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Best Space Sims on Steam	Price	Steam Rating	RECOMMENDED
87 Kerbal Space Program	$39.99	Overwhelmingly Positive	Processor:Core i5 Memory:4 GB RAM Graphics:SM4 1GB VRAM Hard Drive:6 GB HD space
86 Freelancer	-	-	-
-- FreeSpace 2	$9.99	-	-
-- Space Engineers	$24.99	Very Positive	-
76 Elite: Dangerous	$29.99	Mostly Positive	-

Kerbal Space Program

Top Con

Some visuals are poorly done

While the rockets, buildings, and even the Kerbals look pretty good, the environments and particle effects are a bit lacking. See More

Top Pro

Motivates you to learn

Kerbal Space Program puts into perspective how amazing the advancement of the human race is. It inspires you to learn our history, how we got here, and what we can do proceed. See More

AgreeableThelxiepeia's Experience

While the graphical side of the game lacks, the rocket physics and realism are excellent, especially when actual NASA Astronauts have played and said that the game is very accurate to the real thing. The main thing that annoys me though is the ships bending and clipping through each other when the game is speed up when your inside of a planets atmosphere. This game gets a 9/10 (4.5/5) from me See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Overwhelmingly Positive

Top Con

Graphics are not the most detailed

The graphics of KSP are not the most detailed but they work non the less. See More

Top Pro

Teaches orbital dynamics & rocket design fundamentals in an accessible manner

The physics engine does a reasonably accurate job of replicating the fundamentals behind both orbital dynamics and rocket design, so by going through the tutorials and experimenting, you're actually learning some real rocket science. See More

ElatedAlQaum's Experience

Big bag of rocket parts. Real physics. No instructions. It's a blast. See More

Top Con

Ships bend and break

rockets tend to bend and even explode when the game is in x2+ speeds. See More

Top Pro

Addicting open-ended gameplay

Getting started can be a little daunting, but once you get the hang of it, there's so much to do! Contracts help suggest and reward activities but you can find so many fun things to do on your own as well (or combined with contracts). See More

DynamicHadad's Experience

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Top Con

Difficult learning curve

Kerbal Space Program is not really a pick up and play title. It can take hours just go grasp the basics and the game will keep throwing new concepts at you as you progress into space, even stuff like orbital dynamics. Because of this, it can easily take dozens of hours to truly master this game. See More

Top Pro

Huge modding scene

There's a plethora of mods available that can change every single aspect of the game. See More

FriendlyMimir's Experience

This game is incredibly fun for both beginners and experts. There are easy to reach locations, such as the Mun and Minmus, and also more challenging locations like the moons of Jool. The rocket building tools are amazing. There are infinite possibilities. You can make crazy contraptions or historically accurate representations. The DLC is very good, adding Apollo parts in the Making History and extra science and robotics parts in the Breaking Ground DLC. In-Game tutorials are very helpful for starting out and getting better at certain difficult aspects of the game. Different game modes promote "replayability" Overall a very good game, and I highly recommend it. See More

Top Con

Not a traditional space sim

Top Pro

In constant development

KSP is a shinning example of early release done right. The currently available game is fun to play, and the developers are constantly adding new major additions. See More

Top Pro

Excellent construction sandbox for building and launching rockets

KSP at its core is a rocket building and launching sandbox. When creating a rocket you can place engines, fuel cells, structural elements, and even parachutes, allowing you to build a rocket in any shape and size. The end result can even look like a giant doughnut, which might be difficult to get it into outer space. Even if you fail, the entirety of the process is really enjoyable. See More

Top Pro

Tons of stuff to do

Build rockets, space planes, space stations, rovers, landers, probes. Explore planets, moons, capture asteroids, set up a communications network, colonize a planet, mine for resources and much more. It can even simulate our solar system. See More

Freelancer

Top Pro

Great story

This game has a really good story with lots of twists. Very well balanced side missions, your pay is based on the type of task being completed while multiplied by distance to target place and few other factors. See More

Top Con

Dated graphics

Freelancer was released in 2003, and as expected from a game that's nearly 15 years old the graphics look it. See More

ShrewdPemphredo's Experience

Best space game ever, very easy to play and kept being a challenge to replay in a different way. See More

Specs

Genre:Space combat & trading game, 3rdPS

Top Pro

Low system requirements

This game has very low hardware requirements. It can be played even on an old netbook with windows XP, 1 Ghz Intel Atom CPU, and 1GB RAM. Game runs with 40-60 fps without single crash. See More

Top Con

Can be rather unbalanced

Some parts of the game are very hard even with the best available in-game hardware and you get killed almost instantly. In these parts it is better to launch Cruise engine. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

As it dates from 2003 it's hard to find copies for sale in shops, but it can be downloaded for free here: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/freelancer-bbb It even runs on Windows 10 with some tweaking ! See More

Top Pro

Easy to pickup and learn

The controls have been simplified to the point where it isn't intimidating for new players. You can't control which systems receive more/less power in tight situations, and other systems have been dummed down as well: repairing your ship can be done with the click of a button instead of needing to wait, there is no radar to track, and there's less information available making it easier to focus on a single task. See More

JollyKuraokami's Experience

One of the best space games ever made. The single player campaign was awesome and as for the multiplayer it never gets old. There are still many modders servicing this title and there was a massive petition for a sequel which was abandoned. This game had a big universe but wasnt too big like elite dangerous. PVP was great and I had many a battle with other clans .. if you havent played this .. pick up a copy off ebay and give it a whirl :) See More

Top Pro

Fun to replay in different ways

DignifiedBirrahgnooloo's Experience

Funnest starship sim I've ever played. I'm sure there are "better " games out there, as the planets and objects in this game defy real world physics, but this game keeps it simple and straightforward what it's about: blowing stuff up, scavenging loot, and exploring new trade routes. See More

Top Pro

Has fanbase made MODs and modified versions of the game

Has fanbase made MODs and modified versions of the game itself to get past the outdated graphics. There's story expansions, full remakes, and a lot more to experience! See More

FreeSpace 2

Top Pro

Has games built on it based on popular IPs

The active modding community produced several free games based on popular ips, including The Babylon Project (Babylon 5), Diaspora (BSG), Wing Commander Saga, with more to come. Again, available for free. See More

Top Con

Pure action game

There is no simulation of space or economy, it is just simple FPS action. See More

Kacper Pawelec's Experience

An absolute classic and gem, best back in the day and still not a lot of competition. Dozens of hours of high qualiy mods supplied by an amazing, dedicated community. Free games based on popular IPs. See More

Specs

Genre:Space combat game, 6DoF, FPS

Top Pro

Great modding community

Just go to Hard Light Productions and see for yourself. Hundreds of mods, campaigns, there is way more content and value to be had beyond the base game. See More

Top Con

Lacking multiplayer

Multiplayer has a lot of issues and is not a great experience right now unfortunately. See More

Top Pro

Engine in constant developement

With the source code being released in 2002, the community offers great support and constant developement, pushing the engine far beyond what was possible in traditional dev cycle. See More

Top Pro

Freespace upgrade project

Volition has released the source code for Freespace 2 under a freeware like license which allows players and modders to modify every aspect of the main game. See More

Space Engineers

Top Pro

Destructible ships

Players are able to smash ships into each other with satisfying destruction physics. See More

Top Con

Still not a whole lot to do

Being an early access game there is still a lot of missing features such as missions, thus leaving no much to do other than the free building mode. See More

SteamPlay22 's Experience

I liked it, i mostly enjoyed the DESTRUCTION See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Easy to build

Space Engineers makes it easy to build any items or objects making sure any skill level can easily have fun in game. All one needs to do is select what they would like to build from the menu and then choose the parts they would like to add. See More

Top Con

Servers are a "lag hell"

Due to the nature of physics simulation of custom built ships, the game requires top hardware to host the game, still making it a "lag hell" if there are more than 10 players. See More

Top Pro

The DEVS

They keep cracking at this game making it the best they can with the vision they have. See More

Top Pro

Prefabricated ships available in game that are modifiable

For those that do not want to build a whole ship from scratch there are prefabricated ships available upon start that are also modifiable so users can customize to their liking. See More

Elite: Dangerous

Top Con

Repetitive Gameplay

The missions are all the same go here kill this, go here fetch that, rinse and recycle type of missions. You will get bored exploring as most locations all look the same and combat AI is not that great. Often you'll find yourself bored traversing the HUGE world very quickly. See More

Top Pro

Very realistic representation of space and star systems

Elite Dangerous uses publicly available real world star maps that we have of the Milky Way consisting of 150,000 star systems. Although in the current beta, full access to the entire galaxy is limited, in the final game, you will be able to visit any of the 400 billion stars in our galaxy on a 1:1 scale. Stars that we do know of are properly mapped in place and are of the correct type given the information we have about them. Stars we haven't collected data on are procedurally generated which allows you to explore any of the 400 billion of them. Star systems are intelligently simulated using the "Star Forge", a generator that simulates the creation of a star system forming from its nebular cloud to determine what celestial bodies appear and what orbits they have. This feature leads to many varied and unique star systems possibly with planets that can co-orbit around each other, or with binary star systems, and infinitely more possibilities. See More

RationalTonatiuh's Experience

Loved the game, felt very nice to play, graphics are amazing. Only downside is the incredible grind needed to get absolutely anything. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:Space trading and combat game

Co-Op:Multiplayer

Controller Support:Full

Top Con

Online Only

No support for single player, you know, like in Elite 1 to 3 See More

Top Pro

Exploration at every level of detail

Full exploration of the galaxy is planned, allowing you to be able to jump from star system to star system, and fly around within a solar system from planet to planet, eventually going all the way down to a planet's surface at a 1:1 scale in a later update. Planetary landings will require a lot of details to be developed and designed, but you can still see the level of detail shift in action when flying into a planet's rings, where getting close enough show the individual asteroids within, which you can then interact with through mining, or by having a battle among them. See More

CompassionateHimeros's Experience

Free to play grinding simulator, you pay premium for multifaceted "premium" grind. Engineering sucks, random results with same input and slotmachine process. Stupid and disgusting gameloop designs. See More

Top Con

A plethora of broken, unfulfilled and cancelled promises, only made to piggyback on Star Citizen hype 2011

Back at the time it was clear that the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter campaign would be failing, they quickly promised everything the more successful Star Citizen had in Chris Robert's pitch. Elite promised: Walking Ship Interiors to walk around Station Interiors to walk around FPS everywhere Ship boarding EVA Zero G Planets with flora, fauna and hunting a living simulated universe with lots of trafiic and dynamic NPCs an offline single player game modding Six (6!) years later, none of the above was fulfilled and half of it got cancelled and the game is known as "One mile wide, one inch deep". Overall, if the game had been popular, it would have likely received the "biggest blunder in the history of space games" award. See More

Top Pro

Feeling getting better

You can see difference between begining of your journey and many hours later See More

ChattyMutunusTutunus's Experience

Developers are out of touch with the game. Almost zero communication. Recent changes have really spoiled the game in many ways See More

Top Con

Empty

You can see many ships, but only few are players, other are bots See More

Top Pro

Built with future expansion in mind

When Elite Dangerous came out, development didn't stop. To build a game with a huge scope as Elite Dangerous, cannot be done all at once, so the developers have adopted an approach of incremental improvement. Various game play elements are being designed as a foundation for later features. For example, although planetary landings aren't going to be available until a later update, the engine has been designed to be able to support going from lightyears away to meters away. See More

Top Con

Really complicated to learn

Looking up FAQs and trade routes from first-hand users will be the norm for figuring out many aspects of Elite: Dangerous. On top of this, notes will have to be taken, which is made more difficult by the fact the game does not support in-game note taking. So a pad and paper is recommended to remember all of the minutiae of the game. See More

Top Pro

Great physics engine

The planets rotate around their stars, and their axes. When you rotate the ship, RCS engines rotate too, like it would in zero gravity. Of course there has to be some constrains so that it's easier to dogfight with other ships. There is a maximum speed, but you can still do all the neat tricks you see in great SciFi shows like Battlestar Galactica. See More

Top Con

"Mile Wide and an Inch Deep"

The game has a serious problem with depth and requires the user to repeat the same few fun actions over and over again. The world is massive and beautiful but feels empty. The game gets stale quickly despite being visually stunning. See More

Top Pro

Very realistic representation of space & star systems

Elite Dangerous uses publicly available real world star maps that we have of the Milky Way consisting of 150,000 star systems. Although in the current beta, full access to the entire galaxy is limited, in the final game, you will be able to visit any of the 400 billion stars in our galaxy on a 1:1 scale. Stars that we do know of are properly mapped in place and are of the correct type given the information we have about them. Stars we haven't collected data on are procedurally generated which allows you to explore any of the 400 billion of them. Star systems are intelligently simulated using the "Star Forge", a generator that simulates the creation of a star system forming from its nebular cloud to determine what celestial bodies appear and what orbits they have. This feature leads to many varied and unique star systems possibly with planets that can co-orbit around each other, or with binary star systems, and infinitely more possibilities. See More

Top Pro

Great Oculus Rift integration

Elite Dangerous has very good integration with the Oculus Rift thanks to its cockpit view only gameplay philosophy. All ship UIs are part of displays that appear on each side of you that appear when you turn your head, so accessing the navigation or ship menus happens seamlessly just by looking in their direction. The game also uses the direction you are looking in for targeting, so your lock on target is whatever you're head is pointing at. By sitting in the cockpit of a ship, you are given a stationary frame of reference that helps prevent motion sickness associated with movement in game when you aren't actually moving. See More

Star Citizen

Top Con

Still in alpha stages of development

Top Pro

Vast, detailed sci-fi world

A long term goal is to have over 100 different star systems in game, most of which will have many planets within them. See More

SmartTheros's Experience

This is not a game ..in 2018 (after almost 6 years in development and $180 mil. spent on god knows what) is still a broken demo for a game that is more and more likely to never see the light off day See More

Top Con

Still so many bugs

The game itself is a huge bugfest for a game with over $200 MILLION in just crowdfunding! Every update theres a giant festival of bugs. Rendering bugs, physics bugs, gameplay bugs and even visual bugs are common in this game. Oops I mean, TECH DEMO See More

Top Pro

Breathtaking in alpha, and slowly edging closer to finish

It's is shaping up nicely, and going for the 2020 release, and alrady in alpha offers a breathtaking experience. Big games tekes long to develop, but it is slowly getting there. See More

CoolKakka's Experience

piece of trash exhausting game to play. Hard as hell to make money doing civilian jobs as they barely pay more than enough to just break even or are somehow not even in game yet. Wanna do some legal greyish stuff smuggling goods for a better payout? Get ready to be killed randomly by things while the game refuses to tell you if it was environment you couldn't see, NPCs you couldn't see, or griefing players. The devs had the amazing idea to implement all the hardcore painful exhausting mechanics before putting in any of the mechanics that make all the shit you have to go through worth it. POS game with some hardcore cope in the community. Just cause the game is alpha, that doesn't mean it's ok to ignore big fucking bugs for years. Never had a game where bumping my shoulder into a wall gave me internal bleeding or looking at a computer monitor kills you. This is a game Ubisoft dreams about making. Cool concept but just absolutely a broken mess that makes you wish it wasnt broken at every seam. See More

Top Con

The largest Ponzi Scheme to ever come out of gaming. EA has posters of Star Citizen on their walls.

Top Pro

Includes a singleplayer mode, called "Squadron 42"

Squadron 42 is a single player campaign that takes place in the in game universe that allows players to play offline. See More

Richard Inks's Experience

Not a lot to do as game is STILL in alpha after years of development, kickstarter AND additional funding. See More

Top Con

Not actually a real game

You will never ever actually get to use the ship in a real game. See More

Top Pro

PRO: No one will ever have to suffer through playing it

Since, you know, the entire thing is basically a 120 million dollar Nigerian Prince scam, except the prince promises you video games instead of riches. See More

AgreeablePapatuanuku's Experience

It's is shaping up nicely, and going for the 2020 release, and alrady in alpha offers a breathtaking experience. Big games tekes long to develop, but it is slowly getting there. See More

Top Con

Commercial launch is still a year away (2016)

The commercial launch of the persistent universe game will be sometime in 2016. See More

Top Pro

Over $73million in funding

A game with the huge scope of Star Citizen will cost a lot of money to develop, and through multiple campaigns, Star Citizen has raised a huge amount of money to make that happen. See More

Top Pro

Dynamic economy system

The economy of the game and the actions to keep it moving are constantly going on in the background but allows for players to step in and out of it at their leisure in order to take part. See More

Top Pro

Ability to command persistent ships and stations

Players will be able to command multi-person ships with other users who will be able to command their own stations on said ships. See More

Top Pro

A true PC game

It's been stated that the game will take full advantage of PC's capabilities and will not be held back by a need to accommodate a console port. See More

FlightGear

Top Con

A flight simulator

ResponsibleMuldjewangk's Experience

not a space sim See More

Specs

Top Con

Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition

X3: Terran Conflict

Top Pro

You can own an empire, not just a ship

You start in a small fighter or trade ship, but can own and control as many ships and stations as you care to build up, including some unique facilities tied to the story. See More

Top Con

Graphics look a bit dated compared to a game like Star Citizen

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Space combat und trading

Top Pro

Deep, open-ended gameplay

You can fight, build, trade, pirate - so much to do! See More

Top Con

Daunting for new players

This series has a long pedigree. It has a lot of complexity that you get dropped into pretty quickly, and the plot has some quirks. If you don't mind sometimes checking out a wiki to wrap your head around something or to get unstuck, you'll be fine. See More

No Man's Sky

Top Pro

Dreamy graphics

The art style of this game is very colorful and saturated and uses hues in a way that it gives you an otherworldly feel. Graphics like these tend to remain good for a much longer time than classic 3D graphics. See More

Top Con

Total lack of true diversity in the planet generation

You can visit 18 quintillionplanets, true, but once you have seen the five or six different biomes you encounter in the game, you get only more of the same. Plants, animals, rock formations, all repeating themselves over and over again. Frustrating! They should have some algorithm which mixes or mutates the seemingly very few building blocks of the procedural generation, in order to avoid constant repetition of the same elements. And, by the way, the Next update seems to have only aggravated this frustrating problem. Not worth buying, at least until Hello Games correct this issue, which, in this particular game is a really central one. See More

DiplomaticKurdalaegon's Experience

18 quintillion planets, but after visiting the first ten or twelve, you see only more of the same. The Next update didn't help either in this respect. The same animals, plants, even rock formations repeating themselves over and over again. Sadly, at least for now, a very frustrating universe... See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Action-Adventure, Survival

Top Pro

Seamless space to planetary flight

Top Con

Poor initial PC port

The advantage of the pc port is that field of vision can be broadened. That said, the initial PC release version of NMS suffered from graphics stuttering, crashes and bugs that might force the player to load a previous save. Patches throughout the weeks following the PC release have solved most of these issues though. See More

Top Pro

Freedom to choose how you want to play

Ally with factions, trade or just be a pirate by attacking freighter spaceships. When trading with NPC aliens, you build up a positive reputation with the faction they belong to. Alternatively you can also be hostile and attack trade ships, or even be attacked by NPC pirate spaceships. Both can be ways to get what you need, so do whatever suits your play style. You can choose to follow the path of the Atlas, or find your own way to the center of the galaxy. See More

Top Con

Grind

Everything you can do in the game is gated behind extensive grinding. Even grinding is gated behind grinding. F-you gameplay at its worst. See More

Top Pro

Massive galaxy to explore

Thanks to the fact that the entire galaxy of No Man's Sky is procedurally generated, the amount of planets to explore is almost endless. The number of planets would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. However, the fact that 2 players managed to find each other in game on the first day, seems to make this number quite questionable. See More

Top Con

Expensive

No Man's Sky is a pretty big production for an indie game as the team of devs and artists consisted of 14 people in the later stages of development. The game stands out above most indie games in size, features, technology and graphics. Along with the amount of enthusiasm from the gaming community, this has allowed the studio to set the launch price at $60 (or €60). See More

Top Pro

Endless procedural generation

This game procedurally generates almost everything. Your spaceships are procedurally generated, so are the planets, moons, every animal on these planets, the resource nodes, trade routes, etc. When discovering new species or planets, players get to rename these and leave their mark on the galaxy. See More

Top Con

No clearly defined missions

The objective of the game is to ultimately reach the center of the galaxy. However, the player is completely free and unguided from the beginning. You figure it out for yourself as you start mining, crafting and upgrading your ship and gear. This game doesn't have a big story to tell. See More

Prosperous Universe

Top Pro

Opt-in to military conflict

You don't have to set your alarm to 4 in the morning because an enemy fleet is inbound and you never have to worry about your hard-earned property to be destroyed. See More

Top Con

Currently missing mid & end game content

As the game is currently at its alpha stage, it's still missing content that makes it fun to play for a prolonged period of time. See More

Mjeno's Experience

Full disclosure: I am now on the team of the development studio myself, but I first followed this game as a fan for several months. I was initially drawn in by the realistic sci-fi setting and the promise of a grind-free experience. I loved Eve Online and Elite Dangerous, but dropped out of both because of the in-game waiting times for which I simply don't have the time anymore. I don't play (or even look at) other browser-based games, but this one really sticks out from the crowd. See More

Specs

Genre:Space economy sim

Controller Support:No

Top Pro

Runs in any browser

The game runs in any browser. There's no flying around in space, which would require a heavy 3D client without adding any actual depth in terms of gameplay. See More

Top Pro

Completely player-driven economy

Top Pro

Amazing community

The devs and the players are such an amazing resource in this game. See More

Top Pro

Highly realistic space flight

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

Top Pro

Gives a great sense of taking part in the Star Wars universe

From the fantastic voice acting, the cinematic sequences to the licensed music and sound effects, this game gives off a great feeling of taking part in the universe of Star Wars. While there has been many games that have held the license, this has been regarded as one of the better titles for some time, which shows with the care they took in presentation. See More

Top Con

In game resolution settings may crash the game

While there is a setting in the game to adjust the resolution the game is played in, changing this setting may make the game crash when a mission is launched. While this setting can be changed in an ini file which will not make the game crash, having a broken option in the game shows a lack of polish. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:Space combat game

Top Pro

Easy to learn and play

Rogue Squadron has very accessible controls that allows for the game to have a bunch of differing missions due to how easy it is to fly the ships. More akin to Starfox over Star Wars flight sim titles such as X-Wing, allows for arcadey controls that is no where near as punishing as other sims. This means the game can be more accessible for any type of player. See More

Top Con

Controller settings need to be tweaked

In order to get a controller working properly with the game, one will need to go into the settings of the game in order to change some options. Basically out of the box controller support is pretty poor, though once tweaked the controller will work fine. See More

Top Pro

Medal system allows for plenty of replayability

Each missions has a bronze, silver or gold medal that can be earned by completing the stage and certain tasks contained withing under a certain time limit. With gold being the toughest to earn, there is plenty of reason to revisit stages in order to earn the gold medal. This means hours of extra time spent with the game. See More

Top Con

No graphical options

The game is basically a straight port of the N64 title, meaning there is zero graphical settings to be found other than resolution (which is broken). So for those looking for a more polished title that would allow them to take advantage of PC centric graphical settings, this may not be the game for you. See More

Top Pro

Expansive content

Even though this is an older game originally released for the Nintendo 64 back in 98, the amount of content is quite good as there is a plethora of missions available. Escort/rescue missions, dogfights and bombing runs make up some of this content, all of which take place on many different worlds or space set pieces, all of which take place in the cannon universe of Star Wars. See More

Top Con

Mouse and keyboard controls are very poor

This game was originally designed for a controller, which shows when trying to play with a keyboard and mouse. While this port does offer keyboard controls, they work so poorly that it makes the game almost unplayable when using this control scheme. See More

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

ResponsibleMuldjewangk's Experience

Not a space sim See More

Specs

Space Station 13

Top Pro

Small

Program Byond and game is small and won't be a problem to spare some megabytes for it. See More

Top Con

Lagging

That depends how good is the server, but lags aren't rare. See More

Jakub “RF” Kalemba's Experience

Every game is a great experience and example, that people can create stories, that can be match with short sci-fi stories. See More

Top Pro

Community

Forums, wiki, players, and admins. If someone has a problem or question the See More

Top Con

Ugly

Sound sometimes can be decent, but graphic is bad. You can say what is what, but only that. See More

Top Pro

Choices, choices

Almost 30 jobs, a lot to do, your mind is your barrier. You wanna get into a locked room? Use acid, hack, blow up the door, use vent, steal keycard, etc. See More

Top Con

Hard

You NEED to read wiki and tutorials. The game is hard from the beginning and jumping straight to the game is the best way to throw it away. See More

Top Pro

Different game modes

Traitor, rogue mage, mafia attack, murderous AI, cult and many more. Players and forums create more and more modes. See More

Top Pro

Different jobs with different responsibilities

Every player is assigned a certain job from one of several departments, such as the science team, medical, engineering, etc. They each have their own spawning sections, equipment, access levels and duties, all designed to keep the station going and deal with whatever issues come up. See More

Stellaris

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Hybrid: 4X / Grand Strategy

EVE Online

Top Con

Good luck - very complex, all over the place

Top Pro

Real freedom

You can do anything. Literally anything. You can become a massive entrepreneur and deal with billions of ISK, set up a pirate base in wormhole space, explore anomalies, build massive ships, become CEO of a player-run industrial corporation. There's tons and tons and tons of stuff. This is likely the most sandboxy of MMO sandboxes. See More

Davex1555's Experience

You can do literally nothing without an omega account(basically premium). You can get it two ways. 1 Grind your butt off. 2 Be a whale and use irl cash. And guess what, ITS ONLY FOR A MONTH AND ISNT EVEN PERMENENT. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:SciFi MMO

Co-Op:Online Co-Op / PvP

Top Con

Requires lots of time invested

Because of the open market thing even going out on a quick mission may require you to gear up your ship first, which takes ages as you jump across multiple stations to get the two dozen different modules required to outfit your ship. EVE feels a lot like a second job sometimes. See More

Top Pro

360' freedom of movement

Up, down, left and right simply stop having a meaning when it comes to space. Making for a true space simulator in that the controls mimic how objects would behave in a real space environment. See More

ArtisticMara's Experience

the most toxic environment ever player in any game, scammer everywhere but no role play, Completely trash ! See More

Top Con

On the decline

The player number is about half of what it used to be and continues to decline. The game has been around for 10 years so it's hardly a surprise. See More

Top Con

Hard to achieve a big success, nearly as hard as in real file

Becoming CEO or affording a massive ship is nearly as hard as in real life. Most of the "real freedom" things advertised by developers and fans are unachievable without sufficient talents in soft skills even if you have all the time of the world to try. See More

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require add money throught 32 year timer skill competence

scammer everywhere/no role play or fair game, With any refund, this game is not fun at all, I do not recommend it at all, It's completely waste of time and trash. See More

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Spreadsheets in space

At the very core, that's what it is. You'll be looking at tons of stats, calculating % resistances and DPS. It's a paradise for math savants and economics geeks, but not so much if you just want to blow things up quickly. The graphics are there, but combat takes place at a few kilometers at least, so you won't be ever seeing your ship and the enemys' at the same time (unless as tiny silhouettes). Which only enhances the feeling that combat is a set of dynamic spreadsheets rather than a real visceral thing. See More

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