I would do that too if I liked the game more than I did, but I don't want to rebuy a game I thought was OK at best. I have rebought some games on GOG for the sake of supporting GOG and the developers, but those were games I enjoyed more than this one.

Thank you for reading my Review :-)

The delayed release on GOG was most likely due to GOG itself: even before launch I remember reading on the developer's forum page that both them and the publishers were pursuing GOG for a potential release. That's why I waited for some time before buying the game on Steam, as I was hoping for a soon-ish GOG release, ... which did not materialize.

The devs are actually quite active with their patches, the last one was in 23 June 2017. Historically there's been a new patch every other month or so. They also plan on releasing a DLC for the game. So they are investing in the game, which is a positive thing.

Edit: I might actually re-install the game and see what's changed lol.

Edit 2: I went back and tried the game again ... nope, I still don't like it that much. Build a big army as quickly as possible, it's the only thing that matters. I tried the autobuild function and it was just useless; it pays no attention to the resources you need, instead it decides to just do research 90% of the time even though what you really need is metals.

And what makes this different and unique from all the other 4X games out there?

This looks so much like what a REAL and FAITHFUL successor to MOO2 would look like, without all the "MOO2 was somehow broken so let's try to do it completely different!" crap that the actual successors that bore the same name seem to carry with them.

II got way too many unplayed games ATM, so wishlisted for now.

I just can't figure out why game developers are sometimes so adamant on alienating their fanbase and breaking a formula that CLEARLY WORKED.It's not like Firaxis got bought out by EA like the makers of some other ruined IP's were.

Wait, I saw Morpheus on the trailer! No grudge there - it's OK for the leader of the (human) Resistance to become the Galaxy's Supreme Leader.
BTW, I enjoyed the trailer.

If you liked MOO2, you will dig this game unless you're going to trip on the music/aesthetics not being mind-numbingly typical, in which case I'd recommend a Let's Play first.

No, not a reskin. But definitely much of the same play feel, and more than a couple obvious direct feature lifts from the classic that inspired it plus some actual welcome changes to the formula that take a lot of the tedium out of the mid to late game.

But man, some of these reviews... I can't believe somebody actually compared this game, much less any game unfavorably to SoTs for UI. I loved SoTs. But speaking as a former gaming journalist, a gamer who's been playing games since not long after Pong, and now an actual Web UI developer, that game had some of the most cryptic UI I've ever seen. Not an easy game to pick up and start running with. This one is, and I'm not 100% in agreement with every UI decision they made.

Anyway, Homeworld Cata is back and somebody finally made a MOO-inspired game that actually used much of the original MOO formula. I'm most definitely a * HAPPY CAMPER *.

Now if somebody would just a make Star Control game 100% about the Orz...

I can confirm what Judas is seeing. It doesn't appear to be a driver issue. From what I can tell there is something crashing in a secondary thread when the game starts. It seems to be some very specific Windows API call. I don't know what libraries they used to make the game but just looking at the debug it seems that OpenGL and FMOD are the only cross platform API /libraries they are using. So I suspect if Linux or macOS is done in the future, it will be a cost and time consuming process.