Update: They fixed it (at least 90%, it's playable now) on May 12th. Gonna leave this here for time's sake.

Game is broken in the time I am writing this, has been since April 27 2021. Writing this review on May 3rd. I put off playing this game for 2 months in anticipation to have a great time with the new update being seriously excited for the new features. Instead they release an update and the day after a hotfix which ADDED a bug that corrupts save files. This ruined my first run, and the day after my second run was ground to a halt after the code broke for the mission tree I was trying to progress through. 23.2 hours wasted. Just glad my second run was ended short before I got far enough into the game to have my save file corrupted again. Might change this review when they fix the game, might not.

Update: Took till May 12th to get it into playable condition. Gonna leave this review here as a reminder to the launch.

Was playing a Ternate game after the save file from my first playthrough was reduced to atoms by the hotfix update. My next run that has been going here is now dead on arrival after re-rolling to get cloves on a spice island colony (by abandoning rather than the ever reliable ALT+F4). Apparently this re-roll managed to to break the code (guess it's made of glass) for the Ternate Focus tree. So thanks for the time waste paradox I'd like those 23.2 hours I played back.