Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition

Aside from resource gathering and base-building, the main gameplay is JRPG-style ship-to-ship fighting, with a bit of ground-based individual fighting! I got 41 hours of mostly fun out of it, which is pretty impressive for an indie game.

THE GOOD:

• The fighting is tactically quite complex, with lots of consideration of precise timing, turn order, and combinations of abilities.
• The overall strategy outside of fighting is initially quite interesting as well. There are very few resources available and many challenges to solve for which you need to unlock capabilities in the right order.
• The character Bucky Rogers is too funny

THE BAD:

• The click-through tutorial at the beginning of the game is not helpful at all
• The regular difficulty was too hard for me, so I had to go with Easy, which was a lot more reasonable.
• By the late game the fighting started to feel repetitive.
• By the late game there was little left to do strategically.

THE UGLY:

• There were a bunch of minor bugs but no show-stoppers.
• The game crashed once and I lost an hour of play time.
• The handling of fleet membership when the fleets are away from your base is buggy and weird. I was able to empty out a fleet while it was traveling, although it was just a visual bug that had no gameplay effect.
• There were numerous bugs that could be triggered if you sent a fleet to a location before the enemy arrived. Often, the pre-programmed event would fail to trigger and you would need to leave and come back, or the before-battle conversation would end up happening after the battle.