honestgamer's Citizens of Earth review

I only encountered crashes on the PC version at the beginning of the campaign, and haven't had one in a long time. That sucks about your playthrough, though.

The load screens are also not nearly as bad on the PC version. They're there, but they only last a couple of seconds. I probably would have gone nuts if they were as long as the Wii U version, by the sounds of it. I can imagine that encounters would be a royal pain, as you indicated.

One other complaint I have is one that I wouldn't criticize the game for, but it's irritating getting it to work with Steam's in-home streaming. About half of the time, I only get the game's sound and nothing else. That sends me downstairs to close the game out on my PC, which somewhat defeats the purpose of streaming the game to another device. Again, I don't think it's really something the developers can work on. It could just be that Valve needs to improve in-home, which is still far from perfect.

Oh, and wonderful review, by the way. I agree that it's a good game, but issues like that are inexcusable.

To be clear, random encounters don't prompt the lengthy load screens I described. They're not as smooth and instant as I would expect, but there's only the briefest of delays. It's just that they add to the frustration after the delay moving from map segment to map segment.

I didn't mention it in the review, but some of the mini-games to recruit people really bugged me, too. The rhythm game (for the Musician, who I named Marley) took me hours of effort to clear, and the soda shop game was danged difficult, as well. I feel like they could have been made slightly easier while still providing a challenge for a lot of players. I did clear them both, but I can imagine a lot of gamers saying "Well, I don't want that guy anyway" and moving onto other things.