Offworld Trading Company

The most intense strategy game I've played. You see and follow the market demand while looking at your competitor, have different way of strategizing (there is 4 different type way of playing), and very different take than the usual fighting or war strategy game.. it focuses on making money then acquiring your competitor XD

Game's unique core concept and mechanics are actually very good and would have made for a nice 15-hour game. Unfortunately, devs bloated their relatively simple idea into 9 DLCs and 255 achievements (many of them grindy or about doing stupid things). The above may sound like weird criticism, but I have a bit of a completionist streak and my attempts of actually completing this game have been gruelling. It just became extremely boring after I got proper hang of all mechanics, but the devs just kept on piling their samey content on me. So, if you want to have a short, unique experience with it I suppose it's worth a recommendation. But if, like me, you are a something of a completionist and would buy it with the intention of doing all campaigns, scenarios, and achievements, I'd say stay away.

A lot more shallow than presented along with cheating AI. Not for me

this is my first game simulating a market economy. I do not know what other games in this genre exist but this is one hell of a fun experience. You and some competitors get to build a a business somewhere in the solar system (mars, io, ceres, europa). The map contains different primary resources (minerals, water etc.). You can use these, together with electricity to improve the capabilities of your business. Your colony will also consume all kind of resources to both sustain itself and grow. There is also a market for secondary goods (all sort of microchips, chemicals, etc, which consume primary resources). What the game really does well, is simulating well the supply and demand of all these resources and products. The better you are at your predictions, the more money you can make. Money does have uses however. You can buy stuff that you do not produce yourself, you can buy all sort of "services" on the black market to ruin your competitors business and you can also buy your competitors as well. It's amazing. Besides skirmish, there is also campaign with different upgrades carrying out between maps, which gives you an even better feeling of progress. Overall i enjoyed this game a lot if you are into playing the market thing. At its's core this a production, trading, sabotage and mergers & acquisitions game.

♥♥♥♥♥♥ game with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanics youll never win

good, not great

This game has a lot of niches, but it takes weird directions with all of them It's an RTS, but without combat. It's a base building game without many structures. It's a colony sim, where colonists don't really matter. It's a business sim where hostile takeovers is the goal. I guess if any of those things sounds good, then get this game, but if you're here for the normal feel of any of those genres stay FAAAR way. If I could refund this I would.