Deep loot, builds and ship variety
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Very large variety of spaceships and weapons with different playstyles each. Makes every combat engagement unique.”
Steam review · 90.6 h played ↗
EVERSPACE™ 2
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 86%Very Positive · 86%ROCKFISH Games2023Shooter · Looter Shooter · Action RPG
$49.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A polished, gorgeous arcade space looter-shooter with fun dogfighting, but padded with tedious hidden-object puzzles and grind. Skip it if you want a deep space sim or hate searching for tiny objectives.
Great for
Freelancer and Galaxy on Fire fans who want arcade dogfights, loot and ship builds
Main risk
Tedious find-the-object puzzles, grind and slow travel pad out the fun combat
What changed in the last 30 days
45 recent reviews
Recent negative reviews point to shallow combat, tedious puzzles and travel, overtuned enemies and Mac performance and bugs. The studio has reportedly moved on, so there is no clear single trigger.
45 recent reviews
What players love
Freelancer / Galaxy on Fire successor feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“If you've been wanting to play a game like Freelancer, this is a great modern take on the same formula.”
Steam review · 60.1 h played ↗
Fun, fluid arcade dogfighting
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“dog fighting in Everspace 2 also feels incredible. Shots have bullet magnetism which removes the frustration of similar games.”
Steam review · 71.7 h played ↗
Gorgeous, varied environments
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Absolutely stunning looking plays well and have really enjoyed my playthrough.”
Steam review · 77.6 h played ↗
Enjoyable puzzles and exploration
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The puzzles are the best part of this game, and are genuinely satisfying to solve.”
Steam review · 362.5 h played ↗
Huge amount of content and side missions
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The game has insane amount of content, several factions giving missions, random encounters, hand crafted locations”
Steam review · 17 h played ↗
What players complain about
Repetitive grindy gameplay loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“The game tries to diversify the gameplay with brainless busywork, and the space fights don't change at all throughout the game.”
Steam review · 29.3 h played ↗
Tedious hidden-object puzzles
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“combing through space junk looking for a "needle in a haystack", with no visual cues or environmental logic to guide your search.”
Steam review · 96.7 h played ↗
Bland story, unskippable banter
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Extreme levels of verbal di**rhea. Unskippable banter.”
Steam review · 167.5 h played ↗
Overcomplicated loot, RNG and weak progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“the system introduces unnecessary grind and RNG which aren't particularly fun, interesting, or even challenging to engage with”
Steam review · 27.5 h played ↗
Slow travel and many loading screens
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“the thirty seconds to minute and a half long loading screens between every single piece of content means I am putting the game down forever.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗
Overtuned enemies and difficulty walls
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“around level 8-9, everything is just crushing you, wherever you go.”
Steam review · 90.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support35 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core [email protected] or AMD FX [email protected]
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6400 (4GB)
Storage35 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core [email protected] or Ryzen 5 [email protected]
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (8 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (8GB)
Storage35 GB available space
OSWindows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core [email protected] or AMD FX [email protected]
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6400 (4GB)
Storage35 GB available space
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