Purchasing this was a mistake. Financially I believe I can probably support it but, it's just a not a good game, and you can't return anything bought over Steam.
I mean, I've always been a fan of this particualr genre, but like all niches there are good examples and bad ones, and unfortunately Armada 2525 falls into the latter catagory.
I mean, there are some good ideas present, but there's absolutely nothing original or that hasn't been done better elsewhere. Furthermore the presentation is poor in all areas, the minimap is difficult to get information from, and Ship battles are a dull, counter-intuitive mess.
It doesn't suprise me in the least that Armada 2525 have never put out Demo, as then nobody would have ever bought it. I wouldn't even pirate this game.
To be fair, a lot of it feels similar to how Paradoxes Sword in the Stars felt early on in it's life, so it's possible that all it needs is a bit of post release polish. However, that said it's already been released for a fairly long time with no changes, plus it's a homage to a much older DOS game (which irksomely enough happens to be better than this remake).
There are good games out there where you lead an interstellar nation to victory through "various" means, most of them involving gunboat diplomacy, but this isn't one of them.
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