Thumbs down for poor support of the game: it wasn't launching on Windows 11 until given Administrator rights. And there's a Discussions post about tons of similar issues.

Other than that, as of now it's an ok Tier 2 game among space 4X. I suggest getting this only if you are a big fan of the genre and it's heavily discounted.

On a separate note, 'Star System Hacking' addition is silly, out of setting and totally not fun.

So if you've played Stellaris, this is basically a slightly better version of it. Both games are nearly identical in concept and have similar problems, both are also long and tedious and have steeeeep learning curves. This game's space battles are MUCH better imo, and so is their whole tutorial process (although omg I spent the first 30 min just reading it felt like). I want to love both games, but I just can't. They both require an insane amount of time investment before you can get anything out of them. You have to understand every one of their incredibly complex systems on a deep level before you can finally play it competently. It's just too much. Maybe after like 100 hrs of learning I could sit down and finally have fun, idk. Anyways, long story short, if you like Stellaris you'll definitely like this, but I wouldn't recommend it to just your average gamer looking for a fun space war game. I didn't try multiplayer, maybe that's a better experience if you've got some friends.

fundamentally bad on so many levels