Mixed review / recommendation with warning. The first 15 hours are great - it's exactly what you'd expect from the screenshots and done well. I enjoyed meeting aliens, shooting aliens, probing planets, exploring, and building my ship. While you have a continuous stream of new things to discover, it's a lot of fun.

It just became a bit of a chore at the end: finishing up all the sidequests, grinding for resources for shipbuilding, slowly travelling between locations trying to figure out some clues from your logs... If I were a rational player, I'd have stuck to the main quest and it'd have been over in 20 hours. Unfortunately I have that completionist urge, and it wasn't until the 25 hour mark where I realized I was just doing busywork trying to clean up my quest log and there was no more fun left for me. I beelined towards the ending, and it felt both long-overdue and unclimactic.

Mixed review / recommendation with warning. The first 15 hours are great - it's exactly what you'd expect from the screenshots and done well. I enjoyed meeting aliens, shooting aliens, probing planets, exploring, and building my ship. While you have a continuous stream of new things to discover, it's a lot of fun. It just became a bit of a chore at the end: finishing up all the sidequests, grinding for resources for shipbuilding, slowly travelling between locations trying to figure out some clues from your logs... If I were a rational player, I'd have stuck to the main quest and it'd have been over in 20 hours. Unfortunately I have that completionist urge, and it wasn't until the 25 hour mark where I realized I was just doing busywork trying to clean up my quest log and there was no more fun left for me. I beelined towards the ending, and it felt both long-overdue and unclimactic.