forcing me to write a re3view every time i play a game that i love really REALLY upsets me. please fix soon lest i buy my games on steam.
The settings in this game are beautiful. The controls are intuitive and the combat well flushed out. It even has a decent narritive the helps keep you engaged. The possible ship choices are a bit limited but that's not a game breaker. However, the game starts to fall apart at its self-defeating mechanics. Like any game, you push through tough fights in order to stay alive and be rewarded. But in Everspace, you're not rewarded until you die. As in you literally do not have the opportunity to upgrade your ship until your current ship explodes. You gain money by playing the game but you're not able to really spend it until you die & upgrade your ship; and anything you don't spend, you won't get to keep - you'll lose it when you respawn. The same goes for the crafting based upgrades. Ignoring that adding a crafting mechanic to this kind of game doesn't add any depth, in Everspace it has been made into a time sink for temporary upgrades, really just creating an uneeded, unending grind because once you ultimately die in order to upgrade your ship, you'll lose all of your crafting ingrediants & start back at step one. It's an interesting dynamic for self created difficulty but this system of leveling up on death rewards the player for failure and fails to reward the player for success. I do think some people will really love this but as an objective product, it's a major flaw.
Started game, had no tutorial. Tried to fiddle around with ship settings but that didn't really explain anything. Somehow lost a crew memeber in that process. Left the starting site for my first mission, got there, & suddenly the game loaded an instance & took away my control of the ship. Couldn't steer & my ship crashed into some rocks. This game needs ALOT of work. Like the concept though - good luck.
