I recommend buying a nice mouse with multiple programmable buttons to play this game. This game works on Linux, which is a huge plus for me. Don't forget to get the DLC.

This game requires time investment from the player. It seems quite boring and slow in the beginning - everything takes forever and it is not even clear what this game is about... You are given a ship, so you can fly, fight, trade like in any other space sim game... No-no-no, that first impression is all wrong - you will rarely fight, you will rarely trade, you won't even fly that much. You will be an entrepreneur, you will manage things and make decisions. This is a game about entrepreneurship!

In the late game you'll probably have a trading empire, which makes money, sustains the galaxy economy, keeps everyone happy, boosts reputation, makes everything and has a military fleet to protect itself and the partners from dangers.

Yet in the beginning you are given a crappy ship, maybe no weapons and a debt. Well, everyone is a racist and they hate you. If you do a mission you'll get few hundreds or maybe a thousand credits. In order to buy a station you need a ship worth of around 50 million... The stations themselves are not cheap either. Not to mention the required reputation to get the license for such a ship. And you probably don't want to make enemies.

You'll have to figure out a way of getting your first million and investing it later to make the money. There are pirates, there are mission and trades, well, there are many different ways to make money. The most interesting of them however is stock exchange. That's right you can make money from shares and their price fluctuations. And later on you can manipulate the stock market to basically get as much money as you want. So the game changes, since the money is not an issue anymore and you start to follow other interesting goals.

Things I don't like about the game. Building an empire leads to lags... The interface in general is not very comfortable. It does not fit the strategic perspective of the game. There are some minor bugs here and there, which are usually easy to avoid, but sometimes can make your ship explode, which is frustrating if you play on dead-is-dead difficulty. There is a limited amount of save slots. If you don't chose Terran there are certain ships you will not be able to build in the end game... In-sector vs out-of-sector inconsistencies, which turn the battle in random or even opposite direction.

Things I like. The amount of content and immersive experience. Lots of tiny details and surprising unique difficult to get rewards scattered in the universe. Ship reverse engineering. Some bug/features that make the game more interesting than without them. Stock market representing actual economy of the system, which allows manipulations with it.

I recommend buying a nice mouse with multiple programmable buttons to play this game. This game works on Linux, which is a huge plus for me. Don't forget to get the DLC. This game requires time investment from the player. It seems quite boring and slow in the beginning - everything takes forever and it is not even clear what this game is about... You are given a ship, so you can fly, fight, trade like in any other space sim game... No-no-no, that first impression is all wrong - you will rarely fight, you will rarely trade, you won't even fly that much. You will be an entrepreneur, you will manage things and make decisions. This is a game about entrepreneurship! In the late game you'll probably have a trading empire, which makes money, sustains the galaxy economy, keeps everyone happy, boosts reputation, makes everything and has a military fleet to protect itself and the partners from dangers. Yet in the beginning you are given a crappy ship, maybe no weapons and a debt. Well, everyone is a racist and they hate you. If you do a mission you'll get few hundreds or maybe a thousand credits. In order to buy a station you need a ship worth of around 50 million... The stations themselves are not cheap either. Not to mention the required reputation to get the license for such a ship. And you probably don't want to make enemies. You'll have to figure out a way of getting your first million and investing it later to make the money. There are pirates, there are mission and trades, well, there are many different ways to make money. The most interesting of them however is stock exchange. That's right you can make money from shares and their price fluctuations. And later on you can manipulate the stock market to basically get as much money as you want. So the game changes, since the money is not an issue anymore and you start to follow other interesting goals. Things I don't like about the game. Building an empire leads to lags... The interface in general is not very comfortable. It does not fit the strategic perspective of the game. There are some minor bugs here and there, which are usually easy to avoid, but sometimes can make your ship explode, which is frustrating if you play on dead-is-dead difficulty. There is a limited amount of save slots. If you don't chose Terran there are certain ships you will not be able to build in the end game... In-sector vs out-of-sector inconsistencies, which turn the battle in random or even opposite direction. Things I like. The amount of content and immersive experience. Lots of tiny details and surprising unique difficult to get rewards scattered in the universe. Ship reverse engineering. Some bug/features that make the game more interesting than without them. Stock market representing actual economy of the system, which allows manipulations with it.