I enjoy space games immensly and I do hope for this game to turn around, but currently I can not recommend it.

Horrid controls, Feels very clunky for me.
Updates are far and few between.
Dead community - Lucky to see 2-5 people online.
Latency issues (I can live with that, I live on a rock (Australia - connected via 100/40 m/s Cable connection) and have to deal with high pings, but this is 3-5 times worse than any other MMO I ever played.

I really wanted to see this game do well, but in its current state I dont hold much hope, but this is the change we take when grabbing early release games.

Shall re-visit this maybe in another 6-12 months and I do hope that a miracle has happened and its turned around and doing well. Which I hope I can change my review to a positive one and a Thumbs up.

If you see Entropy on a Steam sale for a buck or two, it be worth it, But until its at release and showing promise I wouldnt pay current retail.

This one is quite bad.....fell through the cracks in the floor after it got to complex and the actual gameplay itself i was not impressed with. 4/10 i give this one

No one online.

Have to restart the game ever few minutes as all buttons stop working.

Terrible.

I got 100+ hours in this game and I've very mixed. If you like "buy low here, sell high here" then you should enjoy this game.

However, looking at the bigger picture be warned. It seems the game devs have simply stopped updating the game. I have seen no activity in months (currently Oct 2014) Worse over 99% of the community has left.

So if you like playing a MMO all by yourself with little fear of hostile action, then yes you'll enjoy it.

The game is very much fun. I played at the early access and the population was a little bit small now knowing the grows the game totally catches one self. the athmosphere, the soundtrack does the rest, gives you a real good sci fi feeling.

i am a pvp maniac and yes ... that game is awesome for pvp its tactics etc are very much of what you need!

The grafics are awesome too plus the handling of the ships is somewhat unique. The developement team is very much into patching and working with the community! so that i like!

so go play and maybe add me :D

Still in early access, so not a hugely diverse game at the moment; however, the developers are commited and active in updating the player base on the games progress. At the moment the biggest let down is the 2D map travel system, which makes the game feel much like a spreadsheet strategy game like EVE. They are working on switching the game over to a 3D travel system, once this happens I think the game will be way more immersive and enjoyable.

Nice, NOW the game requires a 64 bit Windows Vista or 7 system to run? When I purchased it, it said it would run on Windows Xp. :( Yes I know that Xp is outdated, but some of us can't afford to just go out and buy a new system. Steam DOESN'T give refunds on Early Access Games, I've tried for another Game that Started out with WinXp 32bit and went to Win 7 or 8 64 Bit...
I LIKE the Game, it's Fun, Nowever, apparently I'm now out of luck. :(

This game has a good idea, and good background to it, but as for the details, it's just not there. This game is too under developed still when it comes to character creation and story. The free roam is amazing, but the gameplay is just not there. Was not impressed with this game, or the price for that matter, I kind of want a refund... but I can't so. I don't recommend this game to people who like high action packed games, I played a game like this before, with less detail than this game, and I liked it better. Also, if you make a female character, it still has a male voice, don't know if you can change that or not, but I find that kind of stupid, a minor detail such as that one, could have been added.

This space at it's finest! Everything I could want without having to invest my own moey like EVE.

This game really is very cool, its along the lines of freelancer and the Egosoft X universe games, with no doubt more to come from the devs at a later date. The learning curve is there however by using the forums.community boards you will soon settle into a great game. Buy it.

I reviewed this game before, and was forced to initially give it a "thumb's down". The developers never showed up, and the game play was anemic. Though I never suspected that ENTROPY to fall into the same calibur as other more advanced space sims, I do look for a certain amount of challenge along with an ease of immersion.

Now, I am glad to say that the devs for Entropy has brought ther game to a higher level, removing the 2D environment, making this RPG much more enjoyable. Though the game still has a long way to go, the changes made recently, brings my personal review up to be adjusted.

So many space sims have been coming out, and most of them are demanding high CPUs and high GPUs to run them. Entropy does not. If ytou ae looking for a good game, check out Entropoy.

This game is awesome and what is more awesome is that the developers are working hard to make it in to exactly waht the players are asking for. It has alot of content already and alot more interesting content have been planned so it has GREAT potential. Every patch is like christmas, they are great and frequent.

10/10

wont work on my new imac

First of all this game is in a early stage. There are issues and bugs so before you even consider buying it you need to ask yourself if you're patient enough to help an upcoming MMO shape into you want it to be. If you do not have the ability to be able to figure how the game works on your own and deal with problems then I would say your best bet is to move along.

The game is a great concept with lots of potential in my eyes. The graphics are nice and even though there weren't a lot of character creation options (hopefully a lot more will be added) I still made a character that I was happy with. When I first logged in everything was pretty much easy to figure out. Once I got to the station after following my quest line I came across an issue with being unable to find an item to complete my quest.

Once I was able to continue with my mission progress I received another quest asking me to go to an Unknown Sector - I am now unsure of what to do. I leave the station and port out onto the map and there is no direction telling me where to go. I tried exploring on my own but was killed several times. I plan to try again today and figure out where I need to go.

As for combat it's very smooth and fluid and the only thing I don't really like is having to hit "alt" for free mouse movement, which normally but be fine, but it puts your ship in a bit of a freeze frame yet still moving though space. If you could just keep your camera the same and use free mouse that would be great!

Overall I see myself sticking around to help the progression of the game. The devs seem really nice as I have spoken to them and just really friendly people who really want to make a great game that is community focused.

**Update**

I never figured out the mission I was working on and instead I abanonded it thinking it was bugged (it was) then later found out that there is no way to pick up a dropped mission (it was told to me a fix will be implemented to pick abanonded missions back up.)

I decided to try going back to the first station you come across and when I did the mission board was full of missions and the encounters were a lot easier and "green" to me. Only issue I find now is I don't get credit for the missions.

So figured I would toss in a quick update on my review to let everyone know a little expoloring and things can be figured out without tool tips or a guide. However, I do really hope to see a lot more explantion in mission logs and tool tips.

This game does have a lot of potential but it's just way too early to buy now. I can't seem to complete any missions beyond the tutorial. I get pirate kill missions and don't get credit for any of the kills. I did "find thief" missions and no one could find where sectors 1 - 5 were. All the space traveling is done in a 2d birds eye view, which I am not a fan of. This game is extremely instanced and each instance is very small. I hit loading screens every 3-4 minutes on average. I tried using my saitek x52 pro and there seems to be no joystick support. I think this game may be fun in the future but at this time I feel like I purchased this game thinking it was something else than it is.

Summary : Boring 2d game, Buggy, And extreme griefing of new players.

This game is now setup to allow griefing of any new player. Existing players were able to exploit bugs in the game to trade up to the top level of ships and weapons. They could not be attacked whilst trading. Then the developers turned on pvp for all new ships from high level players. The only efective way to build credits to upgrade your ship is to trade. if you trade any player can simply fly past you and take your goods with a couple of button clicks destroying your ship. There is no place you can go no skill or option you can use to prevent this. it takes many hours to build up trading credits and goods it takes seconds to be put right back at the beginning. If this happens you are best deleting your character and starting again as you will then at least get starting credits again.

Mining , salvage parts of game are redundant. Rolling a pvp ship to begin is also redundant still get killed 1 -2 shots outside your range by a ship that i faster than you and beins the pvp session directly behind you ship.

I have never sees a worse setup to ensure griefing of new players in many many mmos i have played.

Also there are only three quests in the chain followed by pointless and broken find a theif. and pirate killer missions.

You can be ganked whilst trading, you can even jump into a quest instance of another player and gank them.

This game is setup for children who like to walk around the playground with their gang stealing from everybody else. nothing more.

Worst most boring mmo ever i've wasted my time thinking this would be a new 'elite' or fun space trading game.

Last but by no means least the game constantly has issues on combat / quest loading screens meaning you often go into combat but cannot see the screen.

Way to go Entropy beta / alpha or not one of the worst implemented mmos ever. Wooden spoon of the year maybe the decade.

Played the game to level 5 and 10 million credits as i was lucky to get in before they turned the griefing on. I could buy a top level ship now but am leaving anyway as the ethics of this game are so poor now i see new players come and pretty soon leave in disgust after being ganked in starting space repeatedly laughed at and told to learn to play by the rude and offensive existing player base.

Can't believe i actually parted with money as well as my time for this. A 2d space game in 2014 wow way to go this would be poor by the flash / web / mobile game standards.

I know its in Alpha stage so a lot of the fanboys and devs are saying its alpha dont complain. Please don't get fooled like a lot of us did. There is nothing to do no pvp no free flight through space you fly on a 2d map for 80% of the time yer playing, 10% of yer time on a space station with no missions and the other 10% flying around either mining rocks or dropping of cargo. So if you want to be confused and bored out of yer mind then by all means give them some of your money. The color orange is overused too imo. You would be better off playing Star Conflict or Eve or anything for that matter. Im not trying to be mean im just being honest.

First thing is first. This is early access, so there's going to be a lot of bugs and features that just simply aren't created yet.

With that said, this game popped up out of nowhere and is a pleasant surprise. Imagine if Freelancer & EVE Online had a kid. In fact, my first impressions of Entropy feels like an open world Star Conflict with mining & trading.

There are a lot of quirks with the combat, system travel, trading, etc. and it will take a bit to get used to. For instance:

There is a lot you have to figure out for yourself. You simply can't right click on an object and get info for it right now. Flying around sectors needs an overhaul. I see what they are trying to do, but moving around on a 2D plane just takes me out of the game - but thats how you get to places. Everything takes place in little zones and you can't exactly explore to your hearts content, as you are unable to go outside of the "grid". There are tons upon tons of loading screens. Everything you do = loading screen. They just released a patch that has made loading significantly faster, but I wish that there was less 2D traveling/cutscenes and more space.

All in all, Entropy is a nice little surprise before Christmas. I recommend it to anyone who, like me, got a big Egoshaft up their *** from X Rebirth. It's simply a whole lot more fun, surprisingly polished for Early Access, and takes the edge off of waiting for Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous.

I know this game is early access, and that there will be bugs and things that are not quite complete, and I accept that, so I am not going to mention anything involving bugs or glitches, and will instead focus on the playability and feeling of the game.

To be blunt, this game is an unplayable abomination.

The only good thing I can say about it, is whoever worked on the character creation did a good job, as for the rest of the game, not much good can be said.

When I first started, I chose to be a merchant, and went through the tutorial. As a merchant, you start off with a ship that handles like a brick that is drifting in space. All you get are a couple of crappy laser guns, and you are off, fighting enemies, selling vaccines, and doing stuff.

After a few missions, I found myself noticing how slow and long winded and just plain boring the game was, and found myself bored and frustrated.

The game is so boring, that I literally found myself rolling cigarettes and making sandwiches while I wated for my ship to fly from being in-view of a station to at the door of the station.

I decided to try another character, and this time went with a survival/combat guy. I was given a slightly faster ship, but it looked practically identical to the slow cargo ship I had been given as a merchant. Furthermore, while the top speed of the ship was slightly higher, it still handled like a brick drifting in space.

With the combat ship, I was given a few guns instead of the two lame lazers you get with the cargo ship, but for some reason, I could kill enemies easier with the lame lazers than with the big combat guns. For some reason, they just did not do as much damage.

It seems that whatever you start off as, merchant or fighter, you will have slow unresponsive controls. Also, you will go through the exact same tutorial.

I have not played much at the time of typing this, and I will be checking back in from time to time to see if things improve, and if they do, I will come back and edit this post, but for now, I can't even stand to load the game up and see it.

It is slow, boring, and frustrating. However, it is more than just that, the problems are much more fundamental and deep rooted.

Here are the negative things that I have noticed:

-It is not an open single world, it is divided up into instances that need to be loaded. I understand that space is big, and you can't have loads of solar systems all in one world, but they have not only divided it up by solar system, they have also divided it up by whatever is in each system. Instead of load a solar system and fly from 1 planet to another, you load a solar system, then load a planet, and if you fly too far away from the planet, asteroid belt, ship, or whatever else you are near, you will come to an orange floating grid, that if you go beyond, will take you back to the main menu for what part you want to load.

-Not only does the ship handle like a drifting brick, but the controls have been designed by a madman, because nothing is where you would expect it to be, and it just feels very uncomfortable and awkward to move.

-The loading menu, has been disguised as a 2D top view of your ship flying around the solar system. So instead of just choosing what instance you want to load, you have to fly there very slowly.

-You can fly directly through the sun or planets, and it does not blow you up or do anything to you, this does not seem like a bug either, it looks like its just how its going to be. When you are in the weird flying around slowly choosing what instance to load menu, you can't crash in to anything, suns, planets, ships, whatever, its all without mass.

-The user interface and writing are so small that you simply can't read it. I have this loaded on a large 32'' screen, and no matter what resolution I put it at, all the writing is about size 6px.

-It is too organge. From the logo to the UI, there is orange all over the place.

-There are giant chunks of information that are just missing, with most of the things being unexplained.

-The whole system is totally over complicated for the sake of being over complicated. For example, if you buy a new gun for your ship. First you have to buy the gun, then it will get moved to your warehouse menu. Once this happens, you can open your warehouse and then your ship cargo and drag it over, and once you have done that, you can drag it from your cargo to the slot you want to equip it on.

This means you can end up buying things to trade, only to spend ages slowly flying bored out of your mind to sell them for peanuts, just to discover you left them in your warehouse anyway, and have to fly all the way back again.

-A whole load more that I wont bother boring you with.

How anyone can have the guts to ask for money for this is beyond my understanding. I rather give the cash to a beggar on the street, and at least get the feeling of having helped someone in return.

Buying this game is like paying to be arrested so you can be made to wait for bail.

Overall, I give this one a 2/10 at best. Lets see if it improves with time.

Fun game, needs more players but it is still in early alpha so it's ok. You can play as 1 of 3 corporations, pirate, or independent. You can trade, mine, freight run, passenger taxi, or do pve bounty missions for credits. Or just farm npcs for credits, xp, and loot. When you are part of a corporation you can fight to take over stations of other corporations. When you are pirate everything turns hostile including players and you can only dock at independent stations. Independent players can only be attacked by pirates. The starter combat ship is decent enough to be able to pvp at the start of the game.

Has a dynamic market system and tax rate. Crafting is soon to be implemented into the game. Only 12 ships available for purchase right now, more to come later. 4 starter ships. Skills come with levels and you can increase damage, shields, hull points, speed, turning, radar range, cargo space, etc. Revamping costs credits according to level. Abilities can be bought at certain stations and use energy. Fuel is used to make jumps through gates when you purchase a ship. Starter ships don't use fuel. When you purchase a ship you can learn about the CODE system which lets you allocate power to different subsystems like shields, weapons, or engines. There are modules you can install to your ship to have certain benefits like more weapon damage, faster engine speed, or better turning. Also modules allow you to increase your cargo space or convert your cargo space to accomodate passengers for taxi missions.

This game has a lot and is only in alpha. Highly recommend for purchase. You can see the potential of the game and know it is worth the money. The devs are very active in the community. It just might take a while before the ball starts rolling.