Elite Dangerous

The absolute top-tier space sim on the market. It was touch-and-go there for a while post Odyssey, but after a huge 2024 and a 2025 that looks to be even better, we are so back! After playing all the other space sims on the market since Elite's launch, nothing can really match the OG. It's absolutely an acquired taste and definitely not made to please everyone, but if immersive space sims are your jam there's no game that offers this level of fidelity, depth, variety and smooth and stable gameplay. Be who you want, do what you want and go where you want in a giant realistic space sandbox and live out all those Firefly and Cowboy Bebop fantasies; its one of those games you that will make you excited to get up in the morning to play more.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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---{ Author }---
☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

This game is BIG, hard, beautiful, interesting and just a really good space flight sim. Such a pity they put resources into making the awful Odyssey expansion rather than making customisable ship interiors with optional companion / crew at half the cost!!

One of the best simulators out there. Exploring the Milky Way feels unique. Get a Hotas to get the best experience.

space is fun
space is cool
so much grind and google though
space space space
space

This game is great when it works, but it has serious problems that hamper your time in the name of "realism" or just plain short-sightedness. The insurance system seriously penalizes failure at upper tier play, discouraging people from even using upper tier ships in many cases. There are countless systems and mechanics with zero in-game explanation that not understanding can seriously hamper your gameplay. The squad system is so barely existent, it seems pointless, mostly because there is no function to form up on a squad leader and move with them, so if you want to follow a squadmate into battle, you have to awkwardly fly near them, figure out which point of interest they warped to, and hurry to warp there before they get too deep into things. And many things are quite expensive, leaving boring cargo transportation and commodity trading as the optimal way of making money, especially since most of the pirate hunting missions have grindy, large numbers of targets or involve fighting while outnumbered, making them difficult to achieve without a squad.

I might come back if they seriously overhaul the squad system to allow movement as a team, but the amount of times I've felt stupid for not understanding systems that the game failed to explain to me (the real killer was not realizing that to scan a nav beacon for nearby pirates for bounty hunting contracts, you have to DEPLOY your sensors first after spending an hour and a half searching for a sensor package that would allow me to scan the nav beacon) has become painful.

This is my first (and probably my last) ten year review. I have roughly over 6000 hours in this including console.

I'll start by saying that this game has the potential to be one of the greatest space sims out there. One of the best things that made this game was the players and the fact that (no matter the size of group) could shape the narrative. This was back when David Braben was in charge. You could still feel the game's heart then. It's more corporate now...

So know this, you can blaze a path, but it is the Devs trail you are blazing, not yours.

Man, Eurotruck simulator looks a lot more different than what i was advertised.

Its a good u-haul simulator and apparently there's combat and exploration but i'm too busy playing intergalactic FEDEX

Elite Dangerous doesn't explain a lot and it is a sandbox.
I was watching one or the other YouTube video and joined the Discord channel to ask questions.
The community always kind and helpful, happy about new players.

Mining Platin is crazy... Making millions and just bought myself the Krait Phantom.
Haven't touched the PowerPlay 2.0 (Factions vs factions, fighting for Systems) but man... I enjoy it a lot.
Sounddesign is 10/10

if you are looking for space combat that is thrilling and engaging, give this a crack. If you are looking for a space sim open sandbox game that lets you be what you want to be, this is the game. And with the Odyssey expansion you can run around on stations and/or planets. lots of fun anyway you play.

5/10 almost too grindy
6/10 cool community
8/10 great graphics
10/10 amazing combat, ship control, milky way exploration

Overall 8/10 great game

Amazing idea of a game, poorly executed and no where near beginner friendly and quite frankly it's BORING. If you have a lot of time to kill you might like this game but 90% of the gameplay was traveling and 10% of it was actually getting to do something fun. Anyone that actually has to work for living will barely be able to make any progress in this game. Had to restart my first play through because I took a cargo mission got some of the cargo and didn't realize I didn't have enough cargo space. I figured hell it'll be fun to do the trips so I'll make 2. Then I saw the quest mentioned I wouldn't get credit if I didn't have the full cargo. So I abandoned the quest. The game didn't warn me that I would be charged for having the cargo in my ship and it put me in debt...with nothing else to my name...can't buy fuel or anything. Could I return the cargo and get rid of the penalty? No. Completely restarted and deleted my save. Finally got to some space combat(the whole reason I got into this game) got about 120k worth of bounties the game said I could claim. I would say the space combat was fun if it wasn't just time spent scanning a bunch of signals trying to find your target and then finally flying to your target following him like a dog chasing it's tail and holding down the pew pew button and pointing in his general direction until he went boom quite mindless. Flying and searching for the target took over twice as long as the actual combat... Spent about an hour trying to find a system using google and inara to find a station to turn in my bounties but could not for the life me turn these in. Although it was in my transactions no station would recognize them. Fine I went to another system to see if I could buy a new ship....turns out docking at another station takes your permit away for the beginner area which isn't really explained that well so I lost access to the beginner area even though I didn't accomplish much and again no warning before docking that this would happen. This station did not have a shipyard..ok finally find a station with a shipyard and make 3 more jumps. Made the trip and low and behold "docking permissions denied" with no mention of that on the star map before I made the 3 jumps to get there. And don't get me started on overshooting your targets when you're super-cruising EVERYTIME. That was my sign that the game isn't for me.

Huge time sink and absolutely nothing to show for it. Yes I tried youtube videos and tutorials but once you actually play the game it's not like what you see with the magic of video editing. If you enjoy activites such as watching paint dry or admiring grass grow then you've found the game for you. The ship flight and combat were not even interesting and that's the main reason I got the game. The immersion could be there if I didn't have to alt-tab every few minutes to one of the many tabs you need to keep open to search up things for the game. At least 5 of these play hours was just me afk googling and trying to figure out what I'm doing. The only thing dangerous about this game is the amount of type spent trying to figure out what you're doing outside of the bare bones tutorial and the only thing elite is the amount of time spent traveling between missions. Don't let my 20 hours fool you I probably got 3 hours of actual gameplay once you factor in the searching for answers outside of the game and traveling.

It's boring. Boring. Very very boring. Immersive, yes, but a game that teleports your consciousness into an SAO style simulation world where all you do is sit in a chair watching paint drying and grass growing would also be very immersive. And would also be very boring. This game isn't that bad, but all you do is the spaceship equivalent of driving a truck. Your only incentive for doing things is to get a bigger truck. What do you do with that bigger truck? The exact same things you were doing before, but farther away!

It's nothing special on a traditional layout, but with a HOTAS setup and VR headset, it is one of the most immersive experiences I have ever had

Dont get me wrong, the game had potential to be good and probably is for game controllers, yet not for pc,its awfull, the steering is so terrible i spend most of the playtime trying to fix it, the tutorial doesnt teach s*** to begin with, i had to press whole keyboard to find a button to accept autolaunch,which was spacebar which i would never guess, after passing the terrible flying guide you stay docked with no clue what to do nor what you are supposed to do. The game looks good beside the glitching station textures,

Brought game
downloaded
launched
asked to make frontier account to play, dont seem to have key to activate???
cant play game 10/10 waste of time wtf
hope refund goes through

Step by step starting the game...

1. You do not have a Frontier Account. Sign Up? Login? Sign Up
2. Sign Up... Your Frontier Account is not linked with your Steam Account. Link? Don't Link? Don't Link
3. Please enter Product Code. What?? Back
4. Your Frontier Account is not linked with your Steam Account. Link? Don't Link? Link
5. Collecting hardware data. Send? Don't Send? Don't Send
6. Microphone in use by Elite Dangerous. Wait what? How and why? o_0 sus
7. Your firewall is blocking bla bla bla. Unblock? No.
8. (surprisingly the game starts up) Generating system of planets. Zzz... A few minutes later...
9. First thing I see, 'Buy pre-made ship?' Ooo0o0o0hh micro transaction!
10. Create your avatar. Done
11. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use. Name already in use.
12. Uninstall. Refund.

This is worse than Ubisoft or Playstation Network. Link account. Opening firewall. Sending hardware data. etc etc etc.

Might as well just ask me for my banking details while you go to town on my @$$.

How's the game? I dont know. Never played it. Already ruined my mood right off the bat.

Back to the store to look for another less annoying and invasive game to play.

-Doesnt respect my time as a player. Everything takes 10 times longer than it should.
Small annoying cooldowns/waiting periods/animations make it so 1 hour session is 45 minutes of waiting for stuff to happen.
-Ground gameplay is extremely junky (empyrion galactic survival level of junk).
-Looks like a game from 2005 (a lot worse than on trailers) but drops frames constantly.
-Input settings are extremely overcomplicated yet lack basic options.
-Ship to ship combat is a DPS check instead of being skill based and fun. It's slow and boring.
-Constantly spams at you to buy their microtransaction currency despite being a paid game.
I could go on forever about how bad this game is at so many aspects, even though i played it for 90 minutes tops.

Refunded, but they should be paying me for wasting my time.

This is a highly complex game that's more like a flight sim. The game itself does a pretty awful job of teaching new players how to get around. Even the tutorials are difficult. It looks really cool, but it's just not for me.

My playtime is me trying to figure out how the F**k to play this game, I looked up videos and hows to online and restarted and cleared my save multiple times but this has to be the most frustrating game ever, I tried to ask for a refund when my playtime was 5 hrs but steam refused so now I have to write a negative review about this game, I tried to give it a shot and tried different mission/exploration but there is still a big learning curve that will takes months to years to learn. If your a beginner and plan to leave the area you cannot return back because it's for beginners, I didn't know this and I spent hours stacking up on missions only for me not able to return back, just a waste of time. This is on my list for the worst game I played so far.

Terrible game. The fact I spent more time on google than the tutorial is weird to me. The moment I finally figure something out, there's six other game mechanics to have to research while being shot at by enemy ships to collect my cargo on a mission that said "0 THREAT". Which was the whole point I took the thing was to ease in to it and learn what I could safely. Difficult just to be difficult. Some may like that and that's great, but wow.

Literally nub player here. I bought the game on Christmas sale for ~8 euros, dlc included, so I was set back with 2 beers (not the end of the world). I thought what the hell, it can't be worse than Loadfield. All I wanted was a shooter, in space if possible, maybe with some cool ships and a bit of real exploration. I launched it and did the on-foot tutorial (not knowing I'm doing the on-foot tutorial) and although it looked interesting I felt like I was somewhere in HL2 in terms of graphics. After finishing the tutorial and being dumped in the starter space city I managed to exit the game and optimize the graphic settings. Restarted and deliberately done the full space flight tutorial from the tutorials menu. Man, I can't say it was that hard but damn, it felt so uncomfortable. No joystick, no nothing. Just keyboard and mouse. The game looked absolutely better after putting the correct graphic settings for my rig but damn the space controls felt... almost uncontrollable. Managed not to crash my ship, managed to finish the tutorial, NOT managed how to shoot the minigun even though I was able to understand the secondary weapon is bound to mouse2. Killed everything with weapon no.1 aka the laser beam. Did more tutorials because I felt like John Snow, I knew NOTHING. Stood like a moron for minutes in the basic flight when asked to tilt my ship with the mouse until I realized I was in free look mode aka mouse3. Did the mining tutorial, realizing that if I have to scoop every time I mine something I may loose my freaking mind. Did the manual landing tutorial and did it well, even though it took longer than expected. Decided I will always use the auto land/launch from now on. All in all, tutorials left me more confused than I'd expect so I decided to go all in and see what the actual game has to offer. To my surprise before I could leave the starting city I had to do the full space flight tutorial all over again, because this time a NPC asked me to do it before I could access the ship dock elevator. This time around I managed to shoot the minigun, who would've thought it had a spin-up time and I had to keep mouse2 down before it actually started shooting. But while fighting the drones I kinda forgot the ship moves better when also pressing A & D, so this time around it took me even longer to maneuver and turn the ship around. Frustration grew, but looking back at it, that was definitely my fault. In the end I managed to actually fly my ship for the first time for real, then land back to the starting city. Then wasted a ton of time trying to figure out how to access my inventory. For REAL! I had to GOOGLE how to OPEN MY INVENTORY, even after going though all the keybinds. That was the last straw. If I have to google a simple freaking task as opening my backpack - that means everything else will be much more frustrating. I have almost 2000 hours in No Man's Sky, don't even get me started about EVE(ry phycho) Online, but this game is a different beast. I'm not saying it's a bad game, because I literally know 0.01% of what it has to offer, but the learning curve for a beginner is very discouraging. It was easy to find the shop though.
So, if you're new and excited, all I can say is take your time. I may not abandon it but after the tutorials I'm at a bit of a loss. Not sure if it's worth the time investment in learning it via google. That's why I can't give it a thumbs up for now, sorry.

Elite Dangerous:

• The galaxy is massive. You’ll never run out of stars to explore—or ways to get hopelessly lost.
  
• Flying your ship is the perfect mix of “I got this!” and “Why am I upside down?”
  
• Docking feels like an Olympic event. Stick the landing, and you’re a hero. Miss it, and you’re a pancake.
  

• Content updates are slower than an unshielded hauler full of gold in pirate space.
  
• The grind isn’t just real—it’s practically the main character.
  
[*] Four years of waiting for something new, and all I got was my ship’s paint peeling off from boredom.

I can't connect to the game after creating my pilot license. Tried reconnecting through my lan cable, resigning my account, and even creating a new account to play but I always get the "Orange Sidewinder" error. My internet is not even that bad yet the game won't even let me join a mode to begin with. I loved the game's concept and mechanics and watched a lot of videos about it, was getting tired of playing No Man's Sky on my Switch and this looked like a refresher, but I never expected it would have connection issues to mine.

I am not saying the game is bad overall, only my experience is with the game servers.

Terrible controls, the interface is the opposite of user friendly and so is the gameplay.

The starter suit doesn't have a slot for a primary weapon, of course the game won't tell you this, you have to waste your time to first fail in combat, then google how to solve the problem.
The combat itself feels incredibly rusted (both on land and in space), I've seen better flight responsiveness in mobile games. The ground enemies are bullet sponges with AI so terrible it might compete with that of Redfall.

The controls on everything are downright terrible;
The ship is controlled by the mouse, both the roll and yaw are within a few degrees of mouse rotation, this means you will spin constanty until you rebind the controls to somthing reasonable for human use.
The cars control scheme is so scuffed that the keys for throttle (Forgot to mention that both the spaceships and cars don't stop moving then you release the throttle keys, yes it is as comfortable as you think) are 'Q' and 'E", who the hell uses those for controlling the speed of the vehicle!?
The hotkeys for the suit are just as bad, the interface has zero hints as to how you're supposed to access any of your items. At least the movement is set to WASD, these devs could very well create a character control set never seen before in the history of gaming...

I don't understand who would want this convoluted mess of a game, in the entire 5 hours I've played it I've felt nothing but confusion and frustration at how terrible the entire experience was.
I imagine people who play this are just in it for the "immersion" of a space sim and don't actually care about any of the qualities one would expect from a game as a form of interactive media, as well as therever this could be considered a good one with how it lacks many of those qualities..
Well, it's their time and money, I won't argue with how they choose to spend them.

Thank you Frontier Developers, I regret buying the deluxe edition of the game, as well as, wasting almost 5 hours of my life on it.

I've enjoyed over 500 hours on the PS4/PS5 and I've recently migrated to the PC. I was originally disappointed they stopped supporting PS and made the move to PC only, but I'm glad I was able to continue playing none the less. The inclusion of Odyssey adds some interesting extra game play.

I didn't play this for 16 hours.
This game sucks; the tutorial lies to you about the gameplay, game's full of micro transactions, nothing tells you how to scan planets or explains the judicial system. I accepted a mission, spent half my money on a suit it needed for some reason, struggled for like an hour to figure out how to fly to the planet which was just named a bunch of gibberish numbers, got there, couldn't get permission to land, so I landed far away and went on foot, only to be scanned by guards, killed, and my crime was "crime." They took the remaining half of my starting money, and I still have a fine to pay that's more than my remaining money.

Also, my ship is running out of fuel, and I have no idea where to go to refuel.
Every time I bring my weapons out, my ship looses all power, and I'm dead in the water.

I have no idea where to go. I tried landing on a random ice planet, but it won't let me go below orbit.

This game is very pretty, beautiful HUD, but game play is some of the worst I've seen.

Oh, and the game is laden with micro-transactions worse than any FTP game I've seen, but this game isn't free, so WTF?

I want my money back.

I was fooled by the tags that were displayed. I thought this was a Singleplayer game without the use of an internet connection, but it requires an internet connection because the game needs to be connected to the Frontier Server in order to play this game. I also had some trouble creating a Frontier account the first time I launched the game so i had to use VPN to create my account which was weird.

I'm sorry, but i have to refund the game. I preferred playing NMS which i can play without internet connection if i were happens to go out without internet.

game is simply overcomplicated, no proper tutorials. everything is a struggle. thoughtless developers.

The game feels very unfinished, even 10 years after release. In-game information is terrible. The game relies heavily on player-generated web sites. Want to know which wares a station trades or equipment it has? Use a third-party site. Want to know what a mission actually wants you to do, because half the mission descriptions are incomplete or wrong? Use the wiki. Learning to play the game consists mostly of learning to work around all the traps caused by unfinished work. It's just annoying.

Flew for an hour to get to a planet, got security scanned and the guard didn't like that i was on the same planet as him. Get shot, presumably t-bagged, shipped off to space Detroit, and charged for the experience. 10/10 Just like real life

Game is getting better and better, skip the negative reviews and just try it out. Get the Deluxe Edition on sale. And a huge update coming this year.

Maybe I'm just getting too old for games but this thing is so effing complicated it is not pleasant to play.

People say it's a grind, but it's not that bad. I'm exactly 100 hours in and I've done most aspects of the game. I've completed all the Fed and Empire ranks to level 12, so I've unlocked all the ships. I have around 15 ships (including the most expensive in the game - the Cutter). I've done asteroid mining, transportation, explored outside the bubble, and I have 1.5 billion credits in the bank. I've unlocked around 15-20 engineers and most of my ships are engineered to level 3 or 5 on fundamentals like FSD, shield generator, shield boosters, lasers, cannons, thrusters, power plant, etc. I have enough materials and money that i will be able to go fully engineered on my next ship build - a combat Corvette. Then I imagine i will go for a fleet ship or wait until system colonisation is released in 2025. I'll eventually do both!

One top tip for money making - form a wing with friends and share your missions with one another once you are back at base. You can make a mint doing that at easily 250 million per hour in a hazardous res zone with a 4 person wing team and half decent medium ships. You can also make a quick 50 million doing a silver 400-500 units mining run missions.

As to the game, I love the realism of this over games like NMS, Star Citizen, Eve, etc. And there is nothing like being the first person to discover an earth like planet and getting your name on it. :)

great game, it really got a lot better, it was always cool and felt great to play, but content was a little lacking, but now there is a ton of fun stuff to do, a bunch of great player driven storylines and it seems a lot more is incoming, big recommend!

After nearly an hour of trying to get controllers to work correctly I gave up. Apparently this is has been an issue off and on for 4 years or so. The game looks amazing so it sucks that I had to get a refund.

Undoubtedly one of the best open world space sims around. Just started but the game is beautiful. It's come along way since the wire frame graphics I recall from my youth.

there's some fun stuff in that game like fighting pirates mainly, but everything else is just a slow boring crawl. you spend lots of time dealing with the terrible transport mechanic that is supercruise and in the loading screens called "hyperspace".

this game asks way too much time to do anything. you can easily sink 2 hours without accomplishing any objective.

doing anything on the planet surface is just a pain. the AI is just a hair away from shooting you on sight even if you're friendly.

I liked it for awhile but just seeing this made me furious!

Frontier SW, if I pay for the damn game, let me fking paint my ship the way I want and don't charge me extra for it!

Don't do cancerous micro-transactions just for a function that should be basic!
f*ckers

This is what I despise most in games today! I buy the damn game and they still have micro-transactions in it! SMFH

Let me tell you about one of my favorite games that I have played on and off for many years.

1) The game is visually stunning. Even the most desolate rocks out in the universe still look amazing, and the sky-box is down right mesmerizing, with every star in the sky actually moving positions in the sky as you move from start system to start system.
2) The game is massive, a complete 1:1 scale of the Milky Way Galaxy. If you ever wanted to travel to Sagittarius A and see the black hole at the center of the universe, you can do so; just expect to take a few hours of flight time to get there because it ain't close. (To set expectations though, black holes in the game are the one thing lacking visually and I hope one day they re design them)
3) The game has a lot to do. Want to be a bounty hunter? Go do it! Want to be a pirate? Go do it! You want to mine ore from asteroids and/or haul thousands of tons of materials or trade goods across the galaxy in a massive fleet carrier? Go do it!

On top of all the above, we are getting the ability to colonize new star systems soon which will give the players the ability to build (pre-designed) space stations and star ports in currently unoccupied systems, bringing a whole new way to play the game in 2025; not to mention the possibility that a new alien conflict is likely to happen in the future after we start expanding outward so there is that to look forward to as well.

If I have to give one caveat about the game, it's that the game has no structure. It is a sandbox game through and through, so if the idea of coming up with your own objectives in an open ended game doesn't sound like fun to you, you may want to stay away. Otherwise, if that all sounds great to you, welcome to the galaxy commander! o7

One of my favorite space explorations next to NMS, though Def A huge learning curve when jumping from NMS, still great game, and glad dev still support pc verson.

The game is fun but unless you REALLY enjoy alt-tabbing every 5 minutes to go google what you're doing, This game isn't for you. The game has several complex systems overlaid on top of each other to simulate a space-exploration sim but really you're managing a heads up display and a star chart as well as 30 different reddit/wiki tabs.

The only tutorial the game provides you with is how to fly and how your guns work in groundside combat, which is fine if the information for LITERALLY anything else was inside of a menu in game or if windows had an optional help button for navigation. Instead you're required to fumble around with a single save-slot to your account, all of the cosmetics are tied to the earnable end game currency - which also resets between character, and potentially just waste 40 hours before you actually have a concept of an understanding of what to do in this game. There are two kinds of people who play elite dangerous, People who enjoy space-exploration simulation games, and people who enjoy reading reddit threads. You cannot go into this game with prior experience of another simulation game because most of the rules are thrown out the window for arbitrary complex systems that aren't present in most other space faring sims. If you want my brutally honest opinion - If you just want to explore a universe, pick up no mans sky. If you're into the brutal economy and large-scale intergalactic corporate warfare, Go play EVE. This game is for very specific people and it shows by the stark difference in peoples' play time. Your friends who own this game either have 400+ hours or 40 minutes.

I like this game. It's not super engaging, but it is relaxing and there is quite a bit to see in the galaxy. Gaining credits and buying and modding new ships is really fun. The one criticism I have is about the premium currency, or ARX. You can only get 400 free ARX in a week, which isn't enough to buy anything unless you save for months. So if you want to make cosmetic changes to your ships be prepared for a super long grind, or spend some real money. It takes some fun out of the game. Overall it's an enjoyable game, and way worth the sale price.

Cant even play it anymore. Every time I try and login now it kicks me for failure to authenticate. Its already one thing that there is a secondary launcher you have to deal with but the authentication error is stupid especially after already playing for 15 hours on steam.

advice for new players. After leaving the pilot federation, go to the alliance systems. The Alliance pays more for missions than anyone else. Use sites like inara.cz to find what you need.

Edit: After 20 more hours of playtime, I think this game deserves a positive review as much as it deserves negative review. There's a lot of grinding involved for any amount of progress, but it does have the potential to be a lot of fun for people who like exploring star systems and upgrading ships. I can't really recommend the combat, it's just frustrating to me more than anything, but the game overall does have appeal despite the flaws I've listed below.

I started this game on PS5, then learned the console versions are no longer supported. Of course the devs have no problems continuing to sell the outdated game with no obvious indication of its abandonment. I should have taken the hint right there, but I gave it another chance and bought it on Steam since the PC version is still receiving updates.

Odyssey's intro is completely different to the vanilla experience on console. Seems cool. I get out of the initial planet base raid thing, but can't access my ship until I've completed a simulation of the original tutorial. Okay, fine, I need a refresher anyway. I complete that and take a delivery mission from the mission terminal where I'm at, go out of the starter system to complete it but then I discover I can't return to the system to turn in the quest because it's permit locked. I guess that's reputation based, and also a way to prevent new players from getting ganked, but it comes across as different gameplay features knotting together to create weird inconveniences and a rough experience.

Keyboard bindings are not really intuitive at all. The button mapping while using a controller on PC is different from the console version's mappings. Some of the controls are explained, a lot of them are not. Of course the same could be said for most of the game. It says -- "Hey, here's a ship, here are some basic controls and the foggiest idea of various objectives... go have fun." I can appreciate that approach to game design, but there's obviously a steep curve to overcome before the fun starts. For me at least, I don't think the payout is worth it.

I'm sure it still holds a lot of value for veteran players, but sadly I believe this game is past its prime.

I really tried, But this game is terrible. Game breaking bugs, Bad tutorials, Bad controls and bad gameplay. I have played 82 hours watched lots of tutorials and game play tips. And still nothing. Why people like this game is beyond me. I don't mind putting some time in to learn a game but this is terrible. My tips to improve this game. Make better in game tutorials. Explain how things work in game give the joystick buttons names not numbers nobody understands this. Fix your bugs I see people having the same bugs 5 years ago and they are still in here. If i keep bugs this long in my programs I get fired. Great for the people that love this game. But after 82 hours I quit.

Have you ever wanted to play Euro Truck Simulator but always thought "Dang, I wish I could just push the cruise control button so that the game could play itself for a few hours while I did something more fun"?

Well I've got the perfect game for you my friend!

Seriously thought, just get any of the X games, you'll have way more fun.

If your Looking for a Star Citizen like that wont french fries your pc this is the game. Its Awesome for us wanted to explore the stars and pop some ships. And with odyssey It elevates the exoeriencea notch.

This game reminds me of my wife. it makes me overspend, It keeps me from playing other games, doesn't respect my time, deep down it hates me a bit. But somehow I really love it.