EVERSPACE™

The Best Game in space. a laik it

Smooth controls, skill-based combat, plenty of exploration, resource management etc etc. This game does everything so well. From music to dialogs, every details are well crafted. It does not give you a vast galaxy with thousands of meaninglessly random planets and asteroids. Instead it gives you a limited set of encounters (space stations, wrecks, minable asteroids etc) which are meaningful. They impact the gameplay, you may want to avoid some, and prioritize others to optimize your run. It is a permadeath rogue-lite, where you can upgrade your next run using the credits you gained in the last run. You can customize your starter ship and equipment which adds repeatability. I played this game several hours a year before. Then I put it down, a year later when I came back, I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time.

Well, it is missing a bit content yet, for obvious reasons. You fly around, get attacked by outlaws and aliens, harvest fuel, ore and leftover from killed outlaws. It has a very good playing feel, the controls are well done. I would love a few more pixel as center-deadzone to make aiming easier without steering the ship. The graphics are very good, the sound is good too. And the nice comments from the ship computer fit well into the action. If you want to watch the gameplay in Ultra HD: https://youtu.be/IfbHK-DdonA

Well... I like the game very much for its controls, graphics, feel, tech-tree of the upgrade system. I like also exploration in it, diplomacy, trading, mining, repairs, crafting. About combat, it is on/off when i'm out of homing missiles i'm pretty much dead. What I find very strang is that my first attempt out of the box lead me to sector 3 and well inside it. I'm at 10th life or so, but now ennemies kill me very quick. it looks like I'm stuck, sector 1, 2, restart etc. Instead of my better shields helping me, it looks like ennemies are way stronger now than on the first lives. The more I analyze the way I do in combat the more i realize than none of my shots are touching the ennemies, only homing missiles wich is frustrating. I've tried pulse laser, gatling, with no luck. There is a laser that seem to have an auto=aiming ability, but does very low damage. It's a shame because I would like to see the story mode develop, but the most travel i did was on the first run, and it worsen from there.

This game was relesed in eptember 2016. That's when I purchased Everspace. Everspace is a fine space sim with a very limited story and a game design that depends heavely on grinding, grinding, and more grinding, just so you can upgrade your ships. In fact, upgrading your ships is the only real motivation to keep playing. The narrative that exists come sin the form of chance encounters with quest givining NPCs. The GREAT thing about this game is that it is so beautiful. The graphics are gorgeous, and should hold up for a few years, In 2021, the game still looks awesome, even though it was released back in 2016. If you are satisfied with a beautiful dog fight simulator, then this game won't dissappoint. But don't expect any kind of story to compell you to keep playing. You're playing to upgrade your ships, and make the dog fights easier and easier.