Solar Wave

Why do your fleets not pick up heavy ships but all the tutorial enemy fleets have massive stacks of them?

The game has a genuinely nice concept, and I especially like the indirect control of your fleets. There is a lot of potential here. The graphics are fine overall, although some of the weapon effects are a bit too bright and flashy. Unfortunately, the game does a very poor job of explaining itself. The tutorial barely explains anything. While fleets and buildings have descriptions, the game often fails to explain what a building actually does or why you would want it. Even when it tells you what a building produces, you are often left wondering what that resource or product is actually used for. My biggest problem, however, is the constant and completely unnecessary time pressure from mission objectives. There are usually many systems I would love to explore and colonize, but there is hardly any opportunity to do so because you are constantly chasing mission objectives. Even keeping up with those objectives is difficult because enemies attack almost nonstop and become stronger over time, while your resources are steadily running out. So you have time pressure from mission objectives, increasingly powerful enemy attacks, and resources becoming scarcer at the same time. On top of that, buildings become more expensive as the game progresses. And then there is research. Research points are extracted from planets, which eventually destroys them. This means you are dependent on expansion if you want to keep researching. And that brings you straight back to the original problem: expansion is too expensive, there is too little time, there are too many enemies, and your resources disappear too quickly. There is not even a proper overview showing how many resources you currently have in storage, so you often have no idea which resource is going to run out next. Why does the game punish the player so heavily for wanting to actually explore, expand, experiment and play with its mechanics? There is a really promising game hidden underneath all of this, and I genuinely like the basic concept. But right now, the balancing and constant pressure work against everything that could make the game enjoyable. In its current state, I cannot recommend it.