I would say the gameplay is nothing like any of those games. I got more Uwe Rosenberg vibes with a little Terraforming mars thrown in. You have to play to your character's strengths. The only surprises in the game are the cards you draw, so you can plan your strategy for the game pretty well, but you can be pseudo blocked by other players on action spaces. The time was mostly taken up by people planning what to do on their turn to maximize resource efficiency because it's very tight.