I have just finished the game and I can't really recommend it at that price, to be honest. The game is fun at first, a nice and zoomy space combat game, but as the story continues it becomes more and more padding, obligatory puzzles, reusing side objectives for the main story. The boss fights are gimmicky waiting games and the worst of all is the travelling. There is no fast travel until the second to last mission, and even then you have to go from very few specific positions to others and grind for super specific thinks to jump from fast travel point to fast travel. point. This wouldn't be THAT big of an issue, but the game has you running from A to B to C to D back to B and then to E before going back to A. You spend a solid half of the midgame and late game just travelling around from place to place to jump gate, waiting to jump and keep travelling.

The story and the characters are... not really enjoyable either. It's pretty corny, nothing interesting and most of the characters are utterly unlikable or bland. If it is on a sale and you REALLY like 6DOF games, it might be fun, but for that asking price it is a LOF of money for a LOT of padding and people chewing your ear off with annoying dialogue and unnecessary drama about nothing.

A lot of the issues COULD be fixed, maybe Everspace 3 could learn a few things from this one, but yeah, for 50 Bucks, save your money and look for something better or wait for a sale if you REALLY want to play it.

Recommending on a sale.

Negative:
This is no Freelancer, there is no wanderlust or exploration, no space odyssey, you are put on a hamster wheel by the plot, point to the shiny "!" sign with your camera, let the fast travel loading screen dispatcher carry you from arena to arena, and look at pretty comic book sketches for plot.
This is an arena battler linked together with a glorified loading screen in the form of a map you navigate for fast travel.
Abhorrent mouse aim, game is designed with a mindset that autoaim will be on and that controller will be used.
Performance of the game is weird, a freshly started game runs like butter, over time it can start stuttering, probably memory leaks. Blowing a lot of stuff up and generating a few volumetric clouds for some reason makes this game crawl (blowing up those containers on stations as example), unoptimised. 90% of time it runs nicely.


Positive:
Great work by artists, the arenas are beautifully crafted, the vessels and gear are pleasant to the eye.
Voice acting ranges from great to mediocre, but on average its good.
Plenty of gamey game mechanics if you are into all kinds of loot/unlocks/perks/passives/actives and whatnot.
Using all these things is actually fun, so theres that.

Spaceship Diablo