I bought the early access to this game on Steam last weekend and its brilliant! The gameplay can get sort of repetitive OFC, but its addicitive as hell. Totally recommended. Unless you ofc played the shit out of Weird Worlds and Infinite Adventures, which i suppose are basically all the same as this, except this is 3Dish now. Still worth 10 EUROS i paid for it.

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One more thing to add, playing this i realized THIS is the way for the potential Sins 2, i mean the EXPLORATION part of the game. This is/was obviously sort of weakness of the current game, even though they tried to improve this with DLCs, clearly it was not good enough given the hardware limitations... Anyway, the exploration in Sea of Stars is lot of fun and if the StarClad somehow managed to "copy" it and stitch seamlessly to the primarily RTS gameplay element of Sins, it would be awesome IMHO.