The Pair Annihilation

I'm 1 hour in. This game has a good basis, but it feels EA to me due to a bunch of rough edges so far. 1. No controller support. THAT IS BAD! Into The Breach, which is the cannonical example of this kind of game, has perfect controller support. ITB is often cited as one of the best games on the Steam Deck! You really need to fix this. At one point, i did something when playing on my touch pads that made the play field move around, and I couldn't find my way back to undo this. So I kept playing like that. 2. The UI is very generic and ugly. It's just a bunch of gray buttons with text on them. 3. Sometimes the game zooms in on characters for some dialogue, and the line thickness just blows up. This isn't good. 4. The writing is very bad, it's clearly done by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language. PLEASE hire an experienced, professional, English sci-fi writer and have them re-do ALL the text. A lot of it is just bad, some is very clunky, a bunch doesn't make any sense, a bunch more looks cringe or stupid. You really REALLY need to fix this. You could try and hire Chris Avellone - he did the writing for Into The Breach. 5. The music is amazing. Don't listen to anyone. It's just a bunch too loud when you start the game, and it could use to be enhanced with some calmer segments, because it's 100% tempo, 100% of the time. 6. The tutorial is kind of sticky, it keeps on asking you to do things for multiple rounds, which is annoying. 7. When targeting something, it's hard to figure out what tiles will or won't take damage. ITB fixes this by coloring the tiles red. 8. I don't understand at all what's going on when the enemy is making its moves, they move very quickly, nothing is explained. So, I can't learn what's going on. In ITB and some other tactics games, I can learn what's happening, by observing the enemy. This way, I can turn the game into a logics puzzle where I can actually make informed decisions about what's going to happen and that lets me get good at the game. If I can't learn that, the game just feels random and impossible to understand, which removes fun from a strategy game and turns it into frustration. The game systems are unique, not ripped off of ITB or another tactics game. Very interesting stuff. I think this game could truly be the best spiritual successor to ITB. However, the stuff I mention above just kind of really spoils the game. So, I want the developer to fix it. Therefore I am giving the game a negative review, because the game feels like it's not finished / not play tested enough. I am leaving the comments open. If the developer shows up and they say they would like to fix the issues above, I will change my review to positive. But first, I need to make sure the developer reads this review and takes this seriously, therefore at first I will give it a thumbs down. Thank you for making this game! I wish you the best of success, that's why you need to receive feedback on what to do to fix things.