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).
Game Discussion
Steam User 46
In light of the recent negative reviews(looking at you dude with 2.5h into the game but can somehow explain how 60 hours of content suck...):
It has its flaws, sure. But it's still an indie game and a labour of love. The devs are trying their best from what I can tell and I keep coming back to just enjoy space. It's better every time, no matter what people say.
If you can look past the flaws, it's fundamentally different to its contenders and offers its own unique experience that they do not or cannot.
If you can't... Fair I guess. But the rest of us love it! Give it a shot if you haven't.
Steam User 28
DISCLAIMER:
I HIGHLY suggest playing this game with Reforged Eden 2 mod/scenario, it adds so much content, and makes the game SO much better, you have no idea.
I've gobbled up 200+ hours of this game in like a couple of weeks, and I'm honestly in love with it. Granted that I'm getting close to the endgame very soon, and it saddens me a bit, but come on, 200+ hours as a baseline for content is pretty amazing.
RE2 has a giant galaxy with a ton of factions, missions, stories, creepy spooky locations and many more other amazing things.
There are a bunch of pretty rough edges (the most jarring are probably the non-rotating night sky when you're flying around moons, while the surrounding celestial bodies ARE rotating, and the ridiculous space distances which should be measured in thousands of kilometers, instead are measured in... just kilometers. Space doesn't really feel big at all, it's quite immersion breaking). The character animations are also pretty bad, devs should probably make them a LITTLE bit better.
Anyway, with a handful of patches and adjustments, this might become the best space game currently on the market. That's coming from someone who has over 1300 hours in Elite: Dangerous and an avid Freelancer lover...
Steam User 21
This feels like an over-ambitious project that was never finished
I love and hate this game to be honest. It's a true sandbox where combat in general is pretty crappy, Your goal is less fighting and more building, collecting things and doing your own stuff.
Storyline is poor, character animations is clunky and choppy but it is so vast with so many possibilities to build amazing things that I can't just drop it.
Steam User 20
This game is basically minecraft in space. It has a bit more story. It's pretty easy to learn. The tutorial is only like 24 hours long and my google search history is only 80% this game. If you don't know what to do, don't worry you will only have to spend several hours figuring out the best way to do it. This is gonna be my "terrible game, would not recommend. 10,000 hours played". It's actually fun.... or addicting - I'm not sure which.
Steam User 30
This is a very well rounded game. alot of fun. It can get as technical as YOU want it to get.
If you want to hang out on the starter planets with the Bobs and stay simple and play EASY and RELAXING, you can.
If you want to space travel 1,000 light years from the viking bay Bobs,, then get busy, get technical, and build a ship that can take you there. Go find an unexplored galaxy & star system where i promise you wont see any other players. Go find a nice habital planet to call your own and build to your hearts content.
If joining up with a tribe and staying on a populated planet with a community is your thing, you can do that too.
We like to get at least 400 light years away from the starters, its in teleport range but far enough out we very rarely ever see anyone.
Build mechanics can be very simple and basic to highly technical.
All depending on what YOU want to do , and WHERE you want to go.
There is NEVER any shortage of things to do. Go to close planets explore, gather resources, or go raiding POI's for goodies and get into battles with un friendly aliens who dont want you raiding their bases.
battle on foot on planets or in space with enemy ships.
but be careful, some of these alien factions are tough as nails and can kick your butt and blow up your ship..
But,,,, the tougher the alien factions, the more valuable the loot.
Some factions can be friendly and after doing a few jobs for them, they will open their stores up and trade with you.
Some factions are extremely dangerous and will attack you on sight.
Some factions space areas are pretty safe, some are extremely dangerous, some zones are even pvp. So pay attention. .
Your relationships with the aliens in your world is 95% totally based on your own interactions with those aliens.
If you attack them, be prepared for revenge. They will also send ships out and attack your base in return.
Explore with caution because there WILL BE CONSEQUENCES.
Good tutorials. It starts out easy and as you learn HOW to play the game, then gets progressively harder.
As you progess, build better weapons and better ships so you can travel further, fight & raid tougher aliens, and gather higher end materials to build even better stuff.
So you can ease into learning.
This game can literally get as tough and technical as YOU want to make it. Or be as easy and relaxing as you make it.
I highly recommend this game to all ages.
AFTER 3880 hours, its still NOT boring and we are still learning and exploring.
Steam User 13
This game has gone through lots of phases and changes. The devs do great work and a lot of the past was not perfect, but they listen to their community and fix the issues when they arise. After a few years of seeing how the devs work I can say they try to listen as much as possible. The game is not perfect as bugs still creep up at times but it is an open space sandbox block game on unity engine after all. I can say with my experiance that the game is worth playing. The hard part is learning the way the mechanices work. I would start with singleplayer tutorial to learn before multiplayer and disabling cpu and weight/volume if its too hard to play with. Regardless the game can be played in any way you like and see fit to your preference even getting workshop scenarios and blueprints others have created for you to spawn in when you get the materials. So yes its a great game with a lot of history, I recommend it.
Steam User 12
pretty amazing sandbox. got 1000 hours out of me on various themed playthroughs in reforged eden 1/2
presentation 2/10
onboarding 0/10
gameplay 9/10
people ive got to play it either bounce off within a few hours or obsess and think about it all day at work then log on till 6am. no inbetween