Despite some excellent visuals and environments, an interesting story, and a decently fun core game loop, Everspace 2 wears on for far longer (30+ hours!) than it should. There just isn't enough juice to squeeze for that long from this game. It wants to straddle the line between a space action game and a Diablo-like loot game, but the "builds" were never really there. Just an increasing level of loot rarity that has you swapping equipment to the bigger number 95% of the time. There's a decently large diversity in terms of ship archetypes, but it's not enough to make a difference. Also, the game makes moving and travelling to be laborious to the point of boredom, and fun action moments are often beset by travel times of up to a minute or more. Also, this game doesn't need puzzles. Way too many of them and they were never engaging. Overall, the core of what's here is decent, but it needs a lot of work and its runtime amputated.