Here's the TLDR version of my review: I'm enjoying this game, both for its roguelike qualities and its combats. Few games out there can give you both a good spacecraft piloting experience AND an interestingly challenging AI to fight. Everspace does it. Now, if you don't enjoy the "grinding to get to know the game bit by bit while unlocking new options slash getting better" aspect of roguelike games, maybe there other titles for you in the space sims genre. I personally don't agree with someone who says this game is too hard. It is hard, yes, but I don't feel like the AI is cheating. Plus I feel like I will soon be able to level up nice perks that will give me the survivability I need to dominate. Rather, I think the AI was well designed and is good at piloting while shooting, as space pilots have to be. Took me a bit of time before I figured patterns and learned more about who to shoot first and how, but once I did I started having way better games which allowed me to explore the systems more carefully. And once I started taking my time a bit more, the universe started to be more interesting (sometimes even in bad ways which killed me !!!). This game doesn't feel like an Alpha or Beta and I can't wait for more "life" to be injected in it through more quests and events ! Kudos to the developpers so far !! I even start to think that this game might be good enough to join my "top space sims of all time" ranking (so far only Wing Commander 1 & 2, Freelancer and a couple of Star Wars X-Wing games were able to do so) ... I'm gonna stop this here and go right back in.
