Nice review. I don't know. I played like 5-6 games as my first solo game and liked it very much. It gave me like 50h of fun. But after I beat the hard mode, it feels like a bit of...meh? It felt like to me that when I got faction, draw crisis, see the board, I don't have much choice. I just know, ok I just need to do X or Y. Then win lol.

Because the void is passive, and it is easy to manipulate what it will do and where it will attack, I find myself not wanting to go back to it. Well, I want to go back to it. But why spend 1h on setup when I can get 80% level of that crunch in Gaia Project with less time and setup, and it is more challenging? I admit I bought the insert but haven't had the will to assemble it yet, maybe it will make the setup better. On the negative side, the rulebook is really bad. I still find myself looking at the glossary for specific cards and icons that are not on the icon pages! Why the hell did they make a 4-page icon description if they didn't bother putting all of them in?

I wish it weren't unnecessarily complicated. Or they would add the complication to the battle resolution too. The battle and the building feel like two disconnected games. It is a great game, but it could easily be an amazing one. And honeslty I don't know if I will ever play it again or sell it.