Gaia Beyond

Item: Gaia Beyond
Rating: 64
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-06-12

Summary

Polished, visually appealing, and fun experience.
Intriguing story and memorable characters.
Vast universe provides freedom to explore.
Core gameplay loop offers freedom of choice.
Buggy, unfinished, and lacks content.
Bugged quests and poor localization issues.

Categories

Action RPG Open-World Exploration Real-time Combat Resource Management Economic Simulation Vehicle Customization Single-player Story Faction Management

Reviews (sample size): 108
Helpful reviews: 96%
Unhelpful reviews: 2%
Protest reviews: 2%

64%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
36%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 254
Negative points: 250
Gameplay points: 99
Perf. points: 7
Rec. points: 86
Misc points: 29

Point	Description	Importance
Polished, fun, and visually appealing Description The game offers a polished and engaging experience with appealing visuals, immersive music, and a user-friendly interface. Players can enjoy a wide array of ships and weapons, enhancing the fun and replayability. Importance 94%	The game offers a polished and engaging experience with appealing visuals, immersive music, and a user-friendly interface. Players can enjoy a wide array of ships and weapons, enhancing the fun and replayability.	94%
Intriguing story and characters Description The game features an intriguing and well-written storyline with engaging characters and branching narratives. Players can choose to follow the main quest or explore the world freely, adding depth and immersion to the gameplay experience. Importance 29%	The game features an intriguing and well-written storyline with engaging characters and branching narratives. Players can choose to follow the main quest or explore the world freely, adding depth and immersion to the gameplay experience.	29%
Vast universe to explore Description The game features a vast universe to explore, with a large map and many secrets to uncover. This encourages exploration and discovery, providing a sense of adventure and preventing boredom. Importance 19%	The game features a vast universe to explore, with a large map and many secrets to uncover. This encourages exploration and discovery, providing a sense of adventure and preventing boredom.	19%
Freedom in gameplay choices Description The game provides a variety of activities such as mining, trading, and bounty hunting, allowing players to choose their own path. This freedom, combined with the game's core mechanics, creates an enjoyable and engaging experience. Importance 16%	The game provides a variety of activities such as mining, trading, and bounty hunting, allowing players to choose their own path. This freedom, combined with the game's core mechanics, creates an enjoyable and engaging experience.	16%
Great and immersive soundtrack Description The game features a great soundtrack that enhances the overall experience and creates an immersive atmosphere. The music is well-suited to the space setting, with soaring classical strings and grungy electric and synth instruments. Importance 14%	The game features a great soundtrack that enhances the overall experience and creates an immersive atmosphere. The music is well-suited to the space setting, with soaring classical strings and grungy electric and synth instruments.	14%
Homage to classic space RPGs Description The game is reminiscent of classic space RPGs like Space Rangers and Freelancer, capturing the feel of old top-down space sims while feeling new and relevant. This evokes nostalgia for fans of the genre while offering a fresh experience. Importance 11%	The game is reminiscent of classic space RPGs like Space Rangers and Freelancer, capturing the feel of old top-down space sims while feeling new and relevant. This evokes nostalgia for fans of the genre while offering a fresh experience.	11%
Rewarding RPG progression system Description The game features an RPG progression system that rewards most actions with experience, influencing dialogue options and actions. The sandbox nature of the game allows players to progress at their own pace, with a primary focus on dialogue and quest-heavy adventure. Importance 10%	The game features an RPG progression system that rewards most actions with experience, influencing dialogue options and actions. The sandbox nature of the game allows players to progress at their own pace, with a primary focus on dialogue and quest-heavy adventure.	10%
Responsive and fun combat Description The game features responsive combat and flight controls with keyboard and mouse, making combat tense and fun. The top-down combat can at times feel almost like a ballet, adding a unique element to the gameplay. Importance 10%	The game features responsive combat and flight controls with keyboard and mouse, making combat tense and fun. The top-down combat can at times feel almost like a ballet, adding a unique element to the gameplay.	10%
Ship building and customization Description Players can obtain blueprints for larger vessels via scanning, allowing them to build them. The feeling of obtaining a good blueprint, gathering the necessary materials, and constructing a ship provides a significant sense of progression and satisfaction. There are more than 60 ships available. Importance 7%	Players can obtain blueprints for larger vessels via scanning, allowing them to build them. The feeling of obtaining a good blueprint, gathering the necessary materials, and constructing a ship provides a significant sense of progression and satisfaction. There are more than 60 ships available.	7%
Open-world space ARPG Description The game offers the same fun gameplay of SPAZ but with no restrictions - you can fly anywhere on the map, try any questline, earn money however you want, fight pirates, collect space junk, join a trading guild, explore space and discover ancient derelicts you can plunder or follow the main questline and just enjoy the story - it's all up to you. Importance 7%	The game offers the same fun gameplay of SPAZ but with no restrictions - you can fly anywhere on the map, try any questline, earn money however you want, fight pirates, collect space junk, join a trading guild, explore space and discover ancient derelicts you can plunder or follow the main questline and just enjoy the story - it's all up to you.	7%
Rewarding flight model Description The flight model balances realism and accessible fun, featuring 4D thruster controls, a max speed, and no deceleration. Mastering the flight model is rewarding and keeps smaller ships viable. Importance 6%	The flight model balances realism and accessible fun, featuring 4D thruster controls, a max speed, and no deceleration. Mastering the flight model is rewarding and keeps smaller ships viable.	6%
Countless side quests Description The game includes a main quest along with countless side quests and delivery missions, as well as factions and events. This provides a lot of content and variety for players to enjoy. Importance 6%	The game includes a main quest along with countless side quests and delivery missions, as well as factions and events. This provides a lot of content and variety for players to enjoy.	6%
Russian text localization Description The game includes Russian text localization, created by an enthusiast, Yuki. The translation is integrated into the game, allowing players to select Russian in the settings. Importance 5%	The game includes Russian text localization, created by an enthusiast, Yuki. The translation is integrated into the game, allowing players to select Russian in the settings.	5%
Trading and resource gathering Description There are several planets, moons, and space stations to visit for buying and selling items. Players can shoot asteroids into pieces and sell the resources for profit. Importance 4%	There are several planets, moons, and space stations to visit for buying and selling items. Players can shoot asteroids into pieces and sell the resources for profit.	4%
Good mod support Description The game has good mod support and offers freedom to do everything you like. This allows players to customize their experience and add new content to the game. Importance 4%	The game has good mod support and offers freedom to do everything you like. This allows players to customize their experience and add new content to the game.	4%
Detailed and visually appealing backgrounds Description Backgrounds in space stations and planet facilities are good and of consistent quality. The space background texture is detailed and visually appealing. Importance 4%	Backgrounds in space stations and planet facilities are good and of consistent quality. The space background texture is detailed and visually appealing.	4%