First off, know that Roguelites/Roguelikes are not for everyone. If you're new to the genre you may have a hard time with this game.

Second, a lot of people are comparing it to Freelancer. It is NOTHING like Freelancer. If anything Everspace 2 is more like Freelancer and note that Everspace and Everspace 2 are also nothing like eachother.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, let's begin. Where do I start?

Well first off, the game is breathtakingly gorgeous, especially considering that you really don't need a powerful system to run this nicely. I'm not sure how low you can go though, since I'm currently running an i9 / 3060ti based system.

Progression through the game for each run is very well balanced, with more powerful enemies and dangers lurking closer to the end of each run. This makes it easier to upgrade your ship as you progress through the system.

While on the subject of progression, it's nice that, although it's a roguelike and when you die, that's it, there is still a base system to upgrade both your pilot and your ships, allowing you to focus on your favorite ship rather than go into battle with a brand new one every time.

The game can be controlled just as well with a controller as it can with mouse/kb for anyone that has had any time at all using the latter.

Stability is not an issue at all. I have over 1000 hours in the game between a couple accounts and have not once had a CTD or any game killing bugs.

Overall a 9.5/10 ~ the only thing I wish is that there was an endless mode that allowed you to progress beyond the set amount of sectors. Being a roguelike that would be an easy implementation I would think.