How does this compare to Galaxy on Fire 2?

[Thunderdrake3]

(For those who are unaware, the employees of Rockfish Games previously created a space opera game know as Galaxy on Fire and its sequel.)

Galaxy on Fire 2 was my favorite game on mobile, and it stands up next to some full console/PC games. For those who have played GoF2 and this, how does it compare? I understand the game is still being made, but what's its current state compared to GoF2?

[Hazzy]

🇶 Is this considered a new Galaxy on Fire game?
🅰 We're the original dev team of GOF 1&2. EVERSPACE 2 will be a much bigger space game than we have ever done. We're pretty confident you won't be disappointed.

They are a lot more similar in that ES2 is now an open world rpg as opposed to ES1 which is a rogue lite. Currently there’s two systems out of a planned eight which is a lot less than what GoF 2 had, however the systems themselves are a lot more varied and have a lot more focus on exploration. Unlike in GoF2 where each/majority of the locations in a system simply has a station and wouldn’t be that vastly different from one another.

All ships in ES2 are fighter ships and there are 3 classes (light, medium and heavy) and each class has 3 subclasses. So in total there’s 9 ships which sounds a lot less than what GoF2 had to offer, however in this case each ship can be customised by a lot. So two of the same ship might look completely different from one another.

I recommend checking out this video to get the general gist of the game: https://youtu.be/a4SkqMbaqys