I've loved this game, ever since before it released, up till this point. And I will continue loving this game into the future.

This game had a lot of drama during the release. Mostly because of what they said in interviews, would be in the game, but ended up not being in the game to begin with. A lot of this however, has became reality ever since the game got released, and honestly, having seen all the things it has gone through, did you not like it back then, you would definitely like it now.

From when I was a kid, I always loved science, space, sci-fi and survival, I kept watching videos, reading books in libraries, playing space sci-fi games etc. Fast forward a decade, I hear a friend telling me about this upcoming space travel game. I look into it, the trailer look amazing, and I put it on my mind. 1-2 years later, the game comes on steam, and I pretty quickly pre-order it. Fast forward a bit over half a year, and the game release. A lot of missing content, stuff promised to be in, which wasn't. Steam even allowed people who played longer to refund while staying on the 2 week period. I myself, didn't take the risk of wasting 59.99€ on a cash grab, so I too refunded the game.

Just about a month later, no word from Hello Games after release, I go to our capital (Sweden) to meet my brother, who work in the game dev industry for a company making grand strategy games, played by millions. He's a game developer on a team and has worked on 4 of their games. He told me a likely theory or possibility could be the communication between the Sean Murray and the rest of the developers, and also Sean being nervous and new to interviews, meaning some things he said, maybe wasn't yet confirmed by the devs, or he said stuff planned for after release, and released when the considered the game "finished" after future content releases. This gave me a slight lift, maybe they are still working on the game, actively adding more stuff, soon to release a patch.

And as you know, a couple months later, we get the foundation update, adding base building. This gave me the answer, the answer that they didn't just cash grab, they listened to what the community asked for, and they added it. It's still missing a lot of the stuff promised, but it's the start of it, and the proof that they didn't just take the money and run, and thus, I ended up picking up the game again.

Now fast forward 2.5 years, a few more major updates has been coming, including the really huge update titled NEXT which added fully functional Multiplayer. At this point, it's actually not that bad of a game, and is definitely worth picking up have you not done so already.

I know, as shown above the review text, I have not played this game much, but simply, I have other games to play too, some I play more, some less, and with most games that sit close to me, on a personal level, I play very little of, and honestly, this is probably my favorite one.