Finaly got myself to buy it.
Been watching this game for a long time now, played the demo a few times but never took the step to buy it. Was I wrong
Did a lot of hours in Elite and don't get me wrong, Elite is a great game but somehow Elite isn't relaxed gameplay for me.. all the hauling, always one eye on your radar watching for pirates and the long travel time gave me a kind of Elite burnout.
Now I don't know how it will be after playing Evorchone Legacy for an 200 hours but after pending 30 hours it feels really refreshing for me. I't a one man's production so yes the graphics are not as fency as elite or SC but with some mods (found some very nice mods for better-looking sky, transparent menu, modified HUD and sounds) this really does look good to me!
The way Evochron fly's for me it's more a "space sim" with all the mouse menu clicking stuff you have to do to navigate, manage your ship, crew etc.. (there is a learning curve!) but somehow it feels relaxed sitting in my cockpit figuring out all that stuff. Must say I'm flying in a tripple screen,
HOTAS, obutto r3volution cockpit setup so alway looking for a "be there" cockpit kind of game)
Getting older I'm not a combat kind of pilot anymore (didn't do any combat yet) I'm more into exploring and trading/mining and it feels very releaxed to me.
I know some people don't like Save game option you got every time you dock to a station , but I do . It gives me the freedom to try stuff out. (remember the releaxing part?)
It's a shame it stays under the radar this much and the community is so small. I'm sure there are more space sim fan's who would enjoy it as I do. And being made by one person it's crazy what it all offers. Planet landing,crafting,storage on stations!,missions,Quests, hiring AI wings, hiring crew, building stations and cities, multiplay with prived hosted server/Universe, multiplay gunner position etc. It deserves better.
I would say try the free 90 min Demo, with hours of free tutorial play time. For me it's a great space sim to play till SC get 3.0 up and tuning.