History VideoGame / EVERSPACE

* EnergyWeapons: Energy weapons are available along with ballistic weapons. Energy tend to be more effective on shields.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Lasers can be fired in bursts or in long beams.

** To compensate for its lack of shields, Gunships are the only ships capable of using turrets. The turrets will target and fire at any hostiles automatically. They come in [[GatlingGood gatling]], [[FrickinLaserBeams laser]] of [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile]] flavors.

* StarterEquipment: When your first play the game, you first ship is [[JackOfAllStats the Colonial Interceptor]]. You get a [[FrickinLaserBeams Pulse Laser]] and a [[GatlingGood Gatling Gun]] for weapons. Light missiles, a weapon overdrive and a shield booster complement the rest of your equipment.

* SpaceIsNoisy: You hear everything in space, from explosions to weapons firing.

* AttackDrone: Drones are commonly used by all factions, yours included. They are specific anti-drone weapons and drone-only attacks.
* BanditMook: The Outlaw's Cargo Thieves can steal your resources. Killing them release all the stolen goods.

* BossArenaIdiocy: The battle against [[spoiler: Admiral Gorc's Colonial Warship would be unbeatable if Gorc showed tactics befitting an Admiral. Instead of swarming you with his endless squadrons of cloned Okkar fighters, he sends two at most to harass you, while he shifts power from his unbreakable deflector shields to power a slow-firing WaveMotionGun that can be blocked with [[RockBeatsLaser a single asteroid]]. Especially foolish, since he first activated his shields in response to you surprising him with a nuclear missile silo, and it takes five total nuclear strikes to bring him down]].

* ChargedAttack: The Shock Rifle do pathetic damage when fired, but if you charge it first, the damage unleashed will be many time more powerful. The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Scatter Gun]] can also be charged.

* DeflectorShields: The Interceptor, Sentinel and the Scout come with a shield, but not the Gunship. Shields recharge itself over time as long as you don't take any hits. If the shields is fully depleted, it will shut itself down before recharging again.

* DummiedOut: The Scanning Probes have being removed from the game because developers argued that players were too reliant on them. They also wanted to favor the high risk, high reward approach on gamers.

* EliteMook: When you see a "Skull" symbol hovering over on a ship, prepare to face a badder, stronger and sturdier enemy ship.

* FasterThanLightTravel: All ships are capable of going faster than light. All you have to do is to aim at the jump coordinates. This will jump you to next zone and at the end of all zones, you need to connect at the [[CoolGate hypergate to jump to next sector]].
* FinalBossPreview: [[spoiler:The Colonial Warship that [[StalkedByTheBell attacks if if you linger through the Okkar attack waves]] is being captained by [[BigBad Admiral Gorc]], and you take the fight directly to his ship in the final confrontation.]]
* FlashStep: Teleporters work this way. They will teleport the player forward. It can only be used by the Scout.
* FragileSpeedster: The Scout ship. Less hull strength, a weaker shield, but faster and able to equip teleporters. With the right weapons and mods, the Scout can turn into a GlassCannon, like using the Shock Rifle for outgunning enemies and cloak/teleport to evade them.

* GatlingGood: Either as a cannon or a turret. Gatlings are good against hulls but weak against shields. Your starting ship carries two of them as part of its basic loadout.

* GunshipRescue: You can send a distress beacon and G&B ships will come to aid you. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Of course, they will attack you if you've pissed them off in the past.]]
* HomingProjectile: Most missiles will follow targeted ships unless they are shot down, avoided for a time, or completely miss. Missile turrets for this reason are particularly lethal. [[NecessaryDrawback If you take the Beeline subroutine, enemy missiles will never lock on you. Unfortunately, your own missiles will never home either.]]
* HyperspeedEscape: The player has this option to get through each sector to reach the jump gate. However, some areas feature a jump suppressor (a spinning device hidden somewhere in the map, of if the player is ''very'' unlucky, on a capital ship such as an Okkar corvette or Outlaw drone carrier) that must be hacked and disabled before moving on. If a Colonial Warship jumps in and the player hasn't moved on, this is the ''only'' option the player has; engaging a Warship is suicide as it cannot be destroyed and will annihilate you in very short order.

* MirrorMatch: The Adam Roslin you're playing as occasionally crosses paths with other clones of Adam Roslin in the same type of ships you're piloting, and they almost always result in a battle to the death [[spoiler: since both Adams need the DNA fragments in the other to fix their genome]].

* NecessaryDrawback: Some Glyphs and Subroutines will provide you with a perk, but will penalize in some way.
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Some nebula you run into will have strange effect on your ship like disabling your sensors.
* NeutralNoLonger: G&B are indifferent to your fate and will only defend themselves when threatened. With a specially acquired glyph however, they will always be hostile with the Okkar.

* RandomDrops: Loots from containers and destroyed vessels are random. Play at higher difficulty or have the proper perks will increase the chance of better loot drops.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: You can craft anything instantly on the fly, all from the comfort of your pilot seat. It's possible HIVE do all the crafting for you. Either way this is a good thing, otherwise you'll be dead very quick or you'll just throw the game away.
* SceneryDissonance: The environments you fly into are very beautiful. Too bad some of them have shipwrecks from the war, planets' remains and brutal combat take place everywhere you go.

* SprintMeter: Your ship can boost your speed, but this drains your energy.

** The Lightning gun, which is starter weapon for the Sentinel.

* SpacePirates: The Outlaws. They very much behave like space pirates: raiding and attacking anyone while running afoul with authorities. They are different factions of Outlaws.

* SubsystemDamage: It's possible for a large number of ship systems to become damaged, which begins to impede the ships ability to function.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: Some areas have a black hole as an environmental hazard, with very desirable crafting materials (Dark Matter and Dark Energy) floating around its event horizon. However, it is possible to get well within said black hole's grasp and escape it; real black holes exhibit such a strong gravitational pull, that not even light can escape once beyond the event horizon.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Adam and Seth friendship began way back before the war, while they were still attending the academy. Now Seth has a vendetta against Adam, or rather you, one of Adam's clone.]]
* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: Credits is the form to currency in this game. The dollar sign is the symbol used.
* YetAnotherStupidDeath : You can die in very stupid ways like firing explosive warheads at point-blank range, ramming capital ships while un-shielded or [[GunshipRescue calling G&B for help]] when you're already hostile with them.

* GatlingGood: Either was a cannon or a turret.

* InterfaceScrew: Should your sensors get damaged, you will lose all the useful user interface icons indicating where to find loots and where enemies ships are. On top of that, your vision will get blurry, if not downright glitchy.

* KillItWithFire: Plasma thrower spit flames of hot plasma, bypassing shields altogether.

* NintendoHard: The game is a rogue-like and is veeeeery difficult, even on the easiest difficulty. Expect to die and respawn a lot. It's not unusual for enemies to absolutely swarm the player upon jumping into a new sector, with multiple Bombers, Marauders, Scouts and other enemies ganging up on the player along with Webber drones and missile turrets.

A website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign for ''VideoGame/Everspace2'' [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockfishgames/everspace-2 began in 2019]].

* StarterEquipment: When your first play the game, you first ship is [[JackOfAllStats the Colonial Interceptor]]. You get a [[FrickinLaserBeams Pulse Laser]] and a [[GatlingGood Gatling Gun]] for weapons. Light missiles, a weapon overdrive and a shield booster complement the rest of your equipement.

* YetAnotherStupidDeath : You can die in very stupid ways like firing explosive warheads at point-blank range, ramming capital ships while un-shielded or [[GunshipRescue calling G&B for help]] when you're already hostile with them.

In the distant future, mankind entered an unease truce with an alien race called the Okkar after humans colonists started establishing themselves in Okkar space (although they might have been not aware of that). To enforce the truce, a demilitarized zone was established between Human and Okkar space. The player is an outlaw pilot, trying to make its fortune in this demilitarized zone, which essentially a lawless place, full of bandits, greedy corporations and lots of riches.

''Everspace'' was originally developed for Windows personal computers. It has since been ported to Linux and Macintosh computers, as well as the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch consoles.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The Okkar fleet that is following you catches up after you've been in a sector for a while, and will continue to spawn powerful Okkar units until you jump to the next zone. Wait long enough, then a Colonial warship will jump in. It cannot be destroyed, and it's firepower is so overwhelming, that unless the player immediately turns tail and jumps to the next map, they ''will'' be destroyed.

* YetAnotherStupidDeath : You can die in very stupid ways like firing explosive warheads at point-blank range or ramming capital ships while un-shielded.

* FragileSpeedster: The Scout ship. Less hull strength, a weaker shield, but faster and able to equip teleporters.

* EliteMook: When you see the word "Skull" symbol hovering over a ship, prepare to face a badder, stronger and sturdier enemy ship.

* SentryGun: To compensate for its lack of shields, Gunships are the only ships capable of using turrets. The turrets will target and fire at any hostiles automatically. They come in [[GatlingGood gatling]], [[FrickinLaserBeams laser]] of [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile]] flavors.

* NoSocialSkills: Adam is described as this. He is shy and isn't good with people, preferring to focus on his studies. This got him bullied by his peers.

* CosmeticAward: Defeating some ships will award you with a new color for your ship..

* FantasticCasteSystem: The Okkar follow a very hierarchical caste system where every individual's destiny is chosen even before their birth.