So how broken is this game? Doesn't seem to be working whatsoever. Just floating around and nothing happens. Thought I was supposed to be devouring the galaxy.
It works fine for me. So please tell me your hardware specs.
It could be that due to the Hybrid Renderer you don't see anything if your hardware is not supported. I had one guy who had a very old graphics card which couldn't handle DirectX 11.1 and he didn't see anything as it could not render the stellar objects correctly.
I think the same happens to you.