Transcendence

This game has a lot of combat, but with most weapons you can't aim and dodge at the same time, and your ship is 10X more powerful than the enemies anyway, so there's little point in even trying to dodge. Just exchange hits and grind to get better gear if you need to. Until a couple of hours in, when you get auto-aim weapons. At that point just spin in circles to avoid getting hit, while automatically clearing the screen in seconds. What is disappointing is how easily this could have been fixed. As other games in the genre have done, add strafe or reverse thrust, scale down the player's strength, and make shooting cost energy or overheat or overwise have something to limit the rate of fire. This would have made combat engaging, challenging, and skill based rather than just based on who can tank damage longer. This could then have been one or my favorite games, as the story and world are otherwise engaging enough to keep me playing.

21 hours and i have not even done half of it, the game has the potential to be big, It is like Sid Mier's Pirates game but in space, and better. The Star systems are full of things to do, you will have many ships to choose to reach your destiny, and so many different playstyles. yet, i cant outright recommend this game to people. There are things to do yes, but they are very similar, there is story but it takes time to be interesting. There are no room for errors. fail a mission once, never getting that again (but that cannot be counted as entirely a fail), while in the menu i mistakenly shot a friendly space station and it is still hostile, there is not enough information in game or on the interrnet to figure out what is the best thing to choose for your ship, and the game is not designed to train you to learn it as you go as well. There are some missions that if you follow you understand or get an idea of where everything is in a system but all the time. i do not live in that universe, i cannot be trusted upon to know about it from the start. I noticed something very odd, very basic achievements are being shown as rare, as in less than 10% or 8% of the people have achieved that, for example finishing an escort mission for the first time, That is too easy to actually be a rare acheivement, so i think many people are buying and/or starting this game but loosing interest very early on but do not feel bad enough to leave a bad review.l apprerently the game has been in development for 10 years, and still being developed,( not sure but think that is what i read somewhere). There is a free version of the game allegedly which has parts of the game without the extended adventures. it is good idea to try that before buying if you are on the fence or never played a game like this. But some people have mentioned bugs and i have to say i cannot recall encountering any. Do I recommend the game? hard to really say. it is too much work for what it is, also repeatative. I think there needs to be two updates, a quality of life update and a campaign structure and mission variety update. As i said the game has potential but has not reached a certain level that i can recommend this to my other friends. The game is still being updated so it might get better? hope it becomes "project zomboid" of space exploration games. for now, Potato is at a loss about recommending it.