Star Control®: Origins – Earth Rising Expansion

For my recommendation, skip to the end; cash-grab rant first. As someone who got Star Control: Origins and this Earth Rising DLC at the time of their original release, I feel burned by Stardock because: 1. Earth Rising got delayed several months, and they already had a staggered release schedule that made you wait too much between parts already 2. While it starts with a bang, the first part ends up too quickly in a whimper -I think it lasted an hour, maybe even less. Then you were suppossed to wait a few months until the next part. 3. At release, it had glitches -while the full game played flawlessly, the new aliens in this DLC were completely messed up, their vertices deformed -they looked like some kind of angular sea horse floating on air, this in the same install of the original game. I never played further -waiting all those months meant I had lost interest, and even if the original release dates were met, given how insultingly short the first part was I doubt there would have been any difference. In my opinion, this was just a cash grab -charge too much for too little, then delay it and make it buggy. I'm never buying DLC again until they're fully released. And before I forget, the Lexites are cowards that just ran away. Ahem. Thank you for letting me get that out of my chest, now my recommendation: another reviewer mentions the DLC is less than 8 hours vs. the 90 hours of the full game -that's totally overpriced. Still, since it's now completely released and hopefully fixed, and I liked the (insultingly short) beginning, I can recommend the DLC but only with a deep, deep discount. The one star is for being buggy and late and expensive at its original release -I paid in advance, after all. At a very deep discount it might rate three stars. And to all the persons still mad at Stardock because of their lawsuit -knock it off. Both parties made up a long time ago and licensed their respective properties to each other, what you mad about?

I can't believe how many trolls are on here that don't even own the game, complaining about made up bs. Stardock is a great company. They were the best choice to carry the torch of Star Control 2. The game is incredible and this DLC is well worth it.

This is very much not worth it, much like the base game. Not only are they expecting you to come back to finish your game months later, all they really added was a few voice lines taht repeat over and over and a few more locations to do the same repetatice tasks youve done a million times already.

If we look up how to fuck up a franchise with no redeemable quality, we get Star Control Origins DLC and all. Stardock should be banned from the game's community period overpriced loaded crapware is what you can expect. With mediocre lost to time games that either drag on or end abruptly, and they continue to milk the hell out their games making money off a dead horse.