Having never played any war games I hesitated buying SE for months... until I did buy it the day of the Steam release. I prepared myself with Dastactics 20 tutorials videos, I’ve read a good part of the manual and I still felt loss and sometime frustrated during my first game. Indeed the game lacks some quality of life elements, some mechanics like the councils are a bit opaque and well the game is simply difficult but man oh man did the game grow on me!

It’s definitely one of my big gaming surprise of 2020! So many interesting mechanics like the logistic, the events, the character management, the profiles, the lore, and so on and so on!

so yeah! it worth the time investment and the patience!

If you love deep 4x game and are not too easily irritated by the lack of some needed QOL or turned off by terribles arts, do yourself a favour and get Shadow Empire!

EDIT: LOL I accidentally wrote Shadow Legends. They’ll have me with their damn marketing!