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An incredible game and experience. Worth playing and buying. All those moral and emotional choices, only to die the day before the finale. It teaches you how to deal with your own choices. Maybe I'll try playing it again someday. A very mature, engaging story (which is saying a lot from a forty-year-old who's been skipping most dialogue in games lately). Beautiful graphics and gameplay. 11-bit at its finest.

If it only worked for longer than 2 minutes, without crashes or freezes (game pass version) I could say it's deserved 9.

Beautiful game in all terms - graphic, story, emotions, made with love. I like the combat system. But the story is the main driver for me and the bold, creative world design.

Deserves a remake. Fighting is very good, maps are good. Nice gameplay and a story.

Rewieving version 5.x with 3 DLC. "Good game with potential to be great". If you want to: build a Galaxy-Wide-Corporate* with your own factories and shipyards that can stand against governments; command whole fleets of various ships; take part in space combats or just to be an adventurer or a space pirate - all from first perspective - this is the game! Overall it looks nice and gives you freedom with a story behind it, and the modding community is great. I like to play this game. But it has its flaws and roughness. Egosoft appears to have taken a Paradoxian** approach, so the base game is very basic.Things from DLCs should be in a base game like in X3/Albion. It still lacks you-would-think-obvious functions or mechanics, and some of them were in the previous game. The GUI - an element you will look at and use most of the time - is not better than in X3 and it's even harder to quickly manage your fleets than in X3. It provides a lot of information, but in a disorganized manner or does not provide the most important information; honestly, Egosoft has had some issues with the GUI for a long time. You can build, you can land on stations and walk around them or walk around your ships, talk to npcs or your crew - but it feels like Egosoft added those things because they had to, not because they wanted us to have a great experience from them (or had an idea for it). At this point, every docking module looks the same, trade shops look the same, offices look the same. NPCs look the same, and they are soulless just like the stations. Those are the main reasons I cannot rate it higher than 7. The modding community helps as much as it can, but it is not their responsibility to make this game great, and there is great potential to be great. *or a Pirate Kingdom in a known sectors at least; their numbers grow with every dlc's ** Paradox Studio took DLC/patch spamming to the skies.

SP is very enjoyable, graphic on ultra is still beautiful in late 2018. Setting in space is awesome and fresh. for PL users: localization is great!