Critically Sane: "Spacecom surprised me. Space 4X games as a genre tend to be intimidating in complexity, to the extent that a certain other writer from this site tends to shut his brain off when I talk about them. Between research trees, planet types, dozens of buildings with varying effects, and statistics everywhere, neophytes have a tough time finding their way. And when I launched my alpha build of Spacecom, without much knowledge of what I was hopping into, those features are what I expected to see. What I found, instead, was a game that was much more minimalist a game about space conquest that, while not simplistic, was easy to understand and get into, and played very, very fast."
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Drydwen writes:
"Flow Combine has done a brilliant job with keeping the focus on the gameplay itself rather than the visuals. The game can be tricky if you have no prior knowledge of strategy games but the single player campaign will not punish you for it, thus allowing anyone to learn the ropes. With several game modes as your playground, there are quite a few hours that can be put in Spacecom."
