EVERSPACE™ 2

Everspace 1 was one of my favourite space games. Its controls felt perfect. This game feels nothing like Everspace 2. The controls are absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I don't understand why the devs changed how the game feels, it's essentially unplayable now. Super disappointing. Refunded.

Why did you butcher ES1 perfect flight mechanics for this? Utterly baffled at the design decisions.

I love this game! Having unlocked every ship in Elite Dangerous this game was a breath of fresh air as far as space ship combat goes. Best way to sum it up is a much simple Elite Dangerous but with far more customization and actual missions to do. The combat reminds me a lot of Star Wars Rogue Squadron but with more movement options and fast paced combat. I have played tons of flight sims and arcade flying games with this game is one of my favorites for sure! The story is decent but the combat really sells this game, it is SO fun! The sound effects, variety of ship perks, weapons, and cosmetics make it a blast. If you want a fun space kind of game where you can just hop in and play for an hour or two blasting ships away this is the perfect game for you.

Absolutely superb. It's Freelancer meets Oblivion, a genuine space shooter RPG. Loved zooming around the cosmos to banging music, shooting ♥♥♥♥ up, and solving neat puzzles with my ship. Great loot, progress, story - everything was excellent.

This exceeded my expectations. It's like Ace Combat and Colony Wars, along with some RPG looter elements like Diablo. The game is pretty good across the board, including graphics and story. There's a bit of an end game if you want to grind legendary items (that have cool, unique effects). One thing that was a pleasant surprise was the environmental puzzles. It's pretty neat to fly into a planet via mine shafts and activate power systems, or fly into derelict spaceships orbiting a planet and other such things. This could be one to leave installed for some, and return to do just a little bit more here and there. Or just go ham and put 50-100 hours into it.

Decent vanilla story, good banter and good combat once you get stuck in. Ship movement is slick and refined, audio design is great. ... Why am I not recommending it, though? - Egregious RNG at endgame. They implemented a "lock these attributes" feature to help tamp it down on equipment, but there are so many options for attributes and ship passives that you'll spend weeks trying to minmax the build you want to try. All that minmaxing requires rare resources in large quantities to drown it in sheer buckets of dice rolling (as well as time: yeah it might only take a few seconds to get to each encounter and a couple minutes to complete them, but it all adds up), and getting access to the events that spawn those resources is also dependent on RNG. Also: said RNG is immune to save scumming, so no reloading your save in the vain hope of getting different outcomes. - Tedious endgame gameplay loop. The only real goals you have after the story are minmaxing builds (see above), achievement hunting (see below) or playing the dungeons at higher and higher difficulties. - Balance issues, especially at endgame. AI accuracy is dictated by game difficulty, dungeon difficulty is managed by cranking enemy health and damage to ludicrous levels. So, the only thing making the game "harder" is your ability to manage bullet sponges. Nothing says good game design like meta builds revolving around a gun that insta-kills enemies, abilities that give you chances of dealing area damage because your DPS isn't enough to chew through single targets quickly, mines (and gear) that increase damage taken to all things affected by them and shields that have an almost-automatic chance to ignore damage. - Secrets and puzzles are of wildly varying quality, and you may or may not end up having to rely on YouTube to 100% everything. - Dubious DLC quality. Wrath of the Ancients has a couple of BIG plot holes right off the bat that completely contradict established lore. Once you finish Titans, you'll have its specific NPCs regularly nagging you to play their encounters with no way to shut them up. - If you're one of those that doesn't like things on Unreal Engine 5, I hate to break it to you. I've found the game to run okay, though it does occasionally crash when there's a lot going on all at once. - Price of admission when it isn't on sale. $50 base and $15 per DLC is... a bit steep. Value proposition is a lot better if it is, though, and that's the only circumstance where I'd change my recommendation. Also, a gripe: various NPC ships aren't up for grabs. I know they've outright stated that capital ships are off the table (though they did kinda give you one as a space Winnebago in WotA), but I like the design of the various NPC ships more than I do most of the designs that are offered to the player. If there is a third installment of this series and the G&B heavy fighter or the light Freelancer fighter aren't up for player use, I'm gonna be incredibly disappointed.

Chorus made me get into space games and I was really hoping this one would live up to the hype.. But navigating these missions and trying to find "parts" or "objectives" or whatever is so unintuitive. The flying feels great, combat is cool, but everything else is painful. Really disappointed.