Sure, there’s bound to be some high-quality goods there, but you will also meet heavy resistance. You might scan with your eyes the edges of a sector and see an outlaw base. Flying around in space looking for lost valuables has never been so high-stakes. It may have a particular appeal – you have to like looting and space fighting and progressive upgrade systems – but its strengths shouldn’t be a non-starter to anyone. Lucky for us, Everspace is a lot more fun than foursquare. It’s like a kid on the playground teasing you for losing at foursquare: you get right back in line as quickly as possible to show that kid what’s what. You run through a space dungeon and get your ass handed to you, but this is just a challenge. On the other hand, few games in recent memory are as compulsively playable as Everspace. Like the main character, I couldn’t help but get the sense that I’ve heard this all before. Large space corporation is met with rising evil corruption until Our Hero has had enough and plots to betray them all for the greater good. This can make the plot feel a little forced and cliche. That said, I can’t help but feel like the roguelite elements were the starting point, and the rest of the game was built around it. The further you go into the game, the more you figure this out by “remembering,” making each playthrough where you improve your ship more important than the last. Every time you die, you go back to the beginning, but you get to keep your credits and upgrades you’ve made to your ships and computer, and this makes sense because you are a clone, and another clone will just come in and take your place when you die. Like the amnesia plot, this is a clever way to explore the roguelite elements of near-permadeath, dungeon crawling and procedural generation all against the backdrop of space. Each jump between sections requries fuel, so it behooves you to fly around and search for fuel and other resources. You start Everspace in a procedurally generated sector with several different areas between which to travel. Why did he make clones of himself? Well, that’s for you to find out. Soon, you’ll realize that you don’t have amnesia, but that you are a clone of an original pilot. Reviewing Your MemoriesĮverspace starts you out as a space pilot who seems to have amnesia, and before you start groaning as I did, give the story some time to kick in. It was true on PC, and it’s true on the PS4. While you’ll find a different rating at the bottom of this page, I find there is a special rating I only give to very specific games, and that’s a 10 out of “Stop Playing the Game and Review It Already.” Saying nothing else about the game’s quality, you can sink a lot of hours into Everspace without it feeling like a big investment. All that said, while finding the market for Everspace on the PS4 may be a bit of a head-scratcher, finding the joy in it is as easy as can be. It’s a Kickstarted roguelite dungeon crawler set in space that already came out on the PC and the Xbox One. And then in flies Everspace, a game that could only sound more esoteric if spoken by a poetry emcee.
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