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Avorion
Developer Boxelware
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy. From the Steam store page
292 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
195 positive · 53 negative
95% range 73–83%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 195 | 53 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 7 | 0 | 20 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
8,092 of 9,057 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
79% recommend · 176 yes, 48 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 224 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (13,149 of 14,609 positive).
Players praise the shipbuilding as deep and creative, allowing for immense customization. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the game world shallow, with repetitive content and a weak economy. [1][4][5] Several players note the game has been nearly abandoned by developers, with persistent bugs. [6][7][8]
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- [7]
I really wanted to like this game. The freedom of design for the ships is a big draw, the tons of bullets from a bunch of turrets is great. It has everything going for it. Except the devs have no idea what game they want to make. Also there are really bad bugs that have existed for years at this point that they've just admitted that they're not going to even bother trying to fix. When you play this game, it's clear …
- [1]
The vanilla base game is okay. The shipbuilding is great, and being able to import assets from other games, voxelize them, and drop them right in is genuinely cool. The game sells itself as a sandbox space-combat/light-economy sort of deal—basically an “X4 lite.” But where X4 has a deep, living economy and a world that actually reacts to things (even if it limits your creativity), Avorion is the opposite. You get …
- [14]
Finally beat the game tonight. I'm going to leave my thoughts now: TLDR; 6/10 overall, 8/10 first half, 3/10 second half. I agree with the negative review DiBBz left. Pretty much all of it. I actually didn't like the game at first, because I had trouble getting into the sandbox groove of 'do what I want'. I also struggled with building a viable ship at first, but the game has options to get around that. Once I …
- [3]
Honestly, building ships in this game feels like crack. Most of my playtime has likely been sunk into building and that really shows. Of course there are multiple ways of playing the game: Bounty hunting, trading or mining your way through the galaxy are all fully valid ways of playing and allows you to play just how you like. Builders beware, you might get stuck like I now am; Building ships with thousands of …
- [2]
As someone who loves X4: Foundations, Elite Dangerous, Space Engineers, and even the empire-building chaos of Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, Avorion scratches a very specific itch in a way few games do. It blends space exploration, ship building, trading, combat, mining, fleet management, and faction warfare into one surprisingly deep sandbox. The ship-building system is flexible enough to let you create anything from a …
Summarised from 34 of the 266 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Avorion talk about shipbuilding is highly flexible and addictive; those who didn't talk about the world feels shallow and repetitive. Which matters more to you?
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60 of 292 · most liked firstIve owned the game for a long time, and kept coming back to check up on it. Its a great little game, often described as a very casual X4. And while on the surface it looks appealing, the more time you spend playing it you realize the game lacks in alot of area's that it honestly ruins immersion. So what does the game have going for it. Well more than you can expect. - A "Large" "Explorable" galaxy - Factions vying for "control" in the galaxy - Story missions including DLC also, Despite being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The vanilla base game is okay. The shipbuilding is great, and being able to import assets from other games, voxelize them, and drop them right in is genuinely cool. The game sells itself as a sandbox space-combat/light-economy sort of deal—basically an “X4 lite.” But where X4 has a deep, living economy and a world that actually reacts to things (even if it limits your creativity), Avorion is the opposite. You get tons of freedom to build whatever you want, but the world underneath feels pretty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. The freedom of design for the ships is a big draw, the tons of bullets from a bunch of turrets is great. It has everything going for it. Except the devs have no idea what game they want to make. Also there are really bad bugs that have existed for years at this point that they've just admitted that they're not going to even bother trying to fix. When you play this game, it's clear that they're going for the X4 style of spaceship empire automation…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avorion Review ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For non-linux users: Great game! If you like micro managing stuff but want a more casual game that does not need a spreadsheet, this game is for you. would recommend. For Linux users: I run Linux Bazzite for gaming & it works great with games both new & old and from a verity of stores like GOG, Steam, Itch.io, & even ported Android games. But for some unknown reason Avorion refuses to run without crashing. The worst part is is that it will run fine for a while (my 200+ hours show this) but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who loves X4: Foundations, Elite Dangerous, Space Engineers, and even the empire-building chaos of Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, Avorion scratches a very specific itch in a way few games do. It blends space exploration, ship building, trading, combat, mining, fleet management, and faction warfare into one surprisingly deep sandbox. The ship-building system is flexible enough to let you create anything from a tiny mining craft to a massive battleship or carrier, while the galaxy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a decent game but every 10 minutes I found something that feels very.. fake? And I wished I was playing x3/x4. Ship orders are fine, but half the time they're not actually doing anything in the world, they just disappear and there's a timer that tells you when they "finish". Factions exist but they're completly static. They don't build stations, they barely have any ships, they don't trade as far as I know. Economy in most places is dead. Even if you find a sector that has A LOT of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EVE Online, StarField, No Mans Sky, all of the space games promised me 5 things. They Failed to deliver one... Avorion Promised me one thing. They succeeded at delivering 5... The 5 Promises mentioned were A Fun Real Time Strategy Game where you write your own story. Fully customizable starships. very interactable and unique gameplay that can keep the player hooked. Several opportunities to allow players to fully immerse themselves in the game's inviroment. And lastly, beautiful graphics…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has some great ideas. Its a shame they aren't implemented well at all. For some reason if you want to play the game at all, even single player the game must create a server on your computer that you have to connect to. I don't know how they've managed to create a game with connection issues to a server running on my local machine but they've done it, so thats interesting. The game is just a buggy mess all around though. Like workshop items don't appear in the correct folder if at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like the game, went up to building xanion ships. The overall concept is great and it feels like a passion project. I really like the concept of building up from your ship to managing a fleet and the RTS aspect of it. Being able to switch to a in sector view and command your ships around is great. But the execution is really poor and in many ways it feels like a prototype rather than a full game. The game promises some automation using the captains and even makes your captain…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games for People who Love Dwarf Fortress | Nookrium Youtube - (Invidious link). > Happy 20th Birthday, Dwarf Fortress. These are 16 Games that scratch that DF itch. Nookrium is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d5B8kqB0GA ::: spoiler list 0:31 - Songs of Syx store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/ 1:24 - RimWorld store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/ 1:57 - Going Medieval store.steampowered.com/app/1029780/Going_Medieval/ 2:24 - KeeperRL…
neutral · AI labelView post →Overall, I have to leave a thumbs down for Avorion but it isn't an easy one mind you. The game is genuinely good fun and interesting throughout a good portion of the game. Pretty much everything before entering the barrier to the center was a well-paced, interesting experience with a steady buildup of challenge and adventure. If I were to judge the game purely by this segment of the game alone, I would absolutely give in a positive review. Once you pass the center barrier, however,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has earned a coveted place on my "scratches the Freelancer itch" shelf of my library. It is often difficult to describe what that means, or why I spend so much time looking for it. On the surface, it is not an overly deep or complicated game, it does not appear to have particularly high production value (no voice actors, minimal texturing, little lore/flavor/story, no flare art, and most of the content is procedurally generated. There is also not much for mission diversity or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avorion - An Overhyped Space Mess with Missed Potential I really wanted to like Avorion. The premise sounded amazing: an expansive, dynamic space sandbox where I could design my own ships, blast through enemies with tons of turrets, and maybe even build a vast space empire. The freedom of ship design is a huge hook, and the chaos of firing a thousand bullets at once is undeniably satisfying. But after putting in far too many hours, it's clear: Avorion is a game that has no idea what it wants…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What are your favorite applications that run in a docker container?. Mine are so far: - Nextcloud - poste.io - portainer - founryvtt - and some gameserver: - Minecraft - Avorion - Satisfactory - Factorio
neutral · AI labelView post →A Mix of Minecraft meets EVE, but offline. Build your own ships from blocks, place the turrets where you want, Make your ship a massive battleship with 30 cannons, make it high tech and fast with a lot of shields for scouting, build carriers that release hundreds of customized drones that can shoot any weapon you can build in the game, design your own fighters for your carriers just like you design you own ship. Work your way to the center of the universe obtaining more advanced tech and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally beat the game tonight. I'm going to leave my thoughts now: TLDR; 6/10 overall, 8/10 first half, 3/10 second half. I agree with the negative review DiBBz left. Pretty much all of it. I actually didn't like the game at first, because I had trouble getting into the sandbox groove of 'do what I want'. I also struggled with building a viable ship at first, but the game has options to get around that. Once I started using ONE specific workshop ship, the Icebreaker, I REALLY started to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It doesn't have modelled or simulated trade. It's mostly static and completely predictable. Why do much of the game is dedicated to trade makes no sense, when there isn't simulation for it. Setting up trading, manufacturing, mining; it's all an arduous, expensive task that results in a trickle of income while you get to go off with your fleet and play pew pew towards the centre of the galaxy where the narrative leads. While I can download a ship design and plop it into my game, there is no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the best games I've ever played. I wish I'd found it sooner! Also one of the best truly open-world game engines I've experienced. Factions are actively at war behind the scenes, while you play. You can explore, fight, harvest, trade, run a space corporation, build a fleet from scratch, and grow an empire, or simply be a pirate with some escort ships and attack whoever you want. Diplomacy matters. The game gives several options to advance and doesn't require you to grind for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a shame this game has nearly been abandoned developmentally. Hands down one of the most all encompassing space games ever made. Non-linear yet goal orientated. Immersive gameplay in a giant universe.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played this game on and off since beta and it's been a staple in my library if I need something relaxing and slow paced to play. This game does a lot of things right, but the story is garbage.. XD Luckily the game makes up for it by simply being really really fun to play, especially with friends. 8/10 game, here's to another thousand hours! PS: Please.. for the love of god.. Make operation Exodus less buggy.. >.< I always cheat the last beacon in, it's not worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I was small I wanted to have a gaming channel and I picked a name that looked like arrow keys and controller buttons (Avox) Later I found and really liked the game Avorion so I smushed the two together
neutral · AI labelView post →hello friends! <3 today, we resume Avorion! i've been playing it a bit in my free time, and i think i've really stepped my ship designing game up! we'll see though~ show starts in a few, see ya then <3 #vtuber #envtuber #plural #transgender #chubby #doll www.twitch.tv/a_fallen_doll
positive · AI labelView post →Steam told me to review a game for a badge and I like this game and you should play it because it is fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AAA gaming is definitely dead but i dont think its a bad thing. Ive just about only played Indie games and even AA(?) games to great satisfaction the past couple of years. Im not a light gamer either have thousands of hours in games like Avorion, Stormworks, Battlebit, Juno: new origins (kerbal space program like). That is just to name a few but right now im binging Space Station 14 real hard which im not even playing from Steam. If anything the death of AAA has created a great opportunity for…
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to like this game but I lack the smarts and creativity to make it happen.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Theres plenty about this game that I like and things I really respect like the bigger your ship the louder the hum it produces when close by it like the CIS ships in the Clone Wars. However there's a of things that prevent me from loving the game and in turn have me feel really fatigued to the point where its a slog to even try and get to the center of the galaxy which is the end goal. The phrase that best describes this game is its as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle, so if the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want to be able to make a custom ship in space this is a good game to try out. Personally its just not for me. Once you get past the idea of making ships everything else is just mediocre in the game. Awesome idea years ago. Now days I feel their is better games on the idea of custom ship building. 3/10 - Pick it up on sale and enjoy with some friends or by yourself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, building ships in this game feels like crack. Most of my playtime has likely been sunk into building and that really shows. Of course there are multiple ways of playing the game: Bounty hunting, trading or mining your way through the galaxy are all fully valid ways of playing and allows you to play just how you like. Builders beware, you might get stuck like I now am; Building ships with thousands of individual blocks over the course of multiple days, fixating over the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avorion... like, don't get me wrong, I've got 1,200+ hours in it, and on paper it still features literally everything that is like digital crack cocaine to me... but the updates and changes just keep going in directions that don't interest me, at all, and even though they're not explicitly **bad** per se, I find myself overwhelmed with disappointment about what the updates *could've* been, and I just become less interested, and end up playing less and less, to the point that I never even…
neutral · AI labelView post →This is an amazing game made by a single awesome developer just making something he wants to play. I highly recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avorion, by far way better and deeper than no man sky would ever be able to get. But still, this still feels like a early acces game and it is not, it is fully released and updates are slow and far in between. At first as said by far it is the best space simulator but after a while you gonna reach the bussy places. Everything is bound to RAM so if you in a bussy part of the universe when they use seperate drones to mine. Some pirate fleet popping in and you be rubber banding like crazy because…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice #openrgb with the effects plugin has an ambient effect that captures the screen and uses the average color information to control LEDs. You also need the visual map plugin so that you can define which LED should react to what square on the screen. This replaces the philips hue app on linux. And as an added bonus works with many other LED lights. It also works with games. Tested it with the beautiful stars and nebulas in #avorion Cool. #linux #openrgb #philipshue
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun game i have restarted a time or two just for fun. runs great on Fedora so windows can &*^% *&^
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i tried liking this game, i really really tried because im a huge sci-fi nerd and i love space. unfortunately most of my time in this game was spent jumping from empty system to empty system, waiting sometimes a full minute between jumps for my batteries to refill. i know space is empty but come on, at least let us jump through these empty filler systems instantly. other than that, the ship building was alright but didnt feel like it mattered when the combat is mostly just a point and click,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Part of me wants to push Lego Handcam 2 back by a week - I'm more in the mood for dumb fun today... Might nab Teardown or something from the steam sale? Is there anything else I should look at? I know Avorion is another on the list that has been interesting 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →Actually really good. Would be amazing to set up a server to play with friends. The ship building can be as in depth or as simple as you like. Pretty good gameplay, little bit grindy BUT you can continue to get captains for ships you build, so you can run ten ships each on five hour missions while you sleep and stuff. Very fun scifi game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make ship, pack it with armor but still balanced, use some small turret, go pirate hunting. get a BIG WEAPON froma a rare drop, use it, obliterated a ship in one shot. An absoulute Build and Destroy masterpiece.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's one of my few all-time favourite games in the genre. I've been playing it off and on since its release back in 2020.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The building needs a lot of work, i was fighting the whole system the 1.2 hours i was trying to play. The tutorial also needs a lot of work the fact that the game locks you from deleting parts when it asks you to do so, made me have to search the forums. Then after they blow up the ship you start with, the block rotation in the building mode wasn't working had to search that up in the forums also. They said hold R and then click the points that pop up, yet nothing pops up. The fact that i had…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is genuinely excellent. On paper this looked incredible. Unfortunately the execution is utterly ♥♥♥♥. The UI is unintuitive. The controls in build mode feel clunky and cumbersome. Free camera has weird, arbitrary limitations that make basic navigation a chore. Everything that should feel fluid feels like wrestling with the interface just to accomplish the most basic tasks. After 3 hours, I gave up. Not because the game was hard, but because fighting the controls stopped being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a monument of a game. Starting from a small blocky mess to commanding a galaxy-spanning empire, soaking in the atmosphere while cruising about in an endless supply of dazzling ships (thank you workshop creators), to inserting entirely new factions... and all in a tiny game, compared to other Space Opera monstrosities on the market. If conquering the Galaxy with {insert favorite space faction} is one of your power fantasies, this game delivers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recently got into Avorion because another Group was playing it. This is my Third ship ive made in this game (tutorial ship, First ship in server to learn mechanics then this), but Ive had plenty of practice in other titles. But there are still errors I dont have energy to fix KDI Trapezoid Frigate
neutral · AI labelView post →such a slept on gem. some minor performance issues specifically with ships jumping into systems but it's just a minor rough spot in an otherwise fantastic game. there's some pretty in-depth mechanics like the economy to learn but about anyone can jump into this and enjoy it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took a bit to get into but once I did I was consumed with it. Love the building and spent probably 1/3 of my playtime in the ship editor.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space Engineers. I've never fought a running game as much as this one. Autosaving causes the game to hang for 10 seconds and it saves every 5 minutes. For a game made in 2013 I had to lower all the settings to medium and off to get a decent framerate. The first playthrough I barely got anywhere in nearly 20 hours of play. The learning curve is pretty high. I felt like Dr. Malcolm tapping on the screen yelling 'there is 'space in this game right?' All that being said I still enjoy it. The…
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like if X4 and Empyrion got married and adopted Kinetic Void out of the vapor-ware orphanage and gave it a stable, loving home where it could grow up to be a real game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the most unique experiences without mods, and still being updated.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deeply unbaked. Just play X4. One of those games where I spent more time yelling at my monitor and searching discord than actually playing the game. Cool idea, hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A shooter might be hard, but I think you could make ORION: Prelude fit. It's a little old now, but still fun. You get to shoot dinosaurs and run around big maps. Other games that I'd recommend: Avorion (build your own spaceships and fight and befriend the galaxy) It's not technically a shooter, but depending on whether you pick out lasers, electric tasers, machine guns, or rail guns, there is definitely some aspects of moving to avoid enemy fire while plunking them down. [but don't be like…
neutral · AI labelView post →Avorion is an absolute gem of a game if you've got enough time to sink some feeling into it. As a player you can mine rocks, fight space pirates (be a space pirate) or trade in a reasonably complex market but the game shines best when you take a step back and become the architect of your own empire. Build ships, hire Captains and found your own stations to become more than a passive slave to the market. Build a flagship for yourself and let the plebs do all the leg work. Above all, find…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game started out fun. But it just feels repetitive and boring. And that starts to really show how weak the other systems of the game are. The research gambling is just mindless boring clicking. There's no built in way to easily sort out junk equipment. So I just let my inventory clog full of useless garbage. And then you look at mods for this stuff and there's dozens of choices and none of them actually make any more sense. Trying to control large groups of ships in combat is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love any game where I can be a trucker of some kind, but isn't a trucking simulator. Love me some logistics and supply chain management.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very enjoyable, easily get immersed and hours will fly. The ability to make ships/download ships (I am a bit star wars nerd) being able to have a fleet of Venators/acclamators mining/exploring/freight services throughout the galaxy is amazing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a GREAT video game. It's probably not for everyone, but if you are interested in a very fun and solid space exploration experince with amazing customization. Give this a try.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can run a dedicated server in games like Starbound and Factorio but trying to run a dedicated server in Avorion? Tell them they are dreaming. After two weeks of trying and disappointment, thinking that I would be able to play this game with a friend on a dedicated server, it is now time to give up. Much sadness. Would I recommend this game, no. Given the support, documentation and how the software was written, it should just work but it does not. A five year old game, I would expect a dedicated…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crazy customization, deep mechanics that can keep you busy, fleets and station management. Every time I get in there is something new to chase after. It even has multiplayer
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this has been the most fun I have ever had in a game and I am dragging all my friends into this rabbit hole I am in. also runs really well for what I got I can't wait to play more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very fun space sandbox. ship building is neat and playing with friends is a blast
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the greatest, most intuitive ship builders I've ever seen in a game
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