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EVE Online
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “deep, varied, immersive space gameplay” (35 of 104 reviews) and “lasting appeal across repeated returns” (10); the most common complaint is “expensive subscription and paywalled ships” (15). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
35 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Great Game.... Untill your $500 (or something along that price range) ship gets blown up i've seen it happen though personally i rather grind than waste money on a game like this. Still a fun game. Don't and I repeat…”
“Just an amazing game that you can come back to constantly. The world is evolving constantly and carving out your own path is always possible. I have been playing this entire time as an alpha and having a blast just…”
“I recently just re-downloaded this game. I can't get over after all these years it is still a great game to play. So if you are looking for a space game that is PvP or PvE, then this is the game for you. That is just…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Just an amazing game that you can come back to constantly. The world is evolving constantly and carving out your own path is always possible. I have been playing this entire time as an alpha and having a blast just…”
“I've been playing this game on and off since about 2012 and I'm still a High Sec Carebear.”
“Its fun, relaxing, and challenging and i keep coming back to it.”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I have been playing this game for about 13 years. Challenging but also very rewarding”
“Its fun, relaxing, and challenging and i keep coming back to it.”
“The greatest space game ever made... Described by it's creators as "here's a Rubix Cube... no go "F" yourself."”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Just an amazing game that you can come back to constantly. The world is evolving constantly and carving out your own path is always possible. I have been playing this entire time as an alpha and having a blast just…”
“"game is too complicated" "too much grinding"..... that's what makes it good lol”
4 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Great immersive Gameplay. You can choose to play solo or with others.”
“Hard to learn, but fun if you try your best to learn what you enjoy! Cooperation and the Corporation systems work well and should probably be emphasized more to newer players. Hoping to get my corp up and running so i…”
“EVE's learning cliff is as steep as possible. If you are looking for a brutal unforgiving and incredibly complex game then this is it. The economy is entirely player driven. There are absolutely NPC given freebies to…”
15 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“All the good ships and everything are behind a monthly subscription paywall.”
“Terrible system for new players . Waiting months for skills to train so you can play is absolutely crazy Greewers are also a massive prob in this game makes exsploration a pain . When you die , you lose big . And most…”
“I've spent 30 hours "playing" this game, which isn't even a game at this point. I spent 30 hours just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ staring at my screen, trying to understand what the hell I'm even supposed to do?! How do I even play? How…”
14 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Unistalled. overly complex and poor introduction to the game overall. do better devs. gave the game a while longer aftering seeking support with issues in game i encountered early on (locking me out from getting jobs…”
“Terrible system for new players . Waiting months for skills to train so you can play is absolutely crazy Greewers are also a massive prob in this game makes exsploration a pain . When you die , you lose big . And most…”
“This game is extremely complicated to learn, time consuming as well. I'm sure once a player gets past all the tutorials and the learning curve its a fun game, but for me I just don't have the patience to learn the…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Most of this game is genuinely spent waiting. Waiting for a skill, waiting to jump, waiting to align, waiting to process, waiting to build, waiting to arrive, waiting to cycle, waiting for cap to recharge, waiting for…”
“This game is extremely complicated to learn, time consuming as well. I'm sure once a player gets past all the tutorials and the learning curve its a fun game, but for me I just don't have the patience to learn the…”
“I've spent 30 hours "playing" this game, which isn't even a game at this point. I spent 30 hours just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ staring at my screen, trying to understand what the hell I'm even supposed to do?! How do I even play? How…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I've spent 30 hours "playing" this game, which isn't even a game at this point. I spent 30 hours just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ staring at my screen, trying to understand what the hell I'm even supposed to do?! How do I even play? How…”
“Great Game.... Untill your $500 (or something along that price range) ship gets blown up i've seen it happen though personally i rather grind than waste money on a game like this. Still a fun game. Don't and I repeat…”
“I played 60 hours of this game 6 years ago and i haven't a fckin clue what i did, Play avorion its this but it wont waste your time or money and has a better community of who ever you want it to be instead of this one…”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Get on game complete tutorial be excited to explore head to a stargate get diddled on the way there finally get to the Gate Go in come out get DIDDLED once more buy a guy with 10k hours Top Tier game. would recommend.”
“Multiboxing plague ruins the game.”
“A note on the events they run, this is the current capsuleer day event (which people were looking forward to) I tried the cruiser sites, set up a cerb, I’ve done maybe 5 of them, only got the loot from 3. Seems people…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 73.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“This game is a second life... once you find the 'corp' of people you were meant to hang with. You will never run out of new things to try with the elaborate skill tree. With friends, there are endless combinations of fun things that can happen. There is no other game that ten…”
— a player, Steam review · 3,023 hrs played“I love eve online While disconnecting from reality, I think the game is very easy and gives me very deep thought space. Thanks for this game. 💙”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“Free means you wont even make it to locations to start missions without getting murdered by some asshat wallet warrior so don't waste your time unless you are prepared to dump the gdp of a small country into staying alive”
— a player, Steam review · 81 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Crimson Harvest: Open the Bloodgates
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Space · Free to Play · Massively Multiplayer · Open World · Multiplayer · RPG · Economy · Sci-fi · Sandbox · PvP · Strategy · Action (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Trading Cards · Adjustable Text Size |
| Languages | English * , German * , Russian * , French * , Korean * , Japanese * , Spanish - Spain * , Simplified Chinese * * |
| Official site | http://www.eveonline.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Dual Core @ 2.0 GHz, AMD Dual Core @ 2.0 GHz) Memory: 4 GB or higher Video: AMD Radeon 5450 or NVIDIA GeForce 420 or better with at least 1024 MB VRAM