Solar Nations 2

This is an incredibly ambitious game. It plays like a mix of HOI4, Millennium Dawn, Vic 3, Civ, and Terra Invicta. The game is a bit rough around the edges, with some mechanics that aren't well integrated or are unbalanced, however I'm sure these aspects will be improved as development continues. Considering this is the work of a solo dev, I think the game is super impressive already. I would highly recommend picking it up, especially given how low-priced it is. I'm excited to see how the game develops!

beautiful work

Its got some rough edges but it is definitely worth the price if you like any grand strategy games.

This game has incredible potential depending on where the developer takes it. Much of that potential is already realized because the early access version is very playable. I'd like to see some simple user interface improvements, a glossary/dictionary of terms, and loads of random events to thwart the best of plans (because this is a game about planning). Also, native Mac support, please! (works fine on a Mac via Crossover, though)

Invest into this game, its got hella potential

While I had fun in my first playthrought, I can't sadly recommend the game in this current state. I hope we are in the first beta iterations for SN2 because it has a great potential and it will pain me to see the game released as such. Imo, the most infuriating elements are: - the UI and its responsiveness, sometimes echap will close a panel, sometimes not, upgrading infra in a colonized region is a chore, sometimes there is a confirm pop-up, sometimes not... - the AI, most of the countries just sit and do nothing all game. I'd rather see 50 active countries than 150 with 100 doing nothing - the lack of pop-up. Well, it's frustrating to discover too late that a huge war started or that a country colonized a region you wanted - performance, can the game use my RAM and CPU ? It feels like the game is currently only playable for 300 years before starting to slow down heavily. I have less performance troubles on VIC3 or EU5 Elements that need a polished version: - alignment, aside relationship is under-used - more events, more dynamic crises. The game feels empty currently. The polycrisis was a fun start and I had the hope there will be more in the future. I stand corrected Elements I totally disagree with, but it's mostly personal opinion: - culture assimilation and unity while being a cool concept on paper is relatively dumb ig. You have to either not conquer any other territory or playing like a genocidal maniac to unlock culture related technologies. There are only 2 slots for accepted culture with no progression ig - lack of customization. My all 5 playthroughs felt the same. No specific mechanic for alignment for instance kills the replayability. I understand I need to play modded scenarii but there are none to my taste currently - culture in general. I like the idea of culture split in space. But how can cultures on earth stay the same for 400 years ? Can we have dynamic culture spliting/fusing ? - culture traits. Was fun on the first 2 playthroughs. Under-used currently and culture power is mostly useless after 2200s - politic is really boring. No special laws, no incentive to change some laws I really hope some elements will be issued before the game leave early access. I will change my recommendation if so

map painting, in spaaace!!!

good game, but it's weird that it asks for super user on windows every time, like why would a game need that? very suspicious, though you can just deny access and it works, if your gpu is working too much there's a setting to lower rendering, very nice went from 76C to 66C