This is one of the best games I've ever played. I wish I'd found it sooner! Also one of the best truly open-world game engines I've experienced. Factions are actively at war behind the scenes, while you play. You can explore, fight, harvest, trade, run a space corporation, build a fleet from scratch, and grow an empire, or simply be a pirate with some escort ships and attack whoever you want. Diplomacy matters. The game gives several options to advance and doesn't require you to grind for hours. Co-op is so much fun, but solo is great too. I really appreciate the developers for this game. They put a ton of thought into so many mechanics that allow you to customize ships, choose thousands of weapons and weapon variants, modify weapon schematics, loot endlessly, and enemies are fun and get harder in harder areas.

Cons: The game had a steep learning curve. That said, its a game where you keep getting to experience ah-ha moments of cool features as you discover them.
You can grind early on and build an unstoppable ship, or you could do like I did and skip the grind venture boldly into challenging combat to gain better loot... or die trying. This is such a great open world space exploration game where you get to do what you want. Highly Recommend!

Actually really good. Would be amazing to set up a server to play with friends. The ship building can be as in depth or as simple as you like. Pretty good gameplay, little bit grindy BUT you can continue to get captains for ships you build, so you can run ten ships each on five hour missions while you sleep and stuff. Very fun scifi game

I keep trying to get into this game. I boot it up and fart around mining rocks for half an hour then get bored get quit. Needs a tutorial or something.