If it wasn't for the game being free on amazon prime gaming, i probably wouldn't have heard about it, but so i gave it a shot. First off, the art style is amazing and the atmosphere is pretty unique. However the gameplay loop just isn't that great. It's normal for Roguelite games to be repetitive, but here it's just not entertaining after a while. You go from ship to ship shooting and looting to find parts to make upgrades to keep shooting and looting, ship after ship. There is some variety in weapons and enemies, but the main gameplay stays the same. No matter what weapon you are using and what you upgrade there is no fundamental change in the way the fights work. There is no story to keep you motivated, there are no big surprises and despite the "procedural generation" a lot of the ships look and feel the same. It's fun for a while, but unless you can enjoy the repetitive grind you will probably stop playing the game before finishing it.
One of the best, although also one of the hardest Metroidvanias of all time. Visuals and soundtrack are stunning and the world is huge. If you like the genre and are up for a challenge, it's a must have.
The description and especially the trailers make you expect something entirely different to what the game actually is. The game is neither packed with action and fights, nor does it offer significant strategic depth. You will spend a lot of time simply waiting for stuff to happen or take a lot of time to do very little. The UI feels very clunky and overall the game just doesn't feel thought out. Despite overshooting the minimum required specs by a massive margin, the game crashed repeatedly and stuttering is a frequent occurrence. The story and characters are incredibly generic and stereotypical, so much so that they border on satirical, however they both serve no purpose other than a backdrop so this could be overlooked. As is traditional for Paradox games, you can spend a lot more money on rather little content in the form of DLCs. Unless there is a heavy discount and you're a big fan of mech games, probably go buy something else.
I bought the game in a bundle for 1€, which i think is a fair price, given that it's almost a "freemium" type of game. While the base game is worth it in a vacuum (no pun intended) and offers enough to be a stand alone game, it's blatantly obvious that the entire game was created around the business model of milking the fans by adding more and more DLCs. Theoretically this wouldn't be that much of a problem, if the content of the DLCs wouldn't obviously be things that all could have been in the game from the beginning and the prices wouldn't be so insanely high. Seriously 4€ ON SALE for nothing more than a Species Pack is almost mobile game pricing. Overall actually not a bad game, but a business model i absolutely don't want to support.
It's a really nice and relaxing game, but the title isn't exaggerating with the "short" part. The game is about 2-3 hours long if you help every single NPC and really take your time exploring every last bit of the island. Also the soundtrack is really nice.
Full disclosure: i bought the game on steam and refunded it. As other people have stated, it's a fairly decent RPG game, but not really a worthy successor of Baldur's Gate. However it absolutely shows that it's an early access game, for which the 60€ asking price is an absolute joke. Throwing a game clearly miles away from being finished onto the market for a price higher than most AAA titles are charging, is a practice nobody should ever support. The point of early access is to make the game available early for fans at a significantly lower price, since they are buying an unfinished product, but want to support it. Wait for the full release, what do you have to lose?
