EVERSPACE™ 2

I loved the first game, it was an unique roguelike that kept me playing even after I finished it to get the true ending. I always wanted to do another run. It was filled with combat and tension. There was the occasional rewarding puzzle here and there. Overall, a very well-paced game. The only downside was some very childish dialogue and the protagonist was a naive, generic goody two-shoes, but the gameplay more than made up for it. In the second game, which is an RPG and not a roguelike, I think the developers tried to provide players with a lot of "content" so players felt they're getting their money's worth. Problem is, most of this content is mind-numbing filler or literally doing nothing on auto-pilot for over a minute to get from one area to the next while staring at the screen. The fun part of the game is fighting and looting, but they force you to do endless puzzles with little or no reward when you could be fighting other ships and get that loot more than 10 times faster. Even if you figure a puzzle out in 10 seconds, it will take you 5 minutes to complete it because you gotta fly dozens of kilometers to put the pieces in their place. There are sections of the game where you do puzzles for 20-30 minutes and fight for 1-2 minutes in-between them and it just feels horrible and all you're thinking is "can I get back to the fun part already?!" I'd much rather have a shorter and more concentrated game than forced puzzles in every story mission to pad out the game time. How many times do you think I'll have fun escaping from a cave, devs?! The good: - Nice ship variety - Fun combat The bad: - The endless puzzles with crap or no rewards - Very long travel times, fast travel between systems unlocks when you're almost at the end. Dafuq? - No gravity on planet surfaces, things just float, breaks immersion - Childish dialogue, boring and inconsistent story - Using small, agile ships is impractical until much later because of the very small inventory space

I've ALWAYS wanted an Everspace universe that I could have the freedom to explore. We got it! It's sort of a linear RPG with ship and perk customization and crafting. Seems to be all quest based. Can't really make decisions and the dialog is automatic but this doesn't bother me at all. Games that allow you to make a decision or two always end up in the same place anyway! The story is good. I'm pretty early on but I am really liking it. The voice acting is okay. The visuals are great but I can't run it on Epic. I have an old GTX970 and I run it at 1080/Med and it's super smooth. I can tell they are still polishing up some things but I am having a lot of fun. Something that would be a nice addition would be to allow me to disable loot from showing up in the scanner so I can hunt for it myself more. Make me work for it. There's some puzzle type things now. Not that easy all the time either. Great addition! Rockfish have proven themselves in the past to be a great dev team. I am standing by them on this one as well. This universe could be huge with lots and lots to do in the future. Lots of potential! I think If you liked the first game and you wanted to explore the universe more you would like this!

Been waiting a long time for this game and it is NOT letting me down. Clean fun gameplay with beautiful effects and locations. Controls(on keyboard/mouse) are intuitive. The story is on rails, there is no decision making to be had except with gear/upgrades and build theory, which it has in spades. Only thing I feel it's missing is consequences for freeform murder/piracy in it's open-world format. Lastly the only issue I have had is with controller support, which is regretful. I really enjoyed playing the first game on controller and was looking forward to it here, but it just doesn't work well at all for me. Your experience may be different and my fingers are crossed someday it will be patched/fixed. -0.5 for controller issues Overall a d 4.5 * game IMO. Really enjoying it! Well done ROCKFISH Games.

The tutorial is pretty good and not hokie like some of them are. You feel like you're actually moving in a story as the game teaches you how to play. It's early access but it's playable now and fun RIGHT NOW. Do yourself a favor and get it.