EVERSPACE™

This is a game I should have really liked. Its like Rogue Legacy in space - and I like Rogue Legacy, And the game is visually beautiful and the fights are pretty good. But I just could not get into it. I can't really say what turned me off of it, but I would play one game, die, and then not want to play again. Whereas with Rogue Legacy, I would die and want to get right back in to play "just one more time." I think for me the action is just not addicting enough, or I don't feel I make much of any progress after each game. Maybe if they increased how often credits dropped but then decreased their value, then I would want to go back in to get more. Plus you lose the credits you don't spend so it makes you want to spend everything instead of saving up for one big thing that I really want. So, again, that slows progression too much for me.

Summary: Everspace is a hollow facade of what should be a very good game. Everspace is undeniably a spectacle. Each astroid, ruin, and wreckage be-speckled zone of space is beautifully rendered. The controls are intuitive. Combat, augmented with a respectable assortment of weapons, ships, and configurables, is fast-paced as well as tactically challenging. So why the awful review? Unfortunately, the game doesn't appear to be finished. Contrary to the 1.06... version number this game is full of bugs and empty of content. Prepare for containers clipped into objects, explosive mines buried inside walls that you cannot detect or pre-detonate, locked doors and holds that won't open after you've expended an ever-elusive access key. Even if you can look past these blunders, the game has a mechanical inconsistency which makes the success of each run more a question of nanobot and fuel drops than skill or planning. The farther you venture, the slower you'll progress. Bigger, tougher opponents do not equate to bigger rewards. Its all very random to the point of destroying any sense of immersion. The beginning sectors have all the credits, materials and tech containers that drive rogue-like progression. The later sectors are at times devoid of anything at all. Upon venturing beyond Sector 3, the only incentive not to ram your ship into the nearest space-rock or electrostatic discharge field is either to unlock the lack-luster pre-mission load-outs or ineffable curiosity. I cannot recommend the game in its current state and hope the developers will come back to this beautiful husk with some real fixes.

If you go into this looking for something like Freelancer, you'll be disappointed. Arcade action, and it's a roguelike, but without much depth. It's pretty, but feels shallow and empty. Other roguelikes that build on top of the pattern offer at least something to buffer the permadeath or advance the formula. Not here. Shoot things in arcadey outer space, die, do it again. If this sounds like your jam, go for it. It's not mine.

Beautiful but boring. The store is decent enough. Basically guy has amnesia and wishes to learn about his heritage. Most of it is done through comic style cutscenes, with maybe a word or two in mission. There lies the problem. Most missions are grab enough fuel to jump to next cutscene/node. Rinse repeat. Nearly nothing in the maps I have played so far had anything to do with the story, except for boss battles. Those are people from his past who try to murder him. They talk for like 30 seconds then bugger off. The combat is alright. I have not found much favor in any of the weapons sans the flakcannons, bfg nuke missile ar9000 or something, and corrosive missiles. the rest are half assed. The combat is also ruined by the incessant nagging and whining of the ai and pilot. take 2 shots from some back biting Nalis and the AI is like OMG WE'RE LOSING DO SOMETHING! and the pilot is yelling along the lines of O NOES WEEZA GONNA DIE? Stupid stuff like that nearly every other bloody dog fight. I could understand if I had 2hp left., but for the love of Talos 2 shots in and tears are flowing? The scenery is beautiful (usually). but the boundaries for the maps are not clearly defined and there is something far worse with the exploration aside from 99% of it involving fetching menial goods. The freaking super mega colonial ships. Spend a little too long enjoying the sights or playing hide-and-seek with those blasted Warp Drive suppressors and the bad guys arrive to murder you. 99% of the time it is 2 corvettes and umpteen fighters. Once they are dead the capital ships drop in and start blasting with the intensity of a thousand suns with aimbot like precision from kilometers away. After recent patches there is no way to kill the which basically involved hiding in their belly button and pew pewing for hours. The best that can be hoped is to take out the turrets and aim for the little green warp dot to get the hell out of there. Hopefully I can keep enough interest in it, but I have already gotten a decent ways in and I am bored and annoyed. Great style and possibilities squandered by focusing on boring fuel and resource hoarding. TL;DR wait for BIG sale. Like 90% off sale. It has the right set up but abysmal execution.

I got this game free on GOG during one of their spend $$$ get games promo. I'm really glad I got this game for frree. When this game was announced way back when, I was really exceited for it becuase I love flying and blasting space ships. When I found out that this game was really an FPS in space, I hesitated. I'm a big X3:TC fan. Let's just stick to this game tho ... I really, really think the developers should've gone the Descent route instead of this FTL/Roguelike mashup. I can't stand being rushed out of a sector by infinite baddies (i.e., FTL). There is a part of this game where you find some ancient structure and you can briefly explore it. Being a fan of Descent, I was instinctively trying to fire the flare gun to light up the interior. Others have said that this game is really, really difficult. I played on normal for about 20 times before switching over to easy. I managed to upgrade my character and two ships with reasonable(?) upgrades. The first time I played easy, I managed to get to the final destination. Like FTL, when the final boss happens, you just get overwhelmed by superior ships and firepower. This game is no different. There were 6 rounds of enemies to defeat and I managed to get through 4 of them before getting destroyed. Even on easy, this was extremely difficult. I gave up and uninstalled the game after that. Life is to short.