Empyrion Galactic Survival
Empyrion – Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure. Build powerful ships, mighty space stations and vast planetary settlements to explore, conquer or exploit a variety of different planets and discover the mysteries of Empyrion! Fight human, alien and biological hazards and survive in a hostile galaxy full of hidden dangers. Play as a lone wolf or team-up with your friends, build new friendships, create alliances or make war to conquer the solar system. Empyrion uniquely combines elements from space simulations, construction games, survival games and ego-shooters. In Empyrion, you can forge your destiny in a galaxy with infinite possibilities! Space and Planet Exploration: An absolute free-roaming experience awaits you: warp between planets, fly from planet to moons, land on planets and freely walk around to explore your surroundings. Discover the secrets of different alien races and tangle with the native fauna and flora. A sandbox full of different, vivid planets is waiting for you to explore! Solar System and Open World: The solar system is procedurally generated and features several planets and interesting POIs. Each planet has its own characteristics (planet type, gravity, atmosphere, number of moons, terrain, surface, vegetation, climate, and resources).
Steam User 121
I don't think that anyone will see this comment but if you do then I will tell you that this game is absolutely the best game of its own category and the price is just right. There are some bugs depending on that if you are playing on a server or just single player but I personally have been playing on official servers only.
Shortly: Empyrion - Galactic Survival is space crafting open world game that you can play on your own or on a server with some friends. You start with some tools to help you get started and the tutorial is good and simple. Some things can be a bit difficult at first but the community of this game is so friendly and helpful. You can craft your own vessels from scratch or just build a pre-built ship from the Steam Workshop. You can decide that if you want to play PvP or PvE and I personally like both (PvP of course only available on a server with other human players).
I recommend even trying out and if you still after reading this comment don't know that if you want to buy this then no worries because there are lots more positive comments about this game.
Thanks for reading and give a thumbs up :)
Steam User 82
If No Mans Sky is Coke and Starfield is Pepsi Empyrion is RC not as many people drink it but if you do you enjoy it.
Steam User 116
Building your own ships and bases - YES
Digging in the dirt and space rocks - YES
Eradicating different planets' fauna - YES
Getting scarejumped in Abandoned buildings - YES
Engaging in space battles between massive spaceships - YES
Absolutely MASSIVE starmap - DAMN YES
Farming tomatoes - YES
Fairly frequent updates from the devs - YES
Excellent mod and blueprint community - HELL YES
Affordable price - IF YOU AIN'T HOMELESS, THEN YES
I spent a lil bit of my time and I say it is a YES from me.
Cheers
Steam User 73
I'm going to be honest I've not played a game this fun since Rebel Galaxy or Vanilla World of Warcraft back in 2004.
Something about Empyrion feels very immersive. I think it's the hunger your character gets, I think it's all the various status effects you can get, the need for oxygen in your space suit. Maybe it's the fact that you can build a ship from a planet surface, fuel it, put whatever parts you want on it, then take off enter the atmosphere and keep going right on up right into space.
Once in space can then warp to a nearby moon for planet in that solar system (with a Small Vessel equipped with a warp drive) . Tons of more people should be playing this but it's a relatively unknown game. It's better than Eve Online, it's better than Starpoint Gemini 2, better than X3: Terran Conflict, better than Star Citizen, and honestly it's better than Bethesda's new Starfield.
They're bugs but personally I've not experienced very many. I once got a terrain bug on one of my bases after I took my single player saved game and went into creative mode, I saved the game before taking myself out of creative mode - when I came back the terrain had changed and my base near water was now not near water. The game developers warn you about this happening when you go into Creative. I've experienced more bugs on multiplayer than single player 'Vanilla' / Default version. Most of the bugs I've experience seem to be server specific, related to quest not completing, or have been around for 5+ years. I only know they've been around that long because I play with a veteran who has played for 6 years.
I look high and low for good games to play. PS5, XBox X, gaming computer are all at my disposal. What do I come back to play during my gaming sessions ? Empyrion Galactic Survival with Reforged Eden mod.
It's the best 20 dollars I've ever spent.
Steam User 39
Great game, very similar in principle to Space Engineers, but space engineers is more tuned towards player creativity, and they are very clearly separate games. Empyrion is more focused on exploration, simulation of survival, and is more suited to be a singleplayer survival save game than Space Engineers. Very good if your looking for that, I enjoy it and I am a veteran Space Engineers player. It's unique, made with love, and has its own place among space survival games.
Steam User 42
I personally would have to say that this by far is the favourite game in my library, also the most value for money when you compare cost to hours played. even this long after release they are still adding content/ updates / bug fixes to the game. There a some really good communities out there for this game and some good servers as well if you wish to play multiplayer. The game has a lot of great workshop items that can be downloaded and used in game built by very talented creators and artists.
Then if you include the custom scenarios such as Reforged Eden which has more content over vanilla it all adds up to hours of endless entertainment.
You can either play single player or connect to a MP server and play with friends, playing with a group is fun esp when running poi's.
Personally if you are new to the game it can be a steep learning curve from first spawn to building your first capital vessel but there is a good in game tutorial and several good YouTube videos out there on how to do things.
Overall there are so many things to see and do in this game and it is up to you as the player how you survive and progress.
Also i would recommend joining the official discord and the forums. have a look round and go from there.
Steam User 44
fun and less confusing than space engineers