I've been playing this since day 1 of Early Access and I have to say what the team have done so far is absolutely phenomenal. All the planets in the Solar System are there already and Earth has a massive amount of stations that you can use and interact with.

The ships and other vehicles drive and handle really well, there's plenty of stuff to do in side missions. Once you get to grips with the flight controls flying becomes a dream and is really fun and there is absolutely loads to look at and explore. The whole Solar System, in fact! Space Stations around every planet, the Moon too. You can even land on all the Planets in the Solar System that we are currently able to land on 'in real life' and explore the whole surface, should you wish to...

The team are very active on their Discord channel. Feels like you're chatting to friends and they respond pretty quickly to any suggestions, bug reports and server support. Plenty of updates are coming through at the moment and I'm sure they still will for the foreseeable future...

Which brings me to the last point I wanted to make...It's an Early Access game so there are still lots of things to do at the moment. You 'will' come across bugs but I haven't come across anything 'game breaking' so far and they have all been minor gripes which the team are all over if you put a bug report in, and, unfortunately there is currently no controller support at the moment 'in game' but I've easily remapped an Xbox controller which works really well for the time being so please don't be put off by this. The team have assured that controller support is on the road map...I also need to make the point that I've got, at the time of writing this review, 136 hours in and I HAVE NOT HAD ONE SINGLE CRASH WHATSOEVER both online and offline.

In closing what the team have done with this, so early on in Early Access is amazing. They genuinely love the game and deserve the support. If you are on the fence about this, please give it a go, especially if you're into space, flying, exploring...It can be what you want it to be. You can find plenty of stuff to go into battle with, loads of side missions, even now, or you can just whizz around the Solar System in your ship and explore, if that's what takes your fancy...Anything you want. There's no grind to get your first spaceship, you 'aquire' it from a side mission so you're not tethered to Earth for too long if you want to get out there and explore. I've started 2 playthroughs now, 1 online and 1 offline and had my ship by the end of the first night play on both.

I need to mention the flying and space gameplay for a moment - You can jump in your ship at a station and take off, literally just point up and fly into space, all in real time. Once you get up there, out of the atmosphere, you can warp to anywhere there is a station and bring your ship in to land...No cutscenes, no warp effect, you can actually watch out of your ship while warping and see the planets you are passing. It is a great sight to see while you are travelling and something that so many 'other' games don't do well and just go with the generic 'hyperpace' cutscene. I honestly think that if they implemented a 'Fast Travel' system, I probably would never use it, it's that much fun!!!

All in all, this is a great game, even now in it's current state of EA. They are a small French team of developers, who love what they're doing, very supportive on their Discord channel and are currently pushing out plenty of updates. Please give it a go, I'm sure you won't be disappointed...This will be on my desktop for a long time!

Enjoy...

Star Citizen Wannabe and i like it:)

Was able to play the game before the last big update even though it was choppy and slow. I upgraded to a ssd drive and brought a new graphics card RTX3080. Now after the update the game crashes soon as you hit play. waiting patiently for a useful update.