If you want to experience the feeling of being an interstellar mercenary, searching for treasures and looting, fighting everywhere, getting involved with factions, and gradually becoming stronger, don't buy it. If you mainly want to enjoy ship construction and don't care about the rest, then buy it.

HEY! Developers! I really don't want to negative this game because its excellent ship construction mechanics and logic, and the superior UI/UE. BUT HEY, the looting and ship growth experience are sooooo boring! When I bought all blueprint at second galaxy, game is almost over because the rest only make me do repetitive works.

Here are some little advices:
Why don't I get some parts or unique items when I defeat others? What about elite monsters and bosses. What about the quality of the parts? White, green, blue, purple, and orange? You have the faction setting, right? Factions can definitely show the differences in parts and looting. You also have the reputation system, so why not create some reputation-exclusive parts? I NEED A INTERESTING LOOTING SYSTEM!
There is no concept of time in the game. You can play at 8 times speed throughout the game all the time, but why not design a technology tree related to time? After defeating others, you can study the wreckage, this sort of stuff. Once there is a concept of time, quests can also be linked to it, so it won't be so repetitive and boring.
In the game, you can build and command multiple independent ship. However, there is no difference among the crew members of the ships. Once hired, they can be used directly. This simplification is actually not bad, but only this? too boring. Why not design a commander system? Only one commander can be assigned to one ship. Commanders have their own talent trees and can specialize in various weapon usages or economic gameplay (such as mining, salvage, trading, etc.).
Oh my god, there are so many interesting things that can be added. But every time I see you guys update the game to add some ship templates, it feels like, "We are seriously enriching the game content!" Oh, my, can this really change this extremely boring interstellar gaming experience of players?

If you tell me your game do focus ship construction and not too much in other aspects, I'll change this positive.

Prison Architect in space, pretty much. You can accept quests, increase your crew, upgrade your ship, and extend your ship, jump to different systems, and so on. You can even form a fleet of many vessels.
You can save your game whenever you like, so it's stress-free gaming, as you're not going to lose everything because of a bad decision, unless of course that decision was to play for an hour without saving it. Though it does autosave too.
I love it. It's a relaxing and fun game, it feels like you're building something, making something, which always gives that feeling of satisfaction and that you haven't wasted your time, as you can see your progress.
It's exactly what I was looking for and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

I absolutely love this game. I enjoy the architect aspect of it just as much as the commanding aspect, it has high replayability because of that. I also love that operating the game: the menus and whatnot, is so instinctive.
This game lets me:
1 design shipa
2 paint ships to make them cooler
3 use it against other ships to either as a commander or as a pilot
All of which are incredibly satisfying for me.

If you enjoy making designs and/or testing them against the built-in ships or other players, then I highly recommend this game for you.
If you know you only enjoy fighting aspects of games then it can still be fun, but it can feel limited. Ships can play differently, meaning if you only play with a few designs then the replayability is greatly reduced.
A lot of thought and love was put into this game and I can't wait to see it fully realized by the developers. This game is still in "early access" and its already amazing. I can only recommend it.

It is lots of fun

I want to like this game, but the controls are AWFUL. It's aggravating as hell just to get a storage bay built. Fine details are completely obfuscated and canceling and designating ship parts to do anything are just bad. Scavenging hundreds of materials floating in space individually is completely unnecessarily tedious. Why can't this simply be performed automatically???

When the game hits 1.0 and with a major UI overhaul, I'll try it again.

Just fun

I've only owned this game for about a week but I've already played something like 40 hours of it, its supremely fun, the only downside is that you WILL end up spending endless hours of your life building ships and having a great time.

Peak

Very great and underrated game with an unique concept. Play it!

good game for the cost. Crew is simple to control. over all is a simple game