would be exactly my thing if it didn't feel like such a slap-job.

5/10, would only recommend for the truly hardcore base-builder crowd.