My vacation has started, so I decided to try my hand at Shadow Empire, a very complex 4x/wargame with a 400-page manual. You play as a regime on a post-apocalyptic planet after a large galactic conflict. Currently, I'm watching a 3-hour tutorial video. You manage various aspects of your empire, including politics, diplomacy, economics, and military operations.

There is a whole supply system; your units need food, fuel, or ammunition to keep fighting or suffer consequences. Supplies need to be sent via either trains or trucks, using roads or railways.

You also design everything your armed forces use, from tanks and planes to equipment your infantry uses. Most of which you first need to research, since it's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting.

Planets are randomly generated, and you can have anything from frozen hells to jungles teeming with alien life or even water or desert planets. Alien life / planets (if there is any) and history is also randomly generated.

Its a bit like a mix between Dwarf Fortress and Hearts of Iron

The game is made by a single developer and is available on Steam and GOG. In this case, I would recommend the Steam version because you get access to the new beta versions right away.

The UI and interface are archaic and cumbersome. It will probably take me quite a while to learn it.

Added a screenshot so you can marvel at the glorious next gen gfx