Unique game with enjoyment limited by performance and bugs. Gameplay loops you would find in other space sims, but executed with the biggest scale in a first-person game. Graphical quality was jawdropping when I purchased in 2017 and still looks great even as other engines leapfrog it in technology. Snow builds up on your ships and armors, facial tracking gives your character complex expressions with just a webcam, you go from admiring a planet in full orbit to staring at a texture on a city floor with the same level of fidelity, without any loading screens. Star Citizen has things that other games don't and won't have.

Overall, the vision and promise of this game keep it funded and keep it worth checking out periodically. As development progresses, my play sessions grow longer and longer, and this game will probably soon turn a corner and end up fully justifying its cost. Even after all the obstacles it has faced and promises it has broken, I can't hate on this game.

Class D

This is not a game, it is a decade-long scam, and a very successful one at that. A game that is barely functional, completely unplayable for the long term, has been in development for over a decade with funding reaching half a billion, and selling in-game ships for real-world thousands, when those ships aren't even released.

Even if this game magically becomes playable one day, it will be a pay-to-win experience.