Stellar Monarch 2 is a weird little thing. It's a 4x sort of but strips out most of the micromanagement. That is extraordinarily welcome to me, but it also sort of strips out too much. It feels too hands off. Too autopilot. You make too few decisions.
It'd be more engaging to me if there was just a little more directing of the set pieces. Some more mana buckets or meters to charge. It's too much just spam clicking next turn in between Audiences. Also Audiences tend to have too many events. Which makes the pacing a mess. The game is almost too fast with too little to do until turns where there's way too much to do and the game is too slow.
It's not all bad. It is kind of enjoyable. And it's a pretty drastically different take on the space 4x formula. At an impossibly light installed size of like 48 MBs it'll run on a twenty year old computer. It's worth your time if you like this genre. There's a chance it might just click the right way for you. The passive gameplay style might be your jam. The game is well put together and it works the way its supposed to. It's just not for me.
It'd be more engaging to me if there was just a little more directing of the set pieces. Some more mana buckets or meters to charge. It's too much just spam clicking next turn in between Audiences. Also Audiences tend to have too many events. Which makes the pacing a mess. The game is almost too fast with too little to do until turns where there's way too much to do and the game is too slow.
It's not all bad. It is kind of enjoyable. And it's a pretty drastically different take on the space 4x formula. At an impossibly light installed size of like 48 MBs it'll run on a twenty year old computer. It's worth your time if you like this genre. There's a chance it might just click the right way for you. The passive gameplay style might be your jam. The game is well put together and it works the way its supposed to. It's just not for me.