Probably the best grand strategy i've ever played. This game has some insane empire building, war, and political aspects allowing so much customization and replayability. This is the perfect game to jump into with a few buddies and play for hours and hours, discovering new systems, planets, and species. You can pretty much be or do anything you can think of in the galactic universe. If you're a Star Wars fan, you'll love some of the vibes the empires give off in this game as well. Weather being a necroid, a robot, a rock species, humanoid, etc, the universe is yours to explore and take! Initially intimidating and confusing until understood for new fans, but wholly worth it.

- still the best hundreds of hours later,,, though nowadays gestalt is extremely powerful compared to typical empires, the devs have lacked proper balancing to the recent meta surge.

Probably the best grand strategy i've ever played. This game has some insane empire building, war, and political aspects allowing so much customization and replayability. This is the perfect game to jump into with a few buddies and play for hours and hours, discovering new systems, planets, and species. You can pretty much be or do anything you can think of in the galactic universe. If you're a Star Wars fan, you'll love some of the vibes the empires give off in this game as well. Weather being a necroid, a robot, a rock species, humanoid, etc, the universe is yours to explore and take! Initially intimidating and confusing until understood for new fans, but wholly worth it. - still the best hundreds of hours later,,, though nowadays gestalt is extremely powerful compared to typical empires, the devs have lacked proper balancing to the recent meta surge.