Simply breathtaking!
I was caught off guard by the "special controls" and had to stop shortly after as being able to control time (and space?) was too much for me. Discovering the paper towel in the game's toilet paper based economy was also a turn I did not see coming, and frankly, a little too controversial for my taste!
My favorite aspect is the poignant allegory to man's insatiable greed over our common resources, and the invevitable warfare that must ensue. Why else would there only be three modes in-game, but to reflect the three paths laid out for us as common prisoners of a world caught in perpetual conflict: To build, to war, or to do nothing.
Big plus for not including a story as we all know by now that video games are bad at telling stories anyway.