Everreach: Project Eden

Thanks to steam rating system, I can't be 100% accurate with my rating. In gog terms, I give this game a 3/5.
This game is way more amateur than I thought it would be. It reminds me of the tons of "asset flips" that were "popular" a decade ago on steam. Don't judge it too quickly though; it's not exactly another one of those.
According to credits, very few people worked on it. It does feel like a game made by a small team, with rough gameplay animations and cheap graphical features. It feels cheap and the store screenshots are not very accurate illustrations of the game.
It's not all bad. The gameplay pace felt professional. The game didn't feel long or short. The story wasn't anything special, but I can see they tried to make it creative, with twists by the end, and since the story wasn't very appealing, they did well not to stretch it unnecessarily. It ended a bit abrupt, but it didn't bother me.
Voice acting was a highlight for me. The protagonist girl has a voice I found very appealing, performed by Mindy Owen who seems to have worked in other little games as well.
Overall the game is, yes, cheap looking and feeling, but I feel the people that made it were passionate and tried their best, and because of that, the game felt charming to me.
Extra point from me for having random npc females with huge breasts&cleavage, and enemy female soldiers with shinny well shaped butts.

Indie Mass Effect.
Joke comparison aside this game is a mixed bag. On one hand i liked the story, Characters, and world BUT on the other side the game play, exploration, technical problems, and poor rpg elements really drag this down. While i did beat the story it took roughly 4 hours and that's counting me getting lost twice and getting stuck multiple times due to the poor controls of the hover bike sections.
Would i recomend this game? only on a deep sale and only if you know what you're getting into to.

basically treat it as those its a PS2 game thats been ported to PC so you dont get disapointed and get it on sale for 99p do not pay full price... took about 7 hours to finish it twice and get all achievements

Everreach: Project Eden Review – Ambitious but Underdeveloped

Elder Games' sci-fi adventure Everreach: Project Eden follows soldier Nora Harwood as she investigates hostile threats on humanity's first colonized planet. While the game shows clear potential, it ultimately falls short of its ambitious vision.

The Good:
- Impressive visuals and cinematics for a small development team
- Solid gunplay mechanics with effective sci-fi atmosphere
- Clear inspiration from sci-fi films creates an otherworldly feel

The Bad:
- Extremely repetitive gameplay loop becomes tedious quickly
- Limited weapon variety (only rifle and pistol) restricts combat options
- Shallow RPG elements with upgrades that feel meaningless
- Empty, static environments reminiscent of early 3D gaming
- Punishing difficulty that relies on awkward cover mechanics

Overall Experience: Project Eden presents a frustrating case of unfulfilled potential. The core vision of a story-driven sci-fi shooter with RPG elements is compelling, but every system feels underdeveloped and rushed. Within hours, the repetitive mission structure becomes apparent – players find themselves cycling through the same basic objectives while fighting identical enemies with minimal weapon options.

The upgrade system, while present, offers little meaningful progression. Even after investing points into Nora's abilities, the improvements feel negligible, leaving players with the same struggles against the game's punishing difficulty. The beautiful atmospheric visuals can't mask the underlying emptiness of the world, where environments feel more like empty stages than lived-in spaces.

For a small team's effort, there's admirable ambition here, but the execution doesn't match the scope. Players seeking a polished sci-fi experience would be better served elsewhere, as Project Eden needed significantly more development time to flesh out its mechanics and content into something truly engaging.

I do recommend this.
There's a lot of things wrong with this game that make me think that it was just shoved out of the door due to budget / contracts or something. I stumbled across the soundtrack while music surfing on YouTube and thought it sounded good, so I buy the game. The on sale price is definitely the point that makes me recommend this.
It plays like a fan project for Mass Effect with the same love and care put into it as someone's first Portfolio project as something to show off to potential future companies to seek employment at. I haven't really finished yet, but I recognize the effort and charm. The voice acting seems limited, but I assume budget. There is something here.
It's janky, and quirky but I like it.

This wasn't nearly as bad as the reviewers seem to think. Yes, it has quirks for days, but it was entertaining and the story was good. Nora handled actually quite nicely and mechanics worked for me.

On the downside, the game was too short. There was more material to be made to additional story and the length made upgrading slightly irrelevant. I just got a taste for it and the game ended. There are more downsides, but the feel of the game was overall good.

It's very much a Mass Effect-like from original ME1 era and quite a pretty game. How much Unity and DX11 can do that is.

I don't know, you might enjoy it, on a firesale, of course.

Story is quite good but the gameplay is hard. And wow... the controls for hover bike really suck, my 2nd time or 3rd time riding it and it takes a few tries to get to the next checkpoint cause you smash into walls and stuff all the time and at the same time you're being shot at.