Recent reviews by thaelmann

Ea-Nasir has his own faction. I'm not sure about his buffs/debuffs, but something about copper. Well done.

truly great!

Amazing. A pure work of art, a roguelike citybuilder on a space station. With engines. :) The campaign is engrossing, pulling you in with every pip of resource that just melts away to keep your ship floating. It really gets the feeling of "last hope of humanity" across. :) I'd love infinite space-hopping as a sandbox addon, idk if the devs planned for such or some genius modder will come along...

It's fun, and has potential to be great.

Once you get the hang of it, it's ridiculous how many hours you can sink in this. Great mods!

It's a good expansion, adding new mechanics that I'm sure the modding community will continue to take full advantage of. The loyalty system is flawed in the current mechanic: you either have cities rebel next to immediately, or you manage to spare the defensive governor and some gold for purchasing infrastructure, or a cheap corps as Shaka.

It would be nice to see modders pick up here, adding beliefs, wonders and poilicies that add a loyalty growth or decline speed modifier to allied or enemy cities, rather than just add a flat modifier to the overall level.

The governos also need to be expanded upon: it would be nice to see researchable governors, more governor wonders and perhaps even ethnically diverse governors?

I wholeheartedly recommend this expansion, because I guess many mods will depend on it.

Full disclosure: I've been playing Civ since the literal dark ages. Still, the pain of a savegame corruption is the same. ;)

Stellaris deserves the hype it got. Currently the deepest and most varied 4x game out there, rewarding a wide variety of strategies.

A gem, polished with countless free content updates, expansions, special day heroes and whatnot. Buy, if at all able, and message me for a game. :)

P.S.: Endless Space 2 is coming out too sometime in the future.

This is hard to write, but as someone who plays 4x MP, this game is dead. As in, impossible to get a game together without IRL organisation.

If a miracle happens and an expansion fixes everything, maybe people will return... ahm... nah.

Hoping for the next Civ iteration.

Ahhhh... Civ V. How I love you. I know we haven't been together in a while, but you'll always have a place in my heart. On a hill, probably.