Some private servers like HWS are great lots of content and would recommend, the Official Servers are mostly empty because of the lack of content and a very toxic DEV/Admin that will threaten you. Because the Official Servers are in this state I can not recommend or give a positive review. Less then 30 people play on the Official Server on a good day, the DEV/Admin of the server has banned at least 7 in the last month for suggesting fixes or content on discord. Guess this behavior is the new norm for Games. Probably get banned for posting this review but good thing about Steam is 1000's of non-toxic games to play.

Good concept, but so many bugs, no content, Official servers are pretty unpopulated, probably due to Admin abusing and threatening players with bans for asking if any fixes are being addressed. Would "NOT" recommend game at this time.

Empyrion: Galactic Frustration - A Rage-Fueled Review

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! Empyrion is like one of those games you want to love. It’s got this awesome conceptspace exploration, survival, building, all the stuff that makes you think, “Hell yeah, this is gonna rock!” But then the game grabs you by the throat and screams, “HAHA, SCREW YOU!”

Let’s talk about the hover glider, this pile of unplayable garbage. You think, “Oh cool, I’ll glide around like a badass,” but NOPE. Instead, the controls feel like they were coded by an alien species that’s never seen a keyboard. Steering? On the ARROW KEYS. Who does that?! WHO?! What, did someone lose a bet? "Oh yeah, make it completely unplayable, that’ll really win over the fans!"

And then, there’s the building system. Holy crap, this thing feels like a sadistic prank. You want to rotate a block? Think it’s gonna be R, right? Wrong. Right mouse button? HELL NO. Middle mouse wheel? Ha! Dream on, sucker. It’s Pos1. POS. ONE. A key that most people don’t even have! Who designed this system? Did they actively hate their player base? Was there a meeting where someone said, “Let’s make sure building feels like performing brain surgery while drunk”?

But wait, there’s more! Let’s talk about the music. Imagine peacefully mining rocks or walking through a field, and out of nowhere, the music goes full-on epic boss fight. The most intense, overblown soundtrack ever created meanwhile, NOTHING is happening. Did the composer even see the game? It’s like they’re trying to gaslight you into thinking something exciting is going on.

And the sound design? Oh, don’t get me started. It’s the cherry on this crap sundae. Every little noise grates on your soul. It’s like the devs thought, “Let’s make every sound as annoying as humanly possible.”

I want to like this game. I WANT to. The concept is awesome, the idea is solid, but the execution feels like it was designed by a committee of evil masterminds determined to piss you off. Empyrion doesn’t just test your survival skills it tests your patience, your sanity, and your will to live.

Final verdict? This game is a mess. A fascinating, rage-inducing mess. If you’re into suffering and self-punishment, go nuts. But for the rest of us, it’s a one-way ticket to madness.

0.5 out of 10. Screw this game for now.

I honestly can't believe I've never reviewed this game. I've played it more than any other, and by a pretty wide margin. I should specify that I am mostly referring to Reforged Eden. I've only played Vanilla once and never got that far. I do know that RE adds a bunch of new stuff to the game and ups the difficulty quite a bit (plus RE2 adds even more). However, I am not totally sure what all Vanilla is lacking in comparison.

To start, this game has very long learning curve. It can take quite a while just to learn the basics and it is incredibly deep. So I do suggest that any new players learn the basics in Vanilla and then move on to RE or RE2. I also suggest that they join a multiplayer server even if they don't prefer MP. If they can find someone to teach them about the game, they are going to have a much easier time.

This game can be classified as an Open World Survival Craft or OWSC. Your character requires both food and oxygen to survive, you have a health bar and there are a variety of injuries/infections you can suffer from that give various debuffs. One main aspect of the game is gathering materials and then crafting parts to build with. The building is similar to Space Engineers though you place down completed parts rather than frames. You can mine and process ores and/or salvage for what you need. Once you have a Jump Drive you can travel to new Sectors in the System. Then eventually you can make a ship with a Warp Drive that can take you to new Systems in a massive Galaxy containing thousands of them. The game also has a good amount of combat. There are POIs to fight your way through in first person and also enemy ships/bases to attack with your ships.

One major feature this game has is called the "Factory". After creating a ship or base you are able to save it as a blueprint. Then you can use the Factory to make a copy of said creation to bring into the game when and where you want. You can even bring in things you've subcribed to in the Workshop or built/edited in Creative. So rather than building everything from scratch, you are able to pop in the finished products. It's a really cool idea that I wish many other games had. It's similar to the blueprints in Terratech but they require certain resources rather than blocks. Also each blueprint requires time to build (though this can be lowered depending on what you add to the Factory).

I won't deny that this game has a decent amount of jank and I know it can be particularly frustrating when you are first learning. Building on planets is annoying (especially if you haven't figured out how to use the Drone). HVs are a pain to scoot around in due to all of the trees and rocks (hold O to level yourself). Plus there are many other aspects that can cause new players to see the game as poorly made. On top of that, the game doesn't have the best graphics and the engine is prone to glitches. However, if you can get past these issues, this game has an unmatched amount of freedom and exploration. I honestly see it as one of the best games ever made.

TLDR: If you are looking for an OWSC with a ton to learn, where you start from nothing and build up a fleet of ships you use to explore and conquer the galaxy, then this may just be the game for you.

So incredibly boring. Unfinished, unpolished and unfun. But on the other side it makes me wanna play wity real LEGO again.

Constant Warning of Low Memory. At one time I was able to play this, but seems now I can't sorta feel I made a mistake even buying this.

Too buggy, boring with an overcomplicated UI. Games are meant to be fun, this just isnt.

If this game was still in Early Access, I would recommend it, saying that it has great potential. However, it's riddled with bugs and jank not befitting for a game that has "fully" released.

Not fun, annoying to do any base building and a buggy mess

It's a sandbox + block building game in space with combat.

However:
- Horrible UX
- Horrible sound design and mixing
- Too slow progression
- Too little progression
- Too fast leveling
- Too little time savings by progression
- You interact with the world, but the world does not interact with you
- Lack of automation really, you never "truly solve" a thing
- It can't be, that even fully maxed out into the game, you are forced to spend 5 minutes "on foot" going from planet to planet despite having a JUMP DRIVE. And you'll be doing that alot, in theory.
- Scanning reveals too little, it takes an hour to map a large planet, and it is unfeasible to map an orbit. Even if your radar hits something, you spend minutes crawling up to it to check out what it is, and it's some procedurally generated slop that will be mostly useless to you. But on entry into a system it shows you the kinds of asteroids that exist or for a planet the numbers of ore veins. I feel this system is upside down.
- No real economy. Either you don't have something, or you have it, and can't convert it to value.
- It takes minutes to get through a single enemy ship.
- Salvaging then takes 20 minutes of just "holding your laser on the ship" to get the spoils for that fight you started to get things out of it in the first place

Don't play it, it will take your time. I mean I just barely got past the "tutorial" and into my first CV

The beginning was exciting, but once the reality hits you of how you don't get any returns for progressing, and your progression doesn't unlock real capabilities, builds for ships aren't really diverse, and bases and planets are 100% useless, and the rest of the gameplay will be waiting for your ship to move, waiting to scan and waiting for a super slow action to finish, it's boring.

Only reason I still "recommend it" is if you've run out of autísmo-level games to play, this game can still provide something to get lost in to "learn the sandbox". It's just that it's not too satisfying to achieve finishing "learning the sandbox" of this one.