some type of demon possessed me to try and get decent at starcraft 2 in the year 2023 and in the process of doing so, i was really struck by how good this game's UI is. everything makes sense, every hotkey is rebindable, units control in an intuitive and satisfying way, it gives you all the information and feedback you need and nothing more. i was never a huge rts player, but this is really making me remember what the appeal was.

unfortunately the campaigns are just depressing otherwise, because it's impossible to stop seeing the wh40k origins of every element of the world, except completely deprived of all bite and humour, and reduced to action movie slop about space americans doing regime change and also ancient aliens. in other words, it's a blizzard game.