Solar Nations 2

refunded this game. developer is a Nazi. do not give them your money

Weird economic rules stacked on top of weird ideological ideas stacked on top of jank dressed up as more flexible Terra Invicta. Not a serious game, right now. Drop the ideological weirdness, re-work stability as the primary factor in making _any_ changes in the economy/industry of your nation and then we might have something to cook with.

Has the political insight of prion disease, and worse mechanics.

actually gas game for $10 CAD. relatively feature dense, lots of customization, very stable (seen 1 crash in multiplayer), great multiplayer (no having to resync like a paradox game!) hard to say in a review what it is I like in specific, as this games detail dense enough to be hard to explain. only downside is the UI isnt the greatest, but its serviceable. gonna be getting quite a few more hours especially in multiplayer with a bunch of ppl. dev should charge more for this icl, feels like robbery

Its a fun space game where when you finally learn how to actually play it, it can be tones of fun running around colonising planets and on occasion causing multiplanetary conflicts because the Chines Union took some land that you REALLY WANTED. though not without its flaws I will dedicate the next half of this review to aspects I was either disappointed with or feel needs to be worked on in the future. some of this might be out dated since the game can change after all this is an early access game as of making this. the political aliments have a lot to be left wanted, a lot of the political systems in this game feels weirdly out of left field and not aligning at all. For example, there's an economic policy called "corporatism" that makes factory buildings work 20% better, now with a name like this you'd think this would be a corporate leaning stance right? wrong! its religion dummy. why dose this affect the religion alignment? idk it just dose :3. its just silly to me. another issue I have is that a lot of the alignments and policies have upsides and + affects but not many downsides to them, I can only think of 2 policies that actually have some kind of negative and its never anything big either (normally just like a -5 to something) and there's also no penalty's and such to wildly changing government types in this game. basically there's very few downsides to changing ideology and many of the ideology changes don't really have major downsides that can actually affect gameplay in a meaningful way. There's a mechanic for culture that feels really one sided most of the time since it feels very... under cooked for what you can do with it? ie, its better to just play with 1 culture and just close your borders and convert everyone else who isn't your people. idk if its just me but I'd like to see some way to benefit by letting you upgrading an ideology that isn't your main one and sort of juggle them around, like maybe I want to make a colony using x people instead of y because I invested in y people for 1 benefit that would really work in that spot. also I feel it would really help if there was a way to increase the culture power to make it work. Think about it, you get 2 options, option 1 is to invest into just 1 culture at the cost of earning less culture power over all since you only invested into the 1 culture, and option 2 invest into multiple cultures with multiple benefits that you can try and control the immigration of to benefit you either in making colony's or by adding some kind of incentive to go somewhere, and of course add a way to increase the culture power you gain to help with all the new opportunity's you might have by going multicultural. Also, it feels like the "accepted, promoted, non accepted and oppressed culture options don't add much affects/different options to really feel like there worth using since a lot of the time you can just set all cultures outside of accepted to non by default and just have it set to some of the more extreme options since for some reason you can just use them in what's basically the "neutral" option for culture management. You have NO CLUE as to what's happening where and why, you can be looking at one of your colony's for a good 20 minutes not looking at earth and return back to your home on earth and- good god since when did Lithuania own the entirety of Russia??? (taken from real experience while playing lol) put simply, there needs to be a news broadcasted or something somewhere that can at least mention when a country is at war with another or if someone's trying to colonise something so you know what the ♥♥♥♥ is happening where. over all, those are my biggest issues with the game, other than that and some badly worded ui elements (good GOD this guy needs to make the ui better sooner rather than later ;-; ) ,I really like this game and I would love too see how development go's on for it since I really like what's already here

Game is fun and the dev path is promising. Unique blend of paradox style games. Will be following this. Ignore the redditors complaining in other reviews.

"oh golly gosh, i sure do hope this game doesn't come prepackaged with racism, cultural supremacy, and conspiracy theories!" the devious alt-right developer: I played for 8 hours so idk why it says fourteen minutes. Maybe because it was on another device? Anyways i cant refund 😔

game is a decent time-killer if a bit thrown together with various features from map-painting games from different companies. game dev clearly has a far-right bias with his description of various ideologies and different types of political options that are blatantly incorrect or misunderstood.,