Posted on: April 13, 2025

apeman505

Games: 1532 Reviews: 25

Lots of dogfighting fun!

Everspace boasts a lot about its difficulty, but don't let that discourage you. Setting the game on easy mode doesn't affect the combat much, the main difference I find is that on medium and hard they're much more stingy with fuel. Once I caved and went to easy mode I had a lot more fun with the game since my runs lasted much longer (because I wasn't constantly out of fuel) and I was making much more progress. Everspace really doesn't hold your hand, though, and I'm still learning about the game even 20 hours in or so. Took me a few runs to realize you can (and should) upgrade your guns and shields each run using the resources you find in each map node, and that your sensors don't automatically detect all the resources in each node upon entering the location--you need to explore each point of interest for treasures whenever you make an FTL jump. And that's a large part of the fun of Everspace. There's always something new to discover and explore, lots of guns and gadgets to experiment with and upgrade, and lots of mysteries to investigate. I only just figured out you can fly inside those giant monoliths you come across periodically, and that doing so causes... well, I won't spoil it. Although I'm still playing on easy mode 20 hours in, I'm having a blast. Five stars.

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Edited on: October 27, 2025

Posted on: June 4, 2025

Jinini

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Games: 204 Reviews: 20

Terrible controls and some bugs

1.5/5 4.5/10 Rating based on gameplay during only tutorial stuff but since the control stuff will be persistant it would be the same regardless of time played. The game looks incredible and I would love to love it but I cant because of the terrible controls no matter how much I fiddled with it! The aiming and steering is really bad and after messing with it for an hour I gave up. No matter what I set the pitch and yaw axis to and the deadzone slider, I just either jumped around eratically and unpredictably which made steering and aiming so frustrating, or it was so slow u cant do anything. No matter what I set it to, it wasnt working for me :s Setting the deadzone to its max in those 2 options also bugs the game making your ship/camera spin nonstop untill you restart the game. I think something simply isnt working as it should, or its just badly designed for keyboard and mouse :s This steering/camera happened on both windows and Linux. I also didnt find an option to lower the camera movement during photo mode and in the ship bay thing, the camera/mouse just moved way too fast. The Linux versions is also bugged, making us do workarounds and while the Lutris/GOG has some gd tips and build in files to help, it still didnt work for me for all things. I got the game running fine with the system libs .sh instead of the the deafult exe but then the cinematics didnt work, they did on the wine version tho. Im not technical enough or interested enough in this case, to sit and mess more with this. Ive been wanting to play this game for yrs, it looks good and I might still give the sequel a try, but it will be on a discount now only because I fear the steering will be the same thing now. Im sry but it was unplayable like this and I just couldnt aim and actually hit the enemies, it just wasnt smooth and intuitive as it could have been. Kudos for the visuals tho! 🐧 Arch Linux endeavuorOS

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Posted on: August 23, 2025

brucelombardo75

Verified owner

Games: 23 Reviews: 1

Really pretty graphics

Garbage game. Just a real garbage game, that has 'roguelike' in the description, but has no real joy to it. Even before I was through with the tutorial, I could see, it looked like a grind festival. This isn't the space sim I want to play. I don't want to get dumped into a sector with forty or more bad guys that just swamp you when you are trying to not be around.

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Posted on: September 2, 2025

SERGESVIN

Verified owner

Games: 22 Reviews: 1

Best Game World

The Best Game in space. a laik it

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Posted on: August 23, 2020

hollandaekolu

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 7

The best 3D space shooter out there

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.

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