Avorion

Hope to see more games just like this

just awesome

The game started out fun. But it just feels repetitive and boring. And that starts to really show how weak the other systems of the game are. The research gambling is just mindless boring clicking. There's no built in way to easily sort out junk equipment. So I just let my inventory clog full of useless garbage. And then you look at mods for this stuff and there's dozens of choices and none of them actually make any more sense. Trying to control large groups of ships in combat is sluggish and the AI controlling the ships is unintelligent at best. Attack orders result in firing less than half the time. The tutorials either come up too late and teach things already known, or don't make any sense when they do appear on time. The in game encyclopedia has no helpful information. There's no way to tell what effects each material has, so no way to know what parts to upgrade. At some point this game started to feel more like work than relaxation. So I'm putting it down.

MINDCRAFT IN SPACE

Let me start off by saying I as gifted this game by a friend, so I may be a little biased. Nevertheless, it's a great game. If you're looking for space exploration and total freedom to make your own ships, Avorion's for you, no questions asked. Even if you're not the creative kind (like me!) you can always check the steam workshop for designs and you'll always find something to catch your eye (again, like me!). TL;DR: Great game, geared towards exploration and ship building. Will likely sink 500+ hours into it. Very worth it (even if I had bought it).

Game has been unplayable on macOS since earlier this year. Firstly, the game crashes every 10 minutes. Since even longer ago, the game also hasn't had support for notched screens, which means that all cursor clicks are off by however large the notch is, so when you click somewhere in the UI the complete wrong button gets pressed. Developers don't care, haven't addressed this, still report macOS support. Works fine on Windows to my knowledge.