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Recommended 280.6 hrs on record

TL;DR: A fun game, but not for everyone.



The first thing you should know about this game is that it's a true sandbox. There are no goals except the ones you set so you need to be someone who enjoys setting goals and objectives and filling those on your own time. Fortunately there's plenty to do, so you will typically have a varied experience from other people.



Pros:

-Flight model is great

-Sound design and music is amazing

-Wide variety of different things to do in game, exploration, trading, mining, PvE, PvP, Powerplay, Community goals

-Graphics are excellent

-Wide variety of good-looking and well-designed ships

-Regular-ish updates

-Active playerbase

-Persistent Background Simulation

-Can own player bases (fleet carriers)

-1:1 model of the Milky Way

-Big expansion coming in 2021

-Has improved a lot from 1.0



Cons:

-Grindy: This game has a problem, especially late game, with earning credits and getting materials to upgrade your ship. A lot of mission rewards do not scale well in the late game, meaning you need to resort to some methods of earning money that you may not like or are borderline exploits. These tend to get patched rather quickly

-Griefing: There's a fair amount of griefing in areas like Engineering planets, faction capitals, and community goals. There are a few guides on how to avoid them, or you can play in solo mode, but just keep this in mind.

-Updates usually have a few bugs after installing

-Need to make a Frontier Account

-Microtransactions: ARX is only for cosmetics thankfully, and can be earned in game at a glacial pace.

-Poor tutorial. It does a good job of the basics, but you need to look at community guides and other resources to help really understand the game.

-Horizons DLC is required to access a lot of features like planetary landings and engineers



Overall, I've enjoyed this game a lot. I even bought a flight stick just for this game. I would recommend getting this game when it goes on sale as well as getting the Horizons expansion pass.



