Eterium

Gameplay is overall decent and fun for a couple of hours (if you like these kind of games). Story and characters are forgettable. Recommended for the space combat. You can skip everything else if you want to.

Eterium fails to impress even after a few hours of gameplay, and I found myself quickly losing interest and going back to my backlog. With many other better games available in this space in 2023, there's simply no reason to waste time on this lackluster and forgettable title.

So... Here's the thing: the gameplay is fine. I have a few quibbles that are specific to this game like the enemies being able to outrun your laser shots making them useless unless you are into bumping range (I relied a lot on FF missiles for this and because seekers have ridiculously short range) but the rest are things I could say of some Wing Commander games. The main thing being of course that the gameplay feels rather simplistic compare do Freespace or X-wing, as does the mission design which is 90% patrol missions that consist in going to nav, kill stuff, rinse and repeat. The in-flight graphics are nice and clean with some really pretty skyboxes. The character art however is rather amateurish and kills the vibes a bit for me, considering the old WC games did compensate their simplicity in gameplay with vibes it's a rather big caveat. The game is delisted but keys can be found on eBay for cheap, and of course it's technically possible to install the demo if you want to try it without even spending the few Euros necessary for a key. Stick support is limited to one device with maybe a rudder, so you'll need some software to use a separate throttle if you have one.

I want to like this game, but it does an awful job of teaching a new player how to play it. The core of the game is a great idea, but there is need for UI/UX polish

I just wanted the experience shown in the videos, but after trying to scroll through the "story" diologue I couldn't get the flight controls down, and after some practice and reading I gave up.

Потерянный космосим, который на фоне всех остальных уже вышедших игр не нужен.