It's pretty cool, first time playing a game of this genre and it felt like the tutorials properly showed you how to play if you read them. They're also always accessible in case you forget them. You can set your empire to basically run itself so you don't have to micromanage and instead focus on overall strategy or to mess around with a feature you really like. I hate The Hive with a passion but they're not impossible to beat as they don't explicitly target you, you can keep developing and curb stomp them in a few years. 6.5/10 because my CPU is running at 100% consistently even on the smallest galaxy settings (12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H)

It's a good game