The Last Federation

Part turn based shooter, part diplomacy, part spreadsheet. A fairly unique experience about being a space hydra trying to unite a galaxy. Weird, but it generates some good dynamic stories

This is a weird one, and it's weird in ways that make it hard to review. There's a little less agency over the events of the game than I usually like, but it *is* a game about being a behind-the-scenes influence peddler, so that's something I should have expected. It's a lot more text based then I feel like the advertisements made it seem, but that's not necessarily a bad thing if it's well written (I found it pretty flat). The turn-based bullet-heck space combat system was weird and felt a bit unpolished to me, but I also wouldn't mind playing a game where that mechanic featured more prominently than this game. The one thing that I think they did objectively poorly was in the way you interact with the various races. Why they all have their own individual governments and behind the scenes personalities, the options I had in how I interacted with them, and how they interacted with me felt pretty much the same between all of them. I would have appreciated a lot more flavor in that regard, but it's also possible that they get more distinct as the game progresses and I just didn't have the patience to get to that point. It was pretty slow, but also it's pretty complex, so it needed to be slow in the beginning to introduce all the mechanics and options. I didn't like it, but I really don't know if that means you won't.