I have never felt so cheated by a developer, and will never purchase another game from Amplitude again. 3 months later and countless hours searching for a fix for the corrupted save bug and the game is still UNPLAYABLE. I've tried to enjoy this game - far more than i would have had i not enjoyed the first Endless Space so much - and as much as I want it to work and be enjoyable I am giving up. Despite an apology from the developers and a long-awaited bug fix/rebalance update earlier this month, the corrupt save file issues remains. Even worse, the devs have released only a handful of updates over the past several months which have done nothing to correct this and the largest update actually broke the game even more for most users. There are more differences between the factions than stat bonuses or the appearance of citizens and spaceships - some of them have completely different gameplay philosophy or things like preferred planetary environments. I have spent dozens of hours playing and attempting to remedy this issue to no avail. Choosing your race for the first playthrough in Endless Space is not something obvious. Now you can get access to various debug features. A game-breaking bug in which save files are corrupted after a mere 100 turns or so (even short games take at least 250 turns to complete) still prevents this game from being enjoyable or even playable. Put enablemoddingtools (without quotes) in the launch options of the game in Steam (right-click on the game in the library, properties, general tab). It's not without issues, certain areas still have a need to be touched up, like hovering over a trait will show the pointer behind it. A game-breaking bug in which save files are corrupted after a mere 100 More than 3 months after release, and the game is still unplayable. Endless Space 2 is, above everything, a great 4X game. More than 3 months after release, and the game is still unplayable.

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