This Descent-style dogfighting is plenty of fun once you get the hang of it and lets you do a lot of strafing maneuvers you don’t see elsewhere. If you aren’t pushing a button, you’ll come to a stop (unless you disable your inertial dampeners, in which case you’ll keep moving but have to thrust to change direction). Having more recently played more traditional space fighter games like Star Wars: Squadrons and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, it was a minor struggle for me to get back into this particular groove of flying: instead of opening up a throttle to move forward at a constant speed like an airplane, here your ship moves much more like a character in a typical shooter. There are no opportunities to guide the story with dialogue but at least it seems like it’s going to somewhat intriguing places.
Even the one-off characters that hand you side missions at spaceports have above-average flavor and voice acting. However, his companion characters – including the returning AI sidekick – have a bit more personality. Granted, the main character’s a tad on the bland side, as you might expect from a disposable clone – he only really shows passion when he’s ranting about ramen. So far not much is made of the fact that the galaxy hates clones now and most who learn his true identity will shun him, but it feels like a setup that might add something to his quest to make it as a mercenary and escape the lawless region of space in which he finds himself marooned. The story that’s here is a fairly strong start: it picks up our clone pilot from the first game, except with the interesting twist that this time we’re on his last life: if he dies now he’s dead for good. There’s already a fair amount of it to explore at its early access launch, and it keeps things interesting by mixing in some puzzle-solving to break up the flashy dogfights.
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But it holds onto its free movement system, which makes its combat stand out from other space shooters in style.
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The original Everspace is a cool space fighter roguelike, but the sequel has changed course toward a more traditional action-RPG style, and its series of missions across an open region of space feel a lot more in the vein of Freelancer or Rebel Galaxy Outlaw as a result.
Roguelikes might be enjoying their moment in the sun in recent years (just ask Hades, our Game of the Year for 2020), but Everspace 2 shows that procedural generation isn’t the only way forward.
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