EVE Online

Recommended! EVE Online is probably one of the most complicated games I’ve ever played, but that’s also what makes it so good. I started mainly mining, and somehow ended up running a corporation/alliance, fitting Orcas and Exhumers, setting up an Athanor for moon mining, learning industry, watching CONCORD response times and spending billions of ISK on increasingly questionable decisions. Pros: - Massive amount of depth and freedom - Mining, industry, trading, PvP, corporations and structures all feel connected - Your ships and ISK actually matter, so decisions have consequences - Player politics, alliances and the economy make the universe feel alive - There is always something else to learn or work towards Cons: - The learning curve is absolutely brutal - The game explains some very important mechanics terribly - Mistakes can cost you billions - You’ll spend an unreasonable amount of time researching things outside the game - Sometimes you discover *after* buying a 4-billion-ISK Rorqual that capital ships can’t enter high-sec EVE is occasionally frustrating, unnecessarily complicated and borderline hostile to new players. I’ve also rarely played anything where I can spend an evening mining rocks and somehow end up planning logistics, diplomacy, security escorts, industrial infrastructure and the financial future of a fictional space corporation. 10/10. I still don’t fully understand what I’m doing.