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The Pegasus Expedition
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The Pegasus Expedition is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game set in a key moment for humankind’s survival. Facing an overwhelming threat at home, humanity sends expeditions to the Pegasus Galaxy in a desperate attempt to find a refuge for the population of Earth. From the Steam store page
196 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
110 positive · 83 negative
95% range 50–64%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
245 of 392 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 196 · most liked firstTL;DR version: If you're wanting Stellaris but with a campaign and story mode, then I do not recommend this game for you at all. If you're wanting a Virtual Novel with light 4x elements as gameplay between segments of the story then this isn't that bad! I approached this game knowing full well that it wasn't going to be heavy on the 4x elements as some other games. From watching gameplay and seeing cutscenes and moments with your war-council and other species, how the conversations were…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good god the pacing is just horrible it's just one scripted war into another war. All your doing is sitting there doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nothing waiting for your ships to repair a damaged fleet will ALWAYS take 6 turns to repair. Which isn't that bad unless your starting a unavoidable war ever 3 turns. Not to mention you have to build fleets but the AI just gets them, something not unheard of. The issue is the fleets the AI gets are roughly 3 times the strength of your strongest. Also remember the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, a pretty great narrative 4X-lite. If you're looking for something like Stellaris, GalCiv, or something similar, this isn't it. But if you found those too complex, or just want a break from the sandbox while still getting the itch for some grand strategy, The Pegasus Expedition is a great option in my opinion. The game's main focus is on the narrative campaign, which you can finish in about 20 hours without aiming for total galactic domination. The second half of the campaign can be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like both good sci-fi and 4X games, but mixing the two only works to a point. 4X is about replayability, while a fixed story gets old fast since you’re always playing through the same plot. The genre works better with emergent storytelling than with a scripted narrative. As a 4X, it has some ambitious ideas, but it’s missing a lot of QoL features (like proper overviews of outposts and colonies), which makes it messy and frustrating to play. With enough development, it could still turn…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay, so this is an interesting one. Even though I will be listing many cons below, I still like the concept of the game and enjoyed it enough to recommend it. It really reminds me of a simplified Stellaris with a storyline, which is an interesting concept. The gameplay is fine and the story is good enough. I didn't encounter any bugs, except one time the game froze on one of the faction's turns, but reloading a previous save fixed that. Pros: + I really liked the concept of a 4X game with a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So really, this feels like a mid-to-late early access game. Several of the features are half implemented and there's seemingly leftover stuff from development still in the game. The UI is a bit clunky, a lot of things have no explanation so you're guessing about how a lot works. Saving, doing/building, seeing what happens, and then loading has been my dear friend. Speaking of saving and loading, many tooltips are wrong, some values in game aren't updated as the game goes through turns which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just finished the main campaign, And i'm Realy agreably surprised. Here is a very decent not too simple 4X, with some fresh idea, and who succeed very well the narativ part, even if the story is not very complex (but quite original, as you're an invader that have reason to act the way they act, but absolutly no real casus belly against your enemy : You're a coloniser. Face it.) I'm a 4X veteran , trying most tittle that are too badly receptionned to test them, and i didn't go try this one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Pegasus Expedition is a competent strategy game with several interesting ideas and a narrative direction that few others in the genre attempt. Its strongest element is how it encourages players to commit heavily to early resource investments before settling into a more traditional strategic rhythm. Space battles move at a brisk pace thanks to limited direct control, ensuring that difficult decisions arise almost every turn. Unfortunately, these inventive concepts never fully come together.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm done with this game. After 25 hours of playing it, I just can't see myself recommending it despite the brilliant things it has going for it. Let me be clear; the story is interesting and I really do wish the rest of the game allowed me to finish it. The first 10 hours of the game are brilliant; they set up the story and the mechanics, and I really wish the rest of the game followed suit in supporting it. The story is this: you're an invader not by choice but by necessity because the rest of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How is the game still this bugged after all this time? Buttons randomly stop working, rebuilding a colony in the same turn costs extra resources... Why hasnt this been fixed yet?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a hot mess, it is trying to do a lot of things and none of them very well. I got this in the Humble Bundle, and would have refunded if I had paid money for this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played a long list of strategy games, which provided me with a fairly well knowledge and experience in this genre and subgenres, in particular, historical games. I'm not a fan of science fiction, therefore sci-fi games barely catch my interest, however, The Pegasus Expedition is among the few exceptions. I am quite impressed by Pegasus due to its multilayer design that consists of a dynamic economy, grand and tactical strategic tactics, and a complex combat system. From a global map…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stellaris-like, with simpler mechanics (not a bad thing) and a hand crafted story about politics, desperation, betrayal, ethical dilemmas, and ultimately hope. I was drawn in by the first opening cut scene setting the story and I didnt stop until the closing credits. Pros: -4X players will be able to pick up the mechanics pretty easily. By my third restart I felt like I had the gist of it, and started my run to the end credits. -The difficulty feels about right. Making tactical mistakes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has terrible mechanics and no balancing to make it artificially hard the happiness system makes no sense and the aliens ignore any restrictions on diplomacy making the treaties only restrict the player's actions while the AI can do whatever it wants regardless of treaties signed until they fix this I cannot recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was enjoying my first playthrough, aside from some glitched quest bugs, when stuff happened that made no sense. I was surrounded by allies, so I was on a temporary break from attacking anyone. Factions had declared war on me, but with allied buffers I negotiated passage treaties and I was still trying to get my fleets into position. During this time, my galactic reputation went from 100% positive to 100% negative, and my happiness went from over 90% to 15% and planets rebelling. I couldn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excessively overwritten. You get pointless, forced "philosophical" speeches spammed at you every time you click something. Got sick of it and uninstalled in under an hour. Worth noting, I played Citizen Sleeper (A gamer that's 90% writing and dialogue) for 7 hours and got an ending that made me sad. Citizen Sleeper had me considering what it meant to be human, to be alive rather than exist or merely survive. It did this as a nameless robot, on a busted space station, full of excellently written…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I changed my mind a lot of time about this game. I first I was put of by the bland dialog and the mediocre 4X, but then, the mix 4X-narration start working – it’s usually a very strong mix-, the autobattler, while lacking depth is pretty and the optimism of the game in the European construction is touching (the French admiral, the minister from Sarajevo and the other one from the Ruhr, a pity the player title is not commissioner like any good EU bureaucrat). I grow annoyed by all the bugs,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The two major gripes here are the mid-to-late stages of the campaign where honestly everything starts to kind become a blurry haze of slapping down outposts, upgrading fleets at your 1-2 dedicated tier 2 ship building planets, crunching forwards through whoever is in your way, and if you choose to enter the lizard-people civil war you get to enjoy ether having to crunch through the other half of the galaxy or you'll be stuck with a permanent -2.50% to your happiness cap (and you'll accrue more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pros: interesting/varied campaigns & choices, nice presentation & simple, fast execution of large fleet-based combat. cons: the UI. considering how streamlined everything else is in favor of removing micromanaging and making you feel like you're in an epic story, you would expect a more robust, feedback-based UI like in Endless Space. Instead you get the Battlestar Galactica Deadlock 'figure it out yourself' approach. that is, w/regard to tactics, fleet strength/composition, research,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're a fan of narrative driven experience and 4 X games then you may enjoy this, the story is compelling and maintains the right amount of pressure. I personally loved this game as the story vaguely reminds me of Stargate SG1 and our fight for the right to survive. These are tips from an Edge Lord on how to be a Humanity First Nemesis. When faced with the cruelty of this universe, my fleets push forward, my soldiers scream out, my species RAGE! Outpost and Colony management The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does have a Howard Zinn quote in one of the loading screens, and so I would like to give it a positive review, however I can't quite overlook the game's extremely clunky UI, more or less random balancing, and just general lack of polish and compelling gameplay. This really feels like a game where they got the various elements kind of, technically, working, and then just immediately shipped it out the door without doing any additional testing for ease of use, balance, fun, pacing, etc.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pegasus Expedition is one of the games I always wanted to play. Space strategy with story where your decissions matter. It still needs some polish before being at it's height, but I had a lot of fun with finishing it. And I didn't had a headache with the late game stuff, as I usually have with strategies :D. So the good and the bad: + completely new approach to space combat + engaging storyline with memorable moments + a lot of stuff happening keeping the boredome away + beautiful and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Limit of three fleets per system, they aren't in a master list, there's a way to travel faster between systems but it doesn't work because you have systems which have been blown up or disappear, You can't even switch fleets between each other systems without moving one at a time and you only can move two spaces at once. Feels like a traffic jam instead of space
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ehhhh, it has a lot of pieces that want to work together but don't quite. R&D, ship combat, settling, etc. are all just a touch too shallow and the politics can get weird. I just lost a few important systems to an ally without any indicator of why or how, and now I can't get them back for example. It's not bad, but there is better stuff out there. Really hard to put my finger on why but it just doesn't land.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Obtuse ridiculous mechanics that the game doesn't explain to you, and apparently you can face enemy troops with 1.5x their number, and get completely shredded without any explanation at all. Also the happiness mechanic is the singular most annoying mechanic I've ever seen in a game. You can do literally nothing to fix it after you do what you can to stop the AI from just blow through your systems. And WHY does it take nearly 2x the cost to repair your fleets as it does to build new ones? Don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was so promising, but the bugs man
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave a thumbs up because I like the premise of the game. However there are some things that are frustrating. The attrition rate of your ships is appalling. You take major damage even when you vastly outnumber the enemy. This causes you to repair your ships, but they are defenseless when you do so there must always be another fleet with you. You can only have 3 fleets at a time orbiting any planet and the AI seems to have limitless fleets. The cost of everything is out of whack. It costs the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Xcom meets space politics, But with all the fun surgically removed, Would rather get lost in space.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Couldn't even make it past the tutorial. Railroading me through a bunch of "choices" without explaining what they mean was bad enough. Having the UI block important elements of the tutorial was the final straw.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Standard 4x which meets the standard, but wow what a great meta-story that differentiates it from the herd. One of the best space 4x experiences.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From the reviews this looked like a game I might enjoy. The art style is very nice and the premise of the game also is appealing. However for me the combat system feels like a slow frustrating slog, repairing fleets takes way too long, the pacing overall is just completely off. Try as I might, I just can't find a way to enjoy this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is good, there's not much spectacle in the actual combat but the entire combat system is enjoyable for the most part. The only problem I have with it is that it can basically boil down to: Is your fleet stronger? Then just do the peaceful combat style and spend a little resource to buff your fleet so that in the end you can increase your galactic standing. If your fleet is weaker, just use all means necessary and you should still be able to win, and repeat, keeping your galactic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generally an okay game. Basically a lightweight version of Stellaris. However there are a few nitpicks I have. Combat is pretty confusing and I'm not completely sure how much impact different fleet types or tactics have. The UI is missing quality of life features that would help in managing a large empire. I often don't know which territories I captured need new facilities without opening each one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game, unfortunately one of the main issues with it is the slow scope creep to tediousness and punishment for success; the more successful you are, the more tedious the game gets, and the more you get punished. At a grand strategy level, nothing is available to manage the empire for you; no bureaucracy, just lists of what you have. You’d have to get four notebooks: fleets, systems, planets, and plans, and then keep track in them of who is where, what they are doing, what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun game, though in the beginning aka the tutorial segment it feels like while they tried to give the player freedom they also expected you to follow a fairly linear path story wise and what you were supposed to do with each of your turns. Sometimes I found myself questioning whether I triggered an event that started me towards a quote un quote "bad ending", after moving through the tutorial segment though the game's play space opens up considerably while still maintaining a nice balance…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short Version Pegasus Expedition ticks all the boxes which are supposed to make a good 4X game but somehow fails to capture the spirit of “just one more turn” which makes those games addictive to play Long Version Story – Poor There is some semblance of story in the game but as this is a strategy game it is more of extended tutorial campaign to learn how to play the game. It tries to put some moral dilemmas now and then but it is mostly secondary. Gameplay – Average As I have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Updated review (Warning signs + hotfix) I believe the game is now in a playable state and is worth playing now. The devs are still taking bug reports to fix issues so I'll continue to report anything I find until I 100% finish the game. I didn't jump into this game expecting to be an unofficial bug tester but I'm willing to do it only because the devs are taking action to improve the game. The majority of my playtime was done suffering through the many issues the game had that are now fixed.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The quite confusing UI is a barrier to enjoying this game. At any given time it was not clear what I could do or was doing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Pegasus Expedition,, is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game that places players at a pivotal moment for humanity's survival. Facing an overwhelming threat at home, humanity sends an expedition to the Pegasus Galaxy in a desperate attempt to find refuge, only to become embroiled in an interstellar war they inadvertently started. Pros: -Engaging Narrative: The game offers a compelling storyline that delves into themes of survival and diplomacy, providing players with meaningful choices…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →well the idea is good the execution not so much , i gave it a SUPER fair shot , (i actually played around 50 hours and i forgot it open on my computer at home when i was abroad) The 4X element is very superficial , The idea of colonies and settlements does not work Its very hard to find colonisable planets Your diplomatic status with nations is not clear, i don't see any way to see it especially if you raise your level to nemesis because you can only see it when you open a diplomacy session…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Pegasus Expedition is a 4x strategy game with a focus on a strong and interesting narrative. It’s story campaign might not be as endlessly re-playable as other 4x games, but the focus on story does set it apart from other genre titles. It also features branching story decisions and character interactions. Overall the campaign experience is a great one. I at least was very invested in the fate of the various factions and characters taking centre stage here in the story. I would love to see…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want a more traditional grand strategy, look elsewhere, but if you enjoy Koe’s historical simulation series, like Nobunaga’s Ambition. Then I believe this narrative grand strategy should please.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is broken in a lot of ways: diplomacy does not work at all (or has to be exploited), "happiness" is neither generated nor spent the way you would think it is and your reputation in the galaxy is very hard to manage. Most of the science projects are useless and conquering a planet with existing structures is a disadvantage, not an advantage. In addition, there are smaller bugs and (rare) game-breaking bugs. (Concerning bugs: the devs are very helpful and will repair a savegame that you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first it seems like a simplified stellaris, but then as I got more into the game I had fleets of 2k power losing to fleets of 150 power???? My fleets were not even appearing on the combat screen and some battles were forcing me to "flee" without being able to use one of my fleets present. Resources are impossible to gain even when you have a system of 6x +100% minerals that are all industrial. I even went so far as to crank up my bonuses for myself to +50% in combat power and resource…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My brief review of this game would be 'F this game'. It really, really, really needs a tutorial instead of dumping you into a space map view that barely zooms with no quest information or even the slightest idea of what the game even is. For all I know it's a bloody RTS with cards and Dance Dance Revolution in space.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No.... just no. I got this as part of Humble Bundle and it looked great... BOY was I wrong. I played some of the tutorial and after clicking a different button for combat (that BTW you can only tell them what kind of formations to make as a group and not say... send ships to a losing group to help them win) I got windows highlighting NOTHING with tool tips telling me about what to click. All in all I'm uninstalling the game and probably never going to look back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has too much bugs, when something in UI is blocked. Can't proceed to turn 3.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't play for long: the story is quite interesting at first, with some kind of "story rich" 4X game... but everything from the start feels unintuitive, not fun : building colonies, moving fleet, battles; everything is not well designed. So I just disliked it and couldn't get more into the story. Too bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looked like an interesting game when bought it on sale and I guess as a strategic one it might be ok. What I don't like - after some might argue just a couple of hours - is that it looks one has no other option to solve issues other than just going to war and achieving goals (save our home system) by exterminating the inhabitants of the new galaxy. "I need resources and land - so I kill the ones that own it." Diplomacy is not really an option. In current times this looks way too familiar and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Narrative strategy game" is an idea that keeps coming around and sounding cool but not really clicking for me. It feels like the only reasonable way to play is: * play the game until something you do unexpectedly triggers what the game designers thought should be the next narrative beat * reload, and avoid triggering that action while figuring out the game / building up your strength / preparing for their "surprise" * eventually trigger it, and play forward until the next bit of "story" hits.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is almost a good game. Almost. The game is driven by a somewhat predictable but still fun story (if you have seen The Expanse, every story arch in there can be found in this game). Combat is automated and your ability to influence the outcome doesn't go beyond what you would you would see in the Endless Space games. I am ok with that, even if it means the game is basically about building fleets and moving them to a location. It's all a bit simple, but I had fun with these aspects of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game! I've played nearly every 4 x space game in the last 30 years and without a doubt this is one of the best, most enjoyable 4 x games I've played. The story is what sets it apart. People complain about too many cut scenes but that is what makes this game great. The story is deep and there is always something you have to deal with, decisions that need to be made, etc. I loved it! The visuals, the design, the pace of the game are excellent. It took me a while to figure everything out…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I both recommend and don't recommend this game. in its current state its borderline unplayable. there's so much "story" stuffed down your throat by force while you're trying to play that it is ridiculous. you are very literally accosted almost every turn for several minutes while some drama plays out in some meeting or other that could have just been a tooltip or encyclopedia entry. i often just click through these meetings without reading any of it anymore and the whole thing ends with no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Possible threat detected, recommend do not buy I installed, tried to run the first time. Froze on loading, no big deal. But then I couldn't exit at all. If I close it in Steam, it just spins. If I close Steam itself, it re-opens Steam?? O.O Restarted computer, tried again, AVG immediately flagged program for Quarantine. Sooooooooooooooooo better go ahead and delete. Better safe than sorry.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an experiment showing what would Stellaris feel like as a narrative driven game. Yes, it feels buggy and a bit unfinished, but that didn't prevent me from having a good time and completing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →8/10 overall game. This was a fun play. I'm happy to play more. The story was a 9/10. It was functional, and the voice acted parts added weight to the story. The text options were really well put together, and thank goodness, it wasn't walls and walls and walls of text. It was short enough to break up game play, add some substance to the galaxy, and give you a short breather before going back to whatever it was you were doing before. Gameplay is probably a 6/10. There's a few quality…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Main character in this game is a very ugly female, her face looks obviously male. Stop this uglification of female characters in games! I can't concentrate on the story nor the game, when I see this obvious modern political bait. What is wrong with you, Kalia Gameworks? You would rather sacrifice the work of many people just to make a political statement? Whoever put this in the game - GTFO from the gamedev industry, because I won't believe it is just lack of skill on the artist side.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave this game a shot, but I feel like I've seen everything i needed to see in the first few hours; I kept playing for the sake of it but I honestly didn't enjoy this one. The game isn't fun to play in the way that Endless Space 2 or Stellaris are, and both of these offer more depth in war, diplomacy and development while both differing significantly from each other. Pegasus feels to me like its trying to be both of these games and only scratching the surface of each while having the most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Performance issues and bugs. But its not a bad game if you go beyond that. Its more of a narrative story then a standard 4x game. I mean there is 4x but you really only have one option since that is the plot. If they fix the bugs and performance issues I'd say yes. But losing progress because the game didn't save or becauser the janky ui for some reason keeps automatically picking at all costs which tank you reputation is really annoying and forces you to handle everything with an eagle…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to like this game. Plot seemed new and exciting and the reviews on yt were fairly positive. But its just riddled with bugs. Only played for 6hrs so far and it has crashed to blackscreen 3 times, regularly fails to allow you to click the fight button on battles at the end of turn forcing you to reload a save just to play the turn. Sometimes if your fleets don't have a move left it locks up and refuses to let you fight or run away and you have to reload a save. Just makes me sad…
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