100+ hours in... Just found out you can equip items on units, not just heroes. I’ve been fighting with unarmed peasants this whole time. Genius move. 10/10, would struggle again.

As much as I love Amplitude games, I think this one has the worst balancing of them all. You either curbstomp the AI or they curbstomp you - no inbetween. Basically the only two resources that matter are Industry and Science, and you're so reliant on lucky starts that you'll end up spending 90% of your playtime restarting over and over. If you want to get this game for the lore and stories, just read the wiki.

A struggle to get into the flow of this game and not much that feels intuitive. I think there is probably a good game and story telling to be enjioyed somewhere in there.

This is a 4x game which stands for eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate...EXTERMINATE, for which you use armies! Yet the unit gear design is beyond trash! You can't downgrade , you can't switch a unit from one design to an other , you can't have a low cost design which you can upgrade when needed to a different, specialised and stronger design AND STILL keep the cheap design. You might ask "why is that such a big problem?". This is a strategy game, right ?The point of it is to min-max for your right strategies...WELL, have fun doing that while your army is grinds away your pockets , cuz you will have to have armies no matter what! You can only upgrade , sell or kill off your unit... so what's the point then of building unit exp?! I didn't even get in to the DLC BS... And they are making a second game....

Combats so clunky and long that it will get you seething. Late game, they will take so long that you'll have time to cook as they resolve. It makes the game unplayable. I really tried to give this game a chance, but combats are an unavoidable part of it.

Der’s no Hotseat Mode, unfortunately.

Still amazing 11 years after the release

I bought EL and a whole bunoh of addons. I though i would give it another try but it is no longer available in my library on my M4 mac. What is going on ? Is this a 32-bit game ?

+ Deep gameplay + Rich, unique lore + Appealing visuals and brilliant music + Huge variety and replayability - Steep learning curve; the tutorial doesn’t do a good job explaining the basics. - UI takes time to get accustomed to

It's the best. I tried Endless Legends 2, but didn't really like it (who knows in the future). Instead I fell in love with this one all over again. My wife and I have been doing multi-player all week. This game really has a lot of the features you'd like to see and is still pretty simple to understand. It's a very pretty and enjoyable world. It has a wealth of lore and really sucks you into a fantasy world. It's like crack; we just don't seem to be able to put it down. Can highly recommend, especially in hard times.