Ground of Aces

Ground of Aces is a very good game and it is good to see my airfield work well with the great vareity of aircraft, only annpying when my hangar burns down.

gooood game

I'm giving this a tentative thumbs up for now. I like a lot of it, particularly the art, and generally like playing it. However, the fundamental gameplay loop needs work. I spend nearly all my time either waiting for construction, waiting for resources to be produced, or trying to figure out why I don't have any bricks. The actual planes and missions take up less than 20% of my time and attention, despite being the nominal focus of the game. It badly needs less focus on resources and construction (maybe we mostly get resources from HQ rather than producing them ourselves?) and more complex missions. I'd really like to see multi-step missions, or missions requiring more than one plane role, such as bombers needing escorts.

Had fun trying it out. Still a few bugs and missing features, but it has great potential to become a great game. I truly hope they add a little more history to the game, like historical pilots, events, and missions. Top that up with a squadron leaderboard with tracked missions, kills, etc., and I will love it.

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This is another in a long series of games that came into early acsess too early. an easy way to tell is that if you play the tutorial and follow it to the letter your base is at risk of dying before you finish. The premise is cool, but the game ultimately detracts from itself. By trying to make you gather reserouces while building an airbase and sending out sorties it ultimately creates three seperate games bolted onto each other, sorta like rimworld but with an airbase. The game would be so much cooler if it leaned into one aspect, for instance base building. If it was made so that supplies came in a steady stream and made it up to you how much to prioritize comfort, infrastructure, or operations through that stream and managing workers it would be great and feel realistic. But when the game depends on this incremental growth i am constantly reminded that this is not how an air wing actually worked, and i am also constantly reminded why through the game mechanics.