Empyrion - Galactic Survival

far better than any other space sandbox games where you can do anything and don't get attached to the story line like in the no man's sky and most importantly, this game get's updates and bugfixes continuosly.

Laughably bad. Looks like a bunch of free assets slapped together to make the next "10 minute winner" indie game competition.

I did enjoy this game for the state that it was in, but I wouldn't recommend playing it for anyone who was thinking about it for this one reason. My friend was banned for 80yrs by the developer. Get this, we were talking in our group chat about problems with the game. Complaining if you must know on issues we had with the game. My friend happened to make a comment about the devs. Then instantly he was booted from the game and told he was banned for from the game for 80 years for his comment. Like the creep who made this game must have been some sort of peeping tom. Because he was literally monitoring what we thought was a private conversation between ourselves. We were not in global chat, we were using our faction chat talking with each other. The dev didn't like our opinions so he abused his position to make his childish point. I will never play anything from that company again. There are plenty of other options out there that I can get my entertainment from besides playing a game from a developer that annoints himself king of his digital world. He can go F(%$ himself.

I just hit 3k hours in this game and thought it was high time I wrote a review. Needless to say I love the game and have played it for many years. It has changed so much over the years and I love where it is at now. The developers have put a lot of work into the game and are still actively working on it.

Food poisoning and bleeding simulator. Kenshi's world is more forgiving.

7 Days To Space Engineers if it wasn't so bloody complicated you need a PhD in Rocket Science. It IS good don't get me wrong and I did play it once back in Alpha and refunded it cos it was looking absolutely horrid. Dear Developers, your game looks good but I hate to admit that the competition looks better already so even though you upped your game already and yes it is a Voxel based game, SE2 is one as well, is no excuse to be slacking in the graphics department.

That being said Empyrion already looks a mile better than what it used to look like. It plays relatively well but I think it would benefit from some Story focussed Scenarios and some CPU/RAM optimization which unfortunately is a sickness all Voxel based Games suffer from.

Regarding the Story focus, as a VA myself I'd be GLAD to lend my voice and creative abilities to the devs cos this is a game I initially gave up hope on and now start to believe in myself as I can see that these devs are MAKERS. I mean they just up and went and did their game anyway, contrary to the harsh criticism, taking it into account - honestly it must have been incredibly hard work to get there and now it's surprisingly good. Some games in the Space game genre aren't offering things that Empyrion has and if these guys leverage that well enough? Ooooho, this could be a real banger soon!

But enough of the coulds and woulds - Empyrion in its current state needs WORK. It's SOLID but it needs WORK. I can imagine the multiplayer experience being kind of fun but as a sandbox game it lacks exactly what SE lacks as well - direction. Sure you have missions and factions but nudging the players into feeling like they got many more options than just your average survival and faction grind tasks is more than just planting Quest NPCs into the world and telling the player via popups there's a frequency nearby.

Meaning it lacks engagement but not as much as other sandbox games. It's going somewhere with it, for sure but in its current state you need much more patience to cope with it.

I've played this game multiple times since its inception for long periods of time. I've made custom scenarios, setup dedicated servers for playing, etc. It's really a very enjoyable game that will pull you into it for days at a time.

Honestly, through all the survival games I've played, I just cant like this one, heres my reasons why.

1: The UI is clunky, often cluttered, and many functions are not immediately clear.
2: The tutorial is not only full of mind numbing text walls, but VERY poorly streamed youtube videos that will play like a slide show and remain unresponsive to any attempts to turn down the ear splitting max volume.
3: While pretty, the environment leaves much to be desired in the way of interaction, maybe I'm unlucky, but to spawn in, have 1 Poi within 3Km of the drop pod and maybe 3 underground veins [2 of which were silicon] the aprox. 27 minutes I spent just roaming with the scanner out to only ever ping those same nodes over 1Km away was disappointing.
4: Withing 10 minutes I found water, and died to it because apparently once your head dips under, swimming is not an option, though more to the point, neither is climbing a mild slope to walk out, your character wants to die and be free of this hell, help them.
5: The voice for the tutorial. I bet you'd expect 'oh I hate ai blah blah.' no... it's just ear gratingly awful to listen to and made me personalty want to take an ice pick to both drums.
6: interactions and their confusing introductions. Why is shift-f practically a multi-tool interaction? It's used for eating food, using just about any expendable resource from your inventory, oh and... picking up place machines... I easily had an immediate issue of running back to queue up some gear, only to accidentally scoop up the crafter and have to drag it from my inventory again. thats to say nothing of the strange way it implaments 'take all'.
7: Debuffs and conditions. I don't know if maybe it's just part of an invisable clock or something, but I ate my energy bars and a few vegetables while running around and my character seemed fine with that. Maybe 10 or so minutes later, I suddenly have indigestion with no warning, my hunger gets tanked, and I'm unable to do anything as even the few herbal plants I had on me didnt cure it and died. granted I can just spawn right back near the thing, but I generaly deem it a bad thing, when I have to ask why I died, and have no way to get any concrete answer.

All in all, this is my personal experience, it may differ from yours in a number of ways depending on your starting options but thats that. You may see I don't even have 1 hour of playtime, and personally that's my warning against this game. I can usually get enthralled into games like these within the first 10 minutes and find something to do that will lead me on a journey for hours, and even if I only play that game for say 6 hours I'd consider it fine as I'd likely go back to it, or at least that's my thought process. Unless this games suddenly overhauled from the ground up I will likely never touch it again.

I am sure the devs have worked hard on this game, and I do applaud that they've put in the effort to put their ideas out there, but it's simply not for me. For those who enjoy this game, more power to you, and always reach for the stars.

Game has tons of glitches as of 030325 the instead of fixing the original the company makes new DLC's that work even worse. The workshop is the ONLY thing saving this game and because of the ship designers this game has a great open world to fly massive ships of all kinds in. The game is very time consuming I have over 380 hrs and I don't even like this game.

So little warning that something about to kill you - you just die. So many brutal game play mechanics

I really like these type of games, but the controller interface is so clunky and counter-intuitive. Of the 2.3 hours I have played, I estimate 1.2 of that was trying to figure out how to get it to do what I want to do next. I will try mouse/keyboard next and update my review if it makes it any better.

Great game!!

Character development could improve a lot, buying skills with credits makes no sense.

There is a missing opportunity to use exploration and reverse engineering. You should learn how to make ships and base assets by exploring different planets and finding shipwrecks and buildings, then disassemble their parts a number of times to unlock the corresponding skill.

Still, had a great time playing it!

only limited by your imagination when it comes to building ships, easier to deal with than space engineers, but graphics are not quite as good, still a lot of fun though

A really good, involved game, but the tutorial needs a lot of work. The tutorial is not really relevant to game play, and it's boring. The game is great.

this is the only game i need. it's like legos, but also you can build a lego space ship and go to space, and then explore and endless galaxy, collecting and upgrading your lego spaceship. and its got fps combat, which isnt great, but adds to the world building. i havent even explored half the aspects of the mods, which are more combat focused. one draw back is the building is somewhat limited. more "blocks" of sharper angles/curves would be amazing. TL:DR perfect balance of survival and building, in a space setting (like NoMansSky but more Legos)

something like that

Empyrion is an extremely janky game with a steep learning curve, but once you get past the initial hurdle and it all clicks, it's an amazing experience. You'll have to look past some flaws like the rather lackluster ground AI and enemies spawning out of thin air inside POIs. There's also loads of design flaws in the mission system that require very specific steps, which can lead to you breaking them, but luckily the devs recognized this and let you skip objectives. A big flaw which also affects mods, is the fact that some updates will require starting new games in order for new content to show up in your game. Despite the flaws, the ship/base building, world design and feeling of exploration are great. Designing my own original ship was really fun.

The visuals can be a mixed bag where it sometimes looks great but then you get wonky looking character models or stretched textures all over the place. Performance is alright overall, but the new UCH bases in the experimental build have some performance issues for me.

I've played through the vanilla main story missions and the new UCH missions in the experimental build and I enjoyed most of it, but some missions were a bit tedious, though most of them were fun. The last UCH mission has a bugged section though, which makes it incompletable unless you noclip through some locked doors. There was a distinct lack of space battles against other vessels in the missions though.

The survival aspects mostly matter in the beginning or when you get stranded somewhere, like when my ship got shot up by some patrolling drones while I was inside a POI, which forced me to build a base and collect resources to build a new ship and get off that stinking rock.

Overall it's a good game if you can look past its flaws. Lots of missions, custom scenarios and RP opportunities to keep you busy.

very buggy and graphics are meuh

WARNING: Constant fishing pop up prevents normal playing without providing personal information through email.

Please optimize. I used to play this game a lot with my friend, his setup is not the best. Recent updates ruined it.

This games bugs are ridiculous, you frequently will lose your stuff, spawn in places that you didnt even leave in, and now my end game save just got erased. Do not buy this game if you want to have fun. Get no mans sky or something instead. Its not worth the mental preassure this game puts on you.

edit: oh and btw all of these bugs I could fix in a day, and thats not me not knowing what im talking about, Im an indie dev that also uses unity. so, do what you will with that info, these devs make mojang look like the most productive devs in the world

Great game. Played it with my son on our own server. Had a lot of fun with it and tried out some mods like reforged eden 2. Reforged eden 2 made the game more enjoyable. Runs fine on linux.

This game splits the difference between Dual universe and Space engineers. I do like and have played both those games quite a bit. Dual Universe has gone off the rails as a playable game. This game is very playable and fun with just enough building to make something unique. Not as deep as either of the other games with destructable enviornments, but has things like neutral pois and prey animals. Numerous types of animals for different enviornments. NPC's all have reputation for you to earn of waste. Over all a very well balanced game with an active modder community on par with 7 days to die.

You want to go into some action ? go do a POI.
You want to farm and be cosy ? Chill around the galaxy or on different planets
You want to build something ? Have fun to build a space station or a planet base (with some defend-your-castle action !)
You want to trade you way to richess, go on you have a multitude of NPC who want to trade wit ya ! with mission and all !
From puzzle solving to creative building, you got everything you want into one game.

There's still no walking on moving ships all these years later. There's janky workarounds but I can't recommend a space game where you get clipped through the walls of a ship if it's moving and you're not sitting in a seat.

Well, right out of the box....this game isn't tutorial friendly....i had to 'hunt' for the first unit to create for about 5 minutes rather than being shown a "flashing" button that would make me think "click here to find it". I have a survival tent, i throw it down and it's there....I stand in front of it and there's no reaction to the interaction button, no "open" or "unzip" prompt or no noticing my presence to open the door.

I don't like using the word "stupid" because it's a mean word but when people seemingly go out of their way to make simple things stressful, i think the word applies.

There should be some sort of 'voiced' AI leading players into how things work and giving explanation windows (while speaking it out) to 'ease' us into the game and how it functions. Instead this game has got attitude with a "read it and find out' approach on it.

I get it that these coders make a game, they get loyal followers that they are used to kissing their buts and telling them how 'brilliant' their game is but this game isn't brilliant, isn't friendly, and expects people to know exactly where to look for guidance and that's not my idea of fun.

Challenging is supposed to come "after" you know the rules....not on where to find the rules and what to read to know how the game works..

'nuff said?

As much as i want to like it. AI are dumb, buidling ships isnt fun due to unorganized menus and plenty more

In my Steam account, I have more hours (1843) in Empyrion than any other game, and I really don't understand why. It's not a particularly gorgeous game (the janky creatures on the planets, the weapon models, etc are not spectacular by any stretch) nor is the coding particularly polished with more bugs than a corpse in the tropics. But the mix of survival crafting/building with epic space battles has me hooked.

I think the main attraction is that you build spaceships block-by-block to battle the NPCs for loot and glory and that the individuality in each ship you can build is virtually limitless. Little scout ships through to massive carriers and battle cruisers, even huge hovercraft tanks are within the scope of this game and it is a clever mix of simple aesthetics and advanced engineering which create the unique complexity of the game.

The trick is to make each ship capable of taking on more difficult enemies with a mix of thrust characteristics, hull and shield strength, and sheer firepower, all governed by the limitations of power generation and CPU. It all gets very complex, which adds depth to the game, but you don't have to be good at any of that stuff to get the most out of the game. This complex building system has spawned a ship crafting community which publishes their incredibly diverse creations via the game's Workshop and subscribing to them gives you access to the 'blueprint' - you just need to feed the materials into the in-game factory and presto! The ship is yours.

This is my preferred way of getting through the game as, well, I'm a bit shit at building ships good enough to get through to the later stages of space exploration and combat. And I just don't have the designer's eye that some of the great builders do. But if you have a lust for replicating your favourite Star Wars or Star Trek ship (there are those in the community who have achieved incredible versions) and have half a mathematical brain, then you'll love this game. There is also a 'creative' mode where you can craft, test and refine your wild ideas with unlimited resources then 'publish' it to bring it into the game.

Me? I enjoy the community as much as the gameplay. There are servers where you can team up with people and cooperatively conquer the universe and I enjoy 'seasons' of the game where the server is reset and you start all over again. Or you can solo through missions, exploring different systems and planets, engaging enemies in atmosphere or in space, building a trade network, creating incredible land bases or fleets of spaceships with different roles such as asteroid mining, in-atmosphere base assault or taking on the deadliest enemies in space. There are also subscribable scenarios created by the modding community such as the popular Reforged Eden which takes the vanilla game to the next level with different ship components and characteristics.

But as mentioned at the start, there are gripes. The vanilla game is buggy, mainly because the developer is a small and somewhat insular operation without the budget to fix everything. And they don't play as nice as they might with the modding community, which is a shame because Empyrion could be collective greatness if they all pulled together.

Overall, Empyrion may turn some off with its unrefined graphics and on-ground combat, but if you can get past that you will be rewarded with incredible gameplay depth and creative freedom to make it one of the most addictive survival crafters.

Playing Multi-Player with 3 others and one person is in my house, his rig hosts the server. Sometimes the friends can see the server and other times we cannot, only if we do not accept the steam invite and just launch the game and go to the friends tab, most of the time it shows for some of us. Most of the time I cannot see the server. If you accept the steam invite, then it will launch and directly connect you to the server but you will get an error that you are dead. if you press continue, then you just stay on the load error screen and then you lose control of your mouse and have to open the task manager to kill out empyrion.

install reforged 2 mod, else makes no sense to buy

Stopped to playing it because of a very dumb decision of the developers: you can't switch off the version overlay on the top left screen. There is always shown a pure white letters the version of the game and the actual time. Great if you are a immersive player and even more great if you are a OLED user and risk a burnin, when you play some hours a day.

The is not a single reason why the version number need to be shown all the time on your screen. Rigid screen elements are already difficult enough on an OLED, but a bold white fade-in at the top left in an otherwise often much darker game is extremely bad.

I really wanted to give the game another chance after I bought it shortly after Early Access launched and hadn't played it in years. And in general, I don't think the game is that bad either, it has it's flaws but I had fan the last 9h, but my OLED monitor is more important to me than a game.

This is an amazing game! Really love the depth of it! If you like Minecraft, Escape Velocity, Endless Space, etc. this is for you! And it's incredibly fun to do as a co-op effort!

I mean its a game, its fine. Writing this because Im forced to write it, cant just remove the review box, very annoying.

So many bugs that NEVER get fixed ! DLC is out befor the game is complete ! After all my time with it over the years the game will never get better , they just keep adding more ,and more all with the same old bugs .

windows decided i needed windows 11 and auto updated so i switched to linux love the game sucks playing solo i cant play on an easyanticheat server so i guess screw the linux users

Do not buy the Empyrion (2015) Not worth the money, still in Alpha. What they called a "release" was a massive joke, it should consider a SCAM. If you really want to play the game use other method to play it [censored by Steam], then decide by yourself. Here are other games for you to play: Space Engineers, Stationeers, X4 Foundations, Avorion, Astrox Imperium, Evochron Legacy SE, No Man's Sky, PULSAR: Lost Colony.

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Empyrion (2015) may be not an "Asset Flip" but still a Shovelware, a low effort, low quality game. It is blatantly terrible. Devs want to make a "quick money" with assets bought from the store but isn't going to take the time to actually polish his game. It's a buggy mess, what the dev do is import pre-made assets (or game logic) from the store into the game with no bug fixing, no unique content, or advanced weapons, with stock/dumb AI and stock animations, the assets are there as a basis, a groundwork for you to add and change. Low effort optimization, like high poly, low or non-existent instancing, double or triple render for each mesh, crap or non-existent lod, low or no culling like showing +65 objects, but none can be seen by the player, yeah is a piece of work, AI Pathfinding? AI Behavior? Non-existent, shadows? Let's no talk about that. After 10 years, Empyrion need a hell of years of more development. Developers? It is an insult to the real developers, these guys are not developers. With a good Udemy course and 1 to 3 months, you will produce a better and more polish game prototype than +10 years of Empyrion development.

The community is very hostile, they are censoring, lock and deleting every post/comment/thread that mention the true and warn players about Empyrion, the levels of copium the fanboys are inhaling are out of this world. You'll notice the same people (devs? devs friends?) in the community will jump into every discussion/comment to defend Empyrion. Also, if you didn't know, The studio behind the game is associated with Funcom/Tencent.

The game has no mods, it has "contents", like scenarios, and ships/vessel/buildings to craft inside the game. Empyrion is so mediocre that is very dependent of the scenario RE made by the fanboy/fangirl? ravien to lesser the crap of the game, but RE still is crap.

People say Empyrion it's better when you play the scenario RE (which is the only one, and only what fanboys play), however the game AND the scenario are a bug fest. After 30H fighting with the bad performance, broken English and bugs with vanilla Empyrion. I download the scenario, the game stuck in the loading screen, forced to kill the game, open again, the scenario load, but now there is a pop-up window with an error. Proceed to load again the scenario, full of random bugs, with the IA stuck without moving. This same error occur in RE1 and RE2. (The crap scenario that everyone praises.)

Empyrion (2015) has bad performance since forever, is unpolished, and is highly unoptimized, inconsistent, clunky and janky. To be honest the price don't worth it, the assets are placeholders, direct from the Unity assets store. The textures, animations and 3d assets are badly made to use in the game, the assets are basically "as is", "default" from unity store. In-game Tutorial? Movement? Flying? English translation? UI? AI? Graphics? all crap. You'll stuck trying to navigate the terrain, or jumping over something. YT content creators? They are all small channels that get the game for free and all will say the game is good, don't trust them. DLC? Another crap, together with the base game: Massive Crap.

Whatever graphics settings you set, it will kill your FPS, eat your watts, overheat your GPU, and it will look the same, like crap. DLSS/FSR implementation is trash, actually, every graphic setting is trash. Every graphic and level (low,mid,high,ultra), will consume lots of FPS, GPU usage and power consumption, until you have every metrics in red.

To put it in other words, every graphics settings have a significant performance impact even using high end pc. Graphics settings on high will look outdated, and will look the same as low graphics settings. You'll need to tweak all the graphics settings, lower the resolution, set affinity and even play in 30FPS to play this game. Unless you don't care to eat all the unoptimized crap performance and don't care in throwing out smoke just to run the piece of crap game.

How about the positive review? People are used to mediocrity.

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I really want to recommend this game. I really do.
This game has so much potential. Especialy the base and ship building part!
But so many years after initial release (not in 2020), and the game's graphics are still poorly optimized. The NPCs are still super static. The story is still not well developed.
I had a lot of fun with the game, but it is falling behind all others a lot.

Got stuck on tree with a hover bike. Killed same enemies stuck in a wall. Won a battle with a big ship and it vanished retrieving stuff. A bug kept flying at me and i died. Same start missions with go do this and come back. Star ports are dull and void. Game is dead. Mods cant save.

I think this game does do a lot of things right, and the freedom to explore as much as you can in this game can definitely not be understated. So... why the Not Recommended?

This game is HELLA outdated. In a world where we have space games like Space Engineer, No Mans Sky, hell even Pulsar: Lost Colony, those games overall have much more polish than a game like this. The UI feels like it was made 15 years ago despite constant development since 2015. The performance stutters even with high-end hardware. The graphics look and feel pretty bad and clunky, the POIs make the 7 Days to Die POIs look like artistic masterpieces.

It just doesn't feel good, and at the end of the day no matter the game, it should feel good.

Go play space engineers, this is a very buggy game

2800 hours into this game; at least the 3rd set of developers at this point. Every time I come back to this game, none of the issues have been fixed and even more issues have been created. The devs will blame everything on scenario and content creators when a large amount of the issues have been proven to be the massive database that the game creates and cannot write quickly enough to. Ships and entities jump around and disappear and reappear because of the entity culling.

Overall; play this game because it's the only one of its kind. It's like a lesser advanced version of Space Engineers. But don't buy it full price because even at $20 it's not worth it.

If you’re on the hunt for a thrilling adventure that combines survival, exploration, and base-building in a stunning cosmic setting, then look no further! This game truly delivers an exciting experience that keeps you on your toes while also allowing you to unleash your creativity.

One of the standout features is the expansive universe to explore. With countless planets teeming with unique resources and mysterious creatures, every expedition feels fresh and exhilarating. The developers have done an amazing job crafting diverse environments that not only look fantastic but also challenge your survival skills. You’ll need to gather materials, manage your resources wisely, and fend off some pretty fierce enemies along the way!

Building your base is another highlight of this game. It’s incredibly satisfying to create a sanctuary amidst the chaos of space. The customization options are plentiful, so you can really make your base feel like home. Plus, there’s nothing quite like standing back and admiring your handiwork after a long day of battling foes and gathering supplies.

In terms of quality, the game runs smoothly with impressive graphics that enhance immersion. The controls are intuitive, making it easy for both seasoned gamers and newcomers to dive right in.

Now let’s talk about value! Given the depth of gameplay, variety of features, and ongoing updates from the developers, I’d say it’s well worth the price tag. It’s clear they’re committed to enhancing user experience with regular patches and new content that keeps things exciting.

Overall, this survival game is a delightful blend of adventure and creativity. Whether you’re exploring uncharted worlds or defending your base against alien threats, there’s never a dull moment! If you’re looking for a fun way to escape into the cosmos while testing your skills and ingenuity, I highly recommend giving this game a try. Grab your space gear and get ready for an unforgettable journey!

Really unhappy with this. Mostly positive reviews? How? It's actually unplayable. I read that the game can be buggy but what game isn't? I was not expecting to start a co op game with a friend and be bothered by a message that says "ERROR Cannot send to dedicated server anymore" every 30 seconds. It pops up and your opnly option is to clikc "Quit" which takes you back to the menu. The most bewildering thing is the message goes away if you window out then in. It's almost as if it's giving you an error message that prevents gameplay but there's no actual error. What the hell?
I tried dealing with it for a little while using the window out trick to bypass the error but honestly, and my friends agree here, the game is just not good. It looks like crap, runs like crap, it's just a big disappointment. Don't waste your money even if it's on sale for a dollar. You can't even play.

Ive played for over 6k hours in the early alphas 1-6 a lil of 8, done everything from quests, building, even had a 8 hr pvp battle of ONYA moon with over 20 players! Yes, Thats right Creeperface01! NEVER FORGET, I SHOOT your SV DOWN WITH A RIFLE! Over all, yes, the game has had bugs and always will, just like EVERY other game but not enough to prevent fun!

Been playing this game for a long while. I really wish new DEVs would take over and take the core of the game and upgrade it to 2025. If it wasn't for the small team that work on Reforge Eden I'm fairly certain this game would be shelved. Sad that a game with so much potential is neglected by the developers.

I do recommend the game after my little rant because it allows many incredible creative players to make ships and buildings for players to use. The game is also fun as a survival game. The story is fair but neglected. As I mentioned before the Team behind Reforged Eden are the ones keeping the game alive. I personally think the devs should just give the team the keys since RE2 creators have done more to the game then Eleon.

It's a sandbox + block building game in space with combat.

However:
- Horrible UX
- Horrible sound design and mixing
- Too slow progression
- Too little progression
- Too fast leveling
- Too little time savings by progression
- You interact with the world, but the world does not interact with you
- Lack of automation really, you never "truly solve" a thing
- It can't be, that even fully maxed out into the game, you are forced to spend 5 minutes "on foot" going from planet to planet despite having a JUMP DRIVE. And you'll be doing that alot, in theory.
- Scanning reveals too little, it takes an hour to map a large planet, and it is unfeasible to map an orbit. Even if your radar hits something, you spend minutes crawling up to it to check out what it is, and it's some procedurally generated slop that will be mostly useless to you. But on entry into a system it shows you the kinds of asteroids that exist or for a planet the numbers of ore veins. I feel this system is upside down.
- No real economy. Either you don't have something, or you have it, and can't convert it to value.
- It takes minutes to get through a single enemy ship.
- Salvaging then takes 20 minutes of just "holding your laser on the ship" to get the spoils for that fight you started to get things out of it in the first place

Don't play it, it will take your time. I mean I just barely got past the "tutorial" and into my first CV

The beginning was exciting, but once the reality hits you of how you don't get any returns for progressing, and your progression doesn't unlock real capabilities, builds for ships aren't really diverse, and bases and planets are 100% useless, and the rest of the gameplay will be waiting for your ship to move, waiting to scan and waiting for a super slow action to finish, it's boring.

Only reason I still "recommend it" is if you've run out of autísmo-level games to play, this game can still provide something to get lost in to "learn the sandbox". It's just that it's not too satisfying to achieve finishing "learning the sandbox" of this one.

Constant Warning of Low Memory. At one time I was able to play this, but seems now I can't sorta feel I made a mistake even buying this.

Too buggy, boring with an overcomplicated UI. Games are meant to be fun, this just isnt.

So incredibly boring. Unfinished, unpolished and unfun. But on the other side it makes me wanna play wity real LEGO again.

If this game was still in Early Access, I would recommend it, saying that it has great potential. However, it's riddled with bugs and jank not befitting for a game that has "fully" released.

Some private servers like HWS are great lots of content and would recommend, the Official Servers are mostly empty because of the lack of content and a very toxic DEV/Admin that will threaten you. Because the Official Servers are in this state I can not recommend or give a positive review. Less then 30 people play on the Official Server on a good day, the DEV/Admin of the server has banned at least 7 in the last month for suggesting fixes or content on discord. Guess this behavior is the new norm for Games. Probably get banned for posting this review but good thing about Steam is 1000's of non-toxic games to play.