Empyrion - Galactic Survival Reviews

I had started to play this game years ago but put it aside for some reason. I just recently got back to it a month or so ago. I would not recommend this game to anyone for purchase. Only if it's free. Too many problems that have not been fixed. I'm presuming the gamemaker(s) isn't updating it anymore or isn't interested in fixing the current problems. I've been reading a lot of them on the steam community trying to get help with my own problems with it since I never got a response to the issue I sent in. Edit; Aug 14, 2025 - Great. Another game where the game makers force you to start a new game after an update. Pisses me off. Time to move on to a different game.

I've played, as of late, 377 hours! I love this game. I like the variety of game play elements, such as: space travel/combat, exploration, mining, base building, extreme crafting, freedom to follow story-line or wander off on side quests. I play solo style and didn't feel overwhelmed too much. The game does have some quirks with the story-line at times if you deviate, or try to, or mistakenly, jump criteria at certain points of the quest line. This may require you to use a command console to try to correct, mostly achievable, or to reload a previous saved game. Also to note, console commands can be game breaking if done incorrect. Overall I like being able to wander off to explore on my own. Some times this felt like a "rinse and repeat", when not having a completely new building/setting, as many games use now in procedural generation, like No Man's Sky for example. You start to know where loot is positioned/located. Not bad, but bearable. If you like this style or paced game, you can count on many hours of game play. I would recommend it, but check out Youtube gameplay also.

I have lots of fun, but not super exciting all the time. good not frantic.

Probably the best space survival sim you've never heard of. No Man's Sky focuses on the exploration factor, Elite Dangerous more on the flight and fighting, and this is the one for building. You can make just about anything in this game, from small personal vehicles to full-sized towns and starship carriers. I'm hard-pressed to think of a better space game for building. Space Engineers, maybe? X series? Can't beat the price either. $20 is a hell of a deal and that's the full price. Under $30 with the only DLC it's got. Get it when you got nothing else going on. You'll enjoy it, especially if you're a NMS player looking for more pewpew and less exploration.

solid gameplay behind a little jank. this is a great game, farm mats, build a ship custom or blueprint. explore and loot. but beware u can be blown out of the sky instantly when starting out.

This game… this horrible and gorgeous game — full of bugs and rough in every aspect: [list] [*]An incomprehensible and terrible UI. [*]NPCs that get stuck on the tiniest polygon, yet somehow have perfect, instant headshot aim when they shoot at you. [*]Quests that can’t be completed and block your progression. Enemy drones that don’t even react when you fire at them. [*]If your friend turns on the thrusters while you’re not seated, you will clip straight through the ship’s hull and into oblivion. [*]Generic, free 3D assets are scattered everywhere. [*]They took seven years just to add the ability to crouch [*]Many weapons still have misaligned crosshairs. [/list] And yet, with all these flaws, after 10 years and 1,000 hours of gameplay, there’s no other game I want more to evolve and achieve the success it deserves. After all this time, and countless memories playing with friends — memories of instant death by an invisible sniper, but also of traveling in our own handmade capital ship to another system, trying to mine zascosium from a toxic planet by deploying our hover mining vessel escorted by an armed small craft, only to spend hours fighting through a POI swarmed by abominations — I must say: this game is not for everyone. If you’re like me and after spending the GDP of a small country on games you still can’t find another that lets you explore, exploit, and fight across the galaxy with your own creation and you’re willing to scratch beneath the surface and discover the magic in this horrible, unique game — then give it a chance. I just hope my lifespan allows me to see it reach its true potential.

It just seems to lack the "spark" -- you know that "thing" which gives meaning and purpose to doing something, to play something. The world feels surprisingly empty and lonely for all the content the game supposedly has. I don't want to feel lonely.

I don't review lot of games, for reasons that I won't get into here, but I felt that I needed to counter rdunham3's review, which is a negative review from a player that has 736 and a half hours into the game, and offers a negative review because the game is "hard to recommend" because it's "unpolished" and he or she only enjoyed the "first few hundred hours." Okay. Sounds like a positive review to me, so I'm going to nullify his negative, as it's the best I can do. I also have enjoyed many hundred hours in this game, which I feel would be enough to give it a thumbs up, but I'd like to add.. 'with my friends' and 'with little to no multiplayer jank'. I've had some seriously breath-holding moments, the likes of which you might see on the big screen, in this game... waiting for a friend to come sailing over the left ridge and distract a ferocious enemy long enough for me to skitter off to safety. That's an unscripted goldmine, friends. This game is not the golden age of gaming revealed in one purchase, no, but it's a damned fine addition to your library that doesn't deserve a thumbs down by someone who clearly has both thumbs straight up its coded backside. It's a very enjoyable game to play, and if I hadn't played it, I'd consider myself the poorer for it. No lie.

What started out as a promising survival game has not grown to fill that promise. The game is in many ways no better than it was several years ago. They've re-done the storyline and tutorials (a few times) but they're still incoherent. They've added a lot of community-made content, but there's not much reason to interact with most of it. Once you get through the introduction/tutorial things and unlock most of the tech tree you also run out of reasons to continue playing. I did enjoy the first few hundred hours, in early access, but it's hard to recommend the unpolished result that they released from early access as it's really still only half a game.

Tutorial is very very poor to me, explains nothing clearly just says do this make this, no explaination how or what bit of the menu you need to go to or what to click on etc. I don't need super amounts of hand holding in a game but my goodness it's insane. I don't have the rest of my life to try and figure out super complicated menu systems just to make some bloody fuel. Help the player Dev's ffs not everyone thinks like you guys please try and understand that. The game looks great and if things were explained better it would be amazing, so utterly frustrating but i'm done :(