StarMade

Starmade is a free game (direct from star-made.org) that you can purchase on Steam for $14.99. It has simple yet deep systems that build upon each other in the process of building the perfect star station, capitol ship, or mining vessel. These systems drastically change and make you relearn the game each time the temperamental core community votes for a change from the old system every few months. From shield systems you have built into your saved ship blueprints to the mechanics and correct scaling of power blocks and distribution - all that can be swept away and a new learning curve implemented in the next patch/"update" in the name of progress. After nearly 12 years this game is still having an identity crisis.

Abandoned after being destroyed by the power patch.

Was better to leave abandoned rather than handing over reigns to the community for updates. Things like this lead by a community of people with everyone having an opinion never ends well. Good luck.

Jesus christ I bought this game in highschool and it's still in early access. That's 14 years it's been in Early Access I come back to the game every couple of years and it just no longer hits the mark each time, hoping for improvements. Something I knew is completely different but doesn't feel better or intuitive so I get hesitant having to relearn everything again

TL:DR the games such a frustrating mess to get into, I haven't been able to get into it and actually find out what it's about. You'd think after all this time they would have least updated the tutorial. Getting into this is brutishly frustrating, there's no real tutorial, just a vague set of useless videos that don't really explain much of anything and keybinds that don't seem to work right. Alignments that refuse to let you pick orientation without explanation etc. [b]I should never have to refer to third party documentation just to play the absolute basics of the game.[/b] I get 20 mins of bashing around the start blindly and just give up, every, single, session... Then try again in a few more years thinking 'oh hey, introduction flow might have been tested and upgraded' only to be massively disappointed and give up again. Props to whoever thought it was a good idea to put a wall of text containing a warning and instructions on a tiny scroll-able window and gives you a 20 second deadline to process the information before it undos your changes. ...Really?

initially this looked like abandoned ware, but it looks they are back working on it again with the latest update. so glad too because this game was awesome, very sophisticated crafting and ship and station building. rwally glad they have picked it up again

It's or was a great game back in the day when they was an active community. Unfortunately this game is still "Early Access" the community is not very active and unfortunately the online multiplayer servers are minimal with very few ever having players. Don't get me wrong this game has massive potential if the community was able to be brought back and have active development again.

Extremely in depth, more so than it looks. When you learn the game it gets very addicting.

The greatest game that never was. Abandonware. Game is free btw.

There is no game. It's a sci-fi Minecraft style sandbox. Don't get me wrong. I love StarMade and will continue to run it from time to time if only to see what changes the community managed. Outside of that there's only RP and PVP potential and even then there's not much of that is going around these days.