Dune: Spice Wars

Very meh. Nothing pulls you in to keep playing. Played 5 hours, put it down, nothing pulled me back in to pick it up again. Battles and allowed unit counts are really very small and limiting. All the perks and politics just weren't that interesting. Nowhere near as fun as the old Dune strategy game which I spent many hours playing.

It is overly complex and tedious to play. It is not playing it is working on a new job or project.

the AI cheats, knows exactly where you are, exactly how much you have and where, and even exactly what you voted for and how much you voted for it

Absolutely love this game, one of the few RTS games in the last few years that really recaptured what a good RTS should feel like. Very sad to hear it's considered feature complete with only one faction, it really is too bad, it's a lovely game with a TON of potential that feels like it's just scratching the surface. 10/10 -5 for lack of support

One of my favorite RTS games in quite a while. Strong recommend. - It's both true to the genre, but distinctive within the genre in a few ways that are refreshing. - It's very well balanced and has received many, many balance tweaks. It's second place to, say, Starcraft in this... but _barely_. That's very good. - It's well integrated with the lore. But it's not just fan service either: it's a good game with good gameplay. - It's pretty. It's polished. The UI is smooth. - There's multiple routes to victory and the whole gameplay arc is well-paced. The most unusual thing about it is that the pace of combat is relatively slow. (Mostly.) You're going to have units slugging it out for a good while in most battles. As a result, It's not nearly as much a micro-heavy game as most others in its genre. It's very much a game about *strategy* moreso than rapidfire, clicky tactics. To me, that intensifies my thumbs up quite a lot: I'd like to see more games exploring this direction. ...

Game could easily have been good, but is far too difficult to be enjoyable, even at easy difficulty. "Short" games stretch for hours with victory still being completely out of grasp, and the game becomes harder and harder, to the point it becomes a chore. There are very few ways to interact with your opponents, even attacking them is harshly discouraged by inflicting grueling penalties to the attacker. All you can do is trying to fulfill a far-fetched victory condition, hoping to do it faster than your opponents, with no real way to slow them down. My capital city is almost maxed out, my military is the strongest in the game, and yet I'm feeling powerless: what's the point? Moreover, an important part of the game seems to focus on controlling "special regions"; I was never able to find a single one: are they for real??? I couldn't find any cheat mode nor mods to alleviate the pain. Too bad, the game had all the elements to be quite good.

This is dumb, 1 hr to conquer 1 village at a time because of its require authority which takes forever to generate.

meh, i bought this casue i like dune and it was on sale. I didnt like that the game was more politics than conquering for me. I know thats what dune is about but i wanted to conquer the map and focus on that instead. Over all its a 6/10 game for me, not my cup of tea.

DSW is a nice concept, the tutorial teaches you how to play....and then you start the game and you have no clue how to play. The game is trying to do too many things at once: rts, xxx, politics simulator... but fails on all fronts. I do not consider myself to be a casual player, yet I couldn't grasp at what it is that i should do when i started playing. I am not saying that it is impossible to learn, but it seems like you have to learn first in order to play. If the devs introduced all the mechanics gradually through the campaign so that you can learn while playing, that would help a lot. Players don't want to do homework before playing the game, games should not feel like a chore.

This game is super meh. I've played a few 4X games in my time and enjoyed them but this game has one of the worst mid game of any of them. it lacks things to do other then wait and manage your resources. if your looking for something in the same vain but better check out Stellaris