Avorion

The vanilla base game is okay. The shipbuilding is great, and being able to import assets from other games, voxelize them, and drop them right in is genuinely cool. The game sells itself as a sandbox space-combat/light-economy sort of deal—basically an “X4 lite.” But where X4 has a deep, living economy and a world that actually reacts to things (even if it limits your creativity), Avorion is the opposite. You get tons of freedom to build whatever you want, but the world underneath feels pretty shallow. After a few hours you’ve basically seen every sector layout, quests start repeating, combat feels kind of average, and factions mostly just… exist in the background without doing much. So why a positive review? Simple: the Xavorion mod. Somehow a modder managed to bring out the potential the base game only hints at. The mod adds a real supply-and-demand economy, AI factions that actually compete with you, sectors that finally feel different, and much better faction interaction instead of everyone just sitting there pretending to be alive. It even improves the combat enough to make fights feel more engaging instead of “point, shoot, repeat.” It’s still not X4-level deep, but it’s a huge step closer—and honestly, this mod basically saved the game for me. Vanilla is just painfully average on its own. Sometimes developers build the canvas, but modders end up painting the masterpiece.

I really wanted to like this game. The freedom of design for the ships is a big draw, the tons of bullets from a bunch of turrets is great. It has everything going for it. Except the devs have no idea what game they want to make. Also there are really bad bugs that have existed for years at this point that they've just admitted that they're not going to even bother trying to fix. When you play this game, it's clear that they're going for the X4 style of spaceship empire automation gameplay. But they constantly make decisions that punish you for trying to automate anything. Your ships will not defend themselves when attacked, unless you set their mission to be to attack enemies. But that's the *only* thing they can do then. Production automation barely exists. You have no control over inputs in factories, so your stations will just get choked full of one input. Do you want to remotely load up a freighter with materials and sell it manually to clear space so you can produce goods? Can't do that either because of the docking bugs. I gave it the best shot I could, there's a lot of this game that really has going for it. I just think they need to decide if they're making a single hero ship game or a space empire game and commit.

Played it a lot, but never got around to writing a review for it. In short: One of the best space sandbox games I've ever played. Incredibly deep, addicting and well made. Runs like butter, looks and sounds super cool, UI and UX is incredible. Workshop support makes all of it even better. Can be a bit daunting to get into, so my tips for getting started: - Download as many ship designs from the workshop as you can. You don't have to build everything yourself. - Build the simplest ship preset with 1-3 slots, dump some mining turrets on it and just mine for the first hour. Sell much of your ores. - Use the money and resources to build a reasonable combat ship with lots of defense. - Combat is the quickest way to gathering lots of modules. - Only sell absolute junk modules. Your inventory is unlimited, keep the rest. - Whenever you can, hire captains. Use them to automate simple mining boats all over the universe. Once you've done this for like 10-20 hrs and you have decent amounts of green/blue ores, you might feel like you're underway nicely. Then you realize you've barely started, and it only becomes more fun.

[h1] Avorion Review[/h1] ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

As someone who loves X4: Foundations, Elite Dangerous, Space Engineers, and even the empire-building chaos of Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, Avorion scratches a very specific itch in a way few games do. It blends space exploration, ship building, trading, combat, mining, fleet management, and faction warfare into one surprisingly deep sandbox. The ship-building system is flexible enough to let you create anything from a tiny mining craft to a massive battleship or carrier, while the galaxy itself gives you plenty of reasons to keep expanding, upgrading, and pushing deeper into more dangerous territory. What I really appreciate is how Avorion captures that same “build your own story” feeling that makes games like X4 and Bannerlord so addictive. You are not just following a linear path. You are growing from a small-time pilot into a fleet commander, industrialist, pirate hunter, trader, warlord, or whatever role you decide to carve out for yourself. It is not as simulation-heavy as Elite Dangerous, not as economy-focused as X4, and not as engineering-detailed as Space Engineers, but it pulls pieces from all of them and turns them into a very playable, rewarding space sandbox. The progression feels satisfying, the customization is excellent, and there is always another ship to build, sector to explore, resource to chase, or enemy to take down. For anyone who enjoys open-ended space games with construction, progression, combat, and empire-building, Avorion is absolutely worth playing.

Game has some great ideas. Its a shame they aren't implemented well at all. For some reason if you want to play the game at all, even single player the game must create a server on your computer that you have to connect to. I don't know how they've managed to create a game with connection issues to a server running on my local machine but they've done it, so thats interesting. The game is just a buggy mess all around though. Like workshop items don't appear in the correct folder if at all. The devs, when asked about this issue were like "idk lmao" and have never fixed this all these years later. The ship building in this game is so obtuse it borders on esoteric. Voxels behave seemingly at random, where two shapes that fit together at a certain scale will not when scaled up. I've been told that the game tracks the sizes to the 0.01th degree which, thats cool and all but am I playing a game or am I doing geometry homework? The snapping that the game uses also just sometimes doesn't work. I really want to like this game but its just kinda ass.

Nach rund 1.918 Stunden im All kann ich mit absoluter Gewissheit sagen: Ich habe Lebenszeit in etwas investiert, das sich anfühlt wie der Wunschtraum eines Kindes, der Wirklichkeit wurde. Schiffe bauen – egal wie groß, wie massiv, wie verrückt. Einziges Limit? Meine Hardware. (Und naja, irgendwann auch eure Engine… aber wenn man mal eben 2.500 Jäger gleichzeitig losschickt, darf der Server ruhig ein bisschen ins Schwitzen kommen, oder? 😄) Ich erinnere mich noch an die Zeit, als ihr im Early Access wart. Damals auf der Gamescom konnte man euch Entwickler einfach ansprechen – ich hatte mich mit einem von euch unterhalten, über den Fortschritt, über Ideen, über die Zukunft von Avorion. Und verdammt – ihr habt fast alles davon umgesetzt! (Naja, bis auf eigene Warpgates… aber hey, man muss ja noch Träume haben.) Euer Spiel zeigt, was passiert, wenn man mit Herz, Leidenschaft und echtem Handwerk entwickelt. Avorion ist für mich das Minecraft des Weltraums – grenzenlos, kreativ, lebendig. Und selbst nach all der Zeit starte ich es immer noch mit dem gleichen Gefühl wie am ersten Tag. Es gibt eigentlich nur einen negativen Punkt: Ich schlafe einfach viel zu wenig, wenn ich Avorion spiele! Vielleicht solltet ihr mal ein Sleep-Reminder-Script in Python oder PowerShell einbauen... naja, ich schweife ab. Ich muss los – ein neues Schlachtschiff aus Blöcken wartet auf seine Geburt. Und vielleicht gelingt es mir diesmal, aus Ecken endlich ein rundes Schiff zu zaubern. Danke für über 2.000 Stunden Avorion. Danke für ein Stück Kindheitstraum, das ihr Realität habt werden lassen. 🚀💙

It's a decent game but every 10 minutes I found something that feels very.. fake? And I wished I was playing x3/x4. Ship orders are fine, but half the time they're not actually doing anything in the world, they just disappear and there's a timer that tells you when they "finish". Factions exist but they're completly static. They don't build stations, they barely have any ships, they don't trade as far as I know. Economy in most places is dead. Even if you find a sector that has A LOT of factories, they still are not really producing goods because (I assume) AI can't even handle basic supply. The game claims the ships of different factions are different but that's a lie. They all look similar, they all fight similar, they just look vaguely different.

EVE Online, StarField, No Mans Sky, all of the space games promised me 5 things. They Failed to deliver one... Avorion Promised me one thing. They succeeded at delivering 5... The 5 Promises mentioned were A Fun Real Time Strategy Game where you write your own story. Fully customizable starships. very interactable and unique gameplay that can keep the player hooked. Several opportunities to allow players to fully immerse themselves in the game's inviroment. And lastly, beautiful graphics meant to blow the minds of all those who lay eyes upon it. Avorion does what other space games simply are too greedy to do. While the DLCs add content, they are not a requirement for fun and enjoyment, they don't add blocks that provide a clear advantage over other players, the mechanics they DO add are just another form of making credits that requires time and dedication, and they can be shared between players for free with the only requirement being that the host of the server owns the DLC. Avorion does what other space games are too lazy to do. A Large and Open galaxy free for you to explore with unique events that keep the player guessing "Whats next?", Factions that each have their own unique styles, military ideals, and goals that not always collide with one-another, A Dynamic world system that always interacts with both itself and its players that keep the player immersed as much as possible, and a story that isnt even required to have fun or even progress in the game as nobody is stopping you from just getting the best material in the game and beating the game all before the tutorial guy even gave you his first quest. Last thing, I get that strategy games arent for everyone, but nobody said you HAD to control a whole faction, you could just be a one man pirate, a small group of travelling merchants, a bounty hunter that bandits feer, a mercenary looking to shoot for a buck, or even a military leader of someone elses faction looking to CRUSH those beneath your steel boot All in all, I LOVE the game, and would really like to get a discord server and host an Avorion server + Community just to enjoy the game a bit more with the multiplayer mode 10/10 game, Would Recommend to EVERYONE Have a nice day ladies and gents And I hope Boxelware never abandons this masterpiece of art