Everspace

If you can get past Everspace's few flaws, a game that merges the best parts of roguelikes and space shooters exposes itself. The game manages to stand on its own as a unique entity within both the above genres, so Everspace should have no problem finding an audience in the sea of modern roguelikes and space shooters.

Everspace is one of the best space combat games on the market today.  It's fun, beautiful, and a blast to play.

Get ready for a spacefaring roguelike where you are a clone who slowly remembers who he is by recalling memories that aren't his.

Developed by ROCKFISH Games, Everspace is a gorgeous space shooter that manages to seamlessly blend high speed action, methodical scavenging, and serious roguelike elements both in the execution of its gameplay and its control scheme simultaneously. You’ll begin the game setting out into space, having little in the way of a backstory beyond the somewhat typical trope of some amnesiac-like symptoms...

While reminding us just how much we’d love to see FTL on Switch, Everspace manages to carve out an impressive identity for itself. With gratifying space combat, an addictive ‘rogue-lite’ core loop and even some light, entertaining writing along the way, it performs admirably – if not flawlessly – on Nintendo’s console. Overall, we had a hell of a time with it and this port does a cracking job of p...

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Everspace: Stellar Edition manages to fit the vastness of space into the small and portable Nintendo Switch. The devs had the framework of the well-received "bigger" versions of the game but how much did they have to compromise to make it work on the Switch? Find out in the review below.

Everspace ticks the boxes it needs in order to be a good roguelike, at least in terms of gameplay. The 6DoF control scheme gives unprecedented freedom to combat in the subgenre. Weapons feel satisfying to use and its permanent progression makes it so that you don’t feel your time is wasted. That being said, it misses the mark with its completely forgettable story and relatively unfulfilling explor...

An enjoyable roguelike space shooter, Everspace's odd design decisions and inconsistent level of polish sadly prevent it from realising its full potential.