Don't listen to the negative comments, if you're looking for a true guide to what Starship Evo is as a game, here it is.

This game is outstandingly impressive for one that's developed primarily by a single guy. Compared to modern games, it's $32.50 pricetag (In CDN at least) is not at all horrible, and for what it has to offer I think its more than reasonable.

Wether you should get this game or not a few years ago for the price was questionable, but it is more than worth it now.

Who should get Starship Evo? Starship Evo is primarily a starship design game, however it dabbles in Factories and Survival. Factories and Survival are more recent, however still entirely playable and (definitely) fun. I'ven ever experienced so much freedom in a game before, the lack of "balance" restrictions is amazing. Don't get me wrong though, this game isn't unbalanced, it's just it takes engineering to another level where whatever you can engineer works, it's not limited by mining beam caps, ship size caps, weapon caps, and such, if your power system can handle it, your ship is large enough, and you have the resources, you can make it happen. This level of freedom is something Iv hardly seen in games, and when you mix it with the highly detailed ship designer its amazing. If you can dream it, you can build it.

If I had to tell you what the game feels like, I'd say its the child of Space Engineers and Stormworks. Arguably better and worse in some areas.

I'd give the ship designer a 9.5/10, Its amazing, however there are a few little things that could be ironed out or added to help it. The bugs experienced in game depend on what area your playing. Generally I find that building the ships and using them is a nearly bug free experience if not fully bug free, which is incredibly impressive for a one man job. Everything space based is also incredibly well developed and relatively bug free, the only problems that exist really is Survival. Survival has quite a few bugs to iron out, however it only JUST released a few weeks ago. There are many people complaining about bugs, and I share their frustration, however all we have to do is give it time. Most of these bugs are so repetive the next bug fix is sure to squash them and we can play this addicting game without encountering such problems soon.

I think another really good part about this game is how the progression feels. It's slow, but not in a frustrating way, its perfect for the game. The speed allows you to experience every end of the game (some optionally) at a healthy pace which really adds to the experience. Areas like creating your first starships and mining ships no matter how many worlds you've played are such a proud moment and such a jump in technology (as it should be) that it really does reward playing.

Overall, if what I've said interests you, than get this game. I bought this game blindly OVER space engineers (on this account anyways) and I could never be more proud of my financial decisions. I have been slow in my pace, but its still such a fun game, and I owe the developer my most gracious thank you, for creating such a masterpiece.

I’m walking away after 32 hours. Coming from 700+ hours in Stormworks, I loved how stable and smooth Starship EVO feels compared to the mess that was Space Engineers 1. It’s a clean game with a great vision.

The Problem: > The game is a "Refit Specialist's" nightmare. If you aren't a master of 3D geometry and voxel tapering, you are essentially locked out of the creative loop in Survival. There is currently no functional way to import a Workshop hull and simply "engineer" the internals without placing every single geometric block by hand.

The Verdict:
If you are an artist who loves sculpting, this is a 10/10. If you are an engineer who wants to focus on logic, systems, and "making things work," you will find yourself hitting a wall of tedious manual labor. It's a "simple" game that makes the most basic task (building a hull) unnecessarily complex

Id say it has impressive voxel technology, rendering distance, it is a great building game. If you are looking to toss out Space Engineers I'd say it's almost time. If you want multiplayer or survival I would wait. But if you want to explore, build, fight, and such in creative, especially at much larger scales than what Space Engineers has to offer then certainly try now.

THE developer is extremely dedicated to the game, unlike others. I have carefully watched the development and it has bugs certainly, but this isn't a AAA company, it is one person, one goal, that's what I support.

Note, my computer specs had shader glitching, dev's specs are I think a NVIDIA graphics so AMD gpus may have issues through updates, the worst GPU experience I had was water for a single purple planet having issues.

TL:DR dev is a game dev, does job good, many work ahead, no not friendslop.