When comparing Planet Explorers vs Avorion, the Slant community recommends Avorion for most people. In the question“What are the best voxel-based games for the PC?” Avorion is ranked 10th while Planet Explorers is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Avorion is:
The game is beautifully made. The visuals are fascinating. The ship building process is not traditional. You can build any kind of ship you like. Weapon variety is huge. Game mechanics are smooth and easy to understand. Less graphical requirements. It works like a charm even on on-board graphics, though OpenGl graphics are known to cause problems in the games and slight lag/performance issues. Almost everything is available in the Demo version. The demo map is huge enough that it'll take you 2-3 months to explore if you play everyday for 2-3 hours. Plenty of weapons are upgrade options in the demo version. Multiplayer on LAN and Internet and Hosting capabilities, making it easier to play with your friends
Specs
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Pros
Pro Lots of transportation options
Users can build their own vehicles which makes the options pretty much limitless.
Pro Massive game world
The world is almost too big to traverse on foot.
Pro Beautiful, new and fun
The game is beautifully made. The visuals are fascinating. The ship building process is not traditional. You can build any kind of ship you like.
Weapon variety is huge.
Game mechanics are smooth and easy to understand.
Less graphical requirements. It works like a charm even on on-board graphics, though OpenGl graphics are known to cause problems in the games and slight lag/performance issues.
Almost everything is available in the Demo version. The demo map is huge enough that it'll take you 2-3 months to explore if you play everyday for 2-3 hours. Plenty of weapons are upgrade options in the demo version.
Multiplayer on LAN and Internet and Hosting capabilities, making it easier to play with your friends
Pro Free Demo
The demo of this game is available from the official website. The demo offers all the features of the game but in limited quantity. You can build custom ships but certain blocks are not available in the demo version, certain weapon types and logic upgrades are also not available in the demo version.
Cons
Con In early access
The game is not yet finished and any design decisions can change. A good amount of the functionality is in an early state and bugs are common.
Con Jack of all trades master of none
The scope of the game is quite large when compared to something like Minecraft, which means there are quite a few mechanics in the game that just do not feel that fleshed out. While there is much one can do in the game, when closely looking at how these things work one can see their failings easily.
Con Development progress is slow
Often many devs that do Early Access bite off more than they can chew which tends to slow down development when they inevitably need to switch engines or do rewrite large portions of the game from scratch.
Con Time consuming
Be prepared to invest a lot of time, this is not a game for the impatient!
Con Slow updates for Demo Version
The devs are concentrating more on the full version. The demo version has not been updated since the last released (2016) 8.1.5 .
8.1.5 is stable but no major/minor updates have been seen so far.