Orbi Universo II

Fun mechanically, but built on the same misconceptions of ancient human societal development and organizational structures that all these kinds of games do. The idea that society develops on a linear path from less to more advanced; that these ancient cultures functioned the same as the modern invention of nation states; that social stratification, hierarchy, and state centralization are both inevitable, linear, and good; etc. For instance, I saw that public land can only be researched if there is a certain level of centralization, or if there is a dictatorship of the proletariat, and the land starts privatized or owned by elites by default. This is not the way things progressed; public land was the default well into the middle ages, even remaining in some form well into the rise of capitalism. This game isn't any worse than Civilization, in fact I think these kinds of mechanics are more in-depth, engaging, and thought out than the simplicity of Civ, but I've just had enough of this fairy tale of history to listen to it again, no matter how good the mechanics are.

just cant say its worth it

Good game but for some reason i couldn't get into it like some of the more complex geo political games such as Global Power and Superpower 2

Unable to move beyond size 30 government because "grip of religion" no explanation on how to remove it. When unlocking emancipation you can set the initial value to anything, if you set it to max the maintenance is over 100 political power per second (when your cap is close to that) basically destroying any you have until the very long time it takes to reduce the node to 0. No explanation why when I have a larger much more advanced army I'm taking massively more casualties than my opponents.

No complaints as of yet. First couple of games will be learning experience of what effects things have, after that conquer the world.

Clunky and laggy, past a certain point the game just cant handle the numbers anymore and crashes