Empyrion Galactic Survival

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.

Good basis for a survival game (nearly 3000 hours in, I still enjoy it - planet-side survival, horror, exploration, mining, crafting, building, ship-battles, open universe, multiplayer), but the recent paid DLC (Dark Faction) is not getting much love.
The game is so much better if you add the Reforged Eden scenario (free pre-packaged mod/DLC) which is available from the workshop (just subscribe to install); very comprehensive rework and there are lots of servers out there which run it too (search "RE" or "Eden" in the filters when looking for a server).
There's a new work-in-progress revision of that scenario that's just hit beta a couple of weeks back (again, freely available in the workshop), which is even more fun though isn't mature yet (search "RE2" or "Eden 2" or "Beta" in the filters when connecting in multiplayer), though as it's only just beta there are a few bugs (none that serious or frequent, that I've seen after a hundred hours or so in the beta).
As with all incarnations of the game, the "ailment" system can be frustrating early on (bitten by a spider and poisoned in your first minute in the game? You're dead - it will just take a few minutes more to realise that, as you won't find/make any meds in time) but the new RE2 beta makes that somewhat better, and as long as you know what you need to make the meds, and search for them, quality of life (and duration of it) is much improved. As soon as you're in space and can buy meds from OK'y Medical vendors, it's not generally a problem again (though, being scragged by an Overseer and irradiated is still a nuisance!).
As a minor gripe, dialog from the vendors is dire (I really don't care that everyone is Bertram's cousin!) as is the dialog presentation, and the game could do with more interesting quests but RE2 may fix that.
Love this game.

1,237 hours played!
The community is what makes this game great.
Could it be more, absolutely!
Is it perfect? NOPE! NOT EVEN CLOSE.
The game is forever changing, do to the community of mods and builders.
Its one of the most fun and irritating games you will play.
Have fun!

This game is everything I wanted Space Engineers to be, npc to fight, large galaxy to explore, missions. Now I need a crew. Would be nice if the NPC crew would move around the ship/ base

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

As an experienced SE player, I switched to Empyrion for a few reasons.
1.The game is not an empty environment, it has random pirate ships, random trading stations and fauna and flora on the planets, there is a lot of PvE combat.
2.In this game having a second operator on the ship is a big bonus, the turrets operated by Humans have more shooting options, generally a ship with a crew is stronger and is not just a ship with turrets ,for example artillery turrets in the Human operator option can shoot EMP, which is quite effective at knocking down enemy shields.
3.Fighters from small blocks are very important in the game because CVs are useless on planets, Fighters also have greater strength as shield attackers, generally small fighters are important throughout the game which this aspects was very discredited in SE.
4.The game has a lot of infantry combat aspect, where you have to attack stations and take part in gunfights,
5.Very large galaxies with many planets and moons with different shells, endless time of research and discovery ,POI ,mines ,reactor , towns full of spiders or bugs ,fight fight fight.
6.I was delighted that gold is gold and platinum is platinum, money is important in this game ,this is your choice if you get gold how you are going to utilise it as resource or money.
Please don't get me wrong, SE is a great game but all the shortcomings it had were filled in Empyrion, Empyrion generally gives you game satisfaction until the very end, it's hard to reach end game status and start to get bored ,for me 90% score ,there are negatives such as Graphic in comparison to Star Citizen or small bugs but game is great.
*SE = Space Engineers

This game is currently in the Humble Choice for June 2024, and this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before July 2nd, 2024, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
Another survival game in the No Man Sky’s vein.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival is a survival game on alien planets. The big selling point is the ability to create large-scale ships, and you can pilot massive ships in this game. You also will have to earn those ships by digging up ore, building components, and developing a large ship one piece at a time. Think of the biggest Minecraft build you ever made, and think about it as if it was a functional spacecraft as well.
But that also might be the issue with the game. It feels like everything takes a long time to do in this game. You’ll likely have to farm a lot of ore to make this work and that also means you’ll have to find a lot of that ore. I’m sure there are ways to make all of this work faster, but in general, the experience feels slow. Also, the tutorial doesn’t work well and tries to tell a story but also fails to teach players too much, and the main game has its short tutorial which is better.
Finally, I felt a strong pull to just go play No Man’s Sky, which admittedly is a more simplistic game than this, but if you just want to zoom around the galaxy, No Man’s Sky or Elite Dangerous does this far better. If you want to feel like you earned the right to explore the galaxy, then Empyrion will give you a better sense of satisfaction for that. Also, the game does feel a touch rough around the edges. It feels almost like it’s not finished, but that’s probably due to how the game has to be made to allow so much freedom in what you can create… which also means you’ll have to spend a lot of time looking online for tutorials or assistance.
Pick this up if you want a game where you can build your spacecraft and explore the galaxy. This is not a fast game and will take a lot of effort if you don’t play creative mode. There is a strong depth to the game, and the ability to dig into the ground is unique, but also it feels like the progress in the game is a bit slow and I wasn’t seeing a way to get upgrades that I was hoping for, which probably means it’s on a different screen.
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