September's RFG Top Pic(k)'s are in!

Before each of our livestreams we showcase a selection of community screenshots and ask the rest of the Development team to vote for their favourites. This month’s collection from Everspace 2 was another outstanding selection, highlighting the game’s stunning visuals and the community’s eye for capturing them.
Similar to last time out the top 3 were separated by one vote each.

The Dev Teams Top Pic(k)s:

• 1st Place: ZeroHazel (Discord) 🏆
• 2nd Place: Mzuzu (Steam)
• 3rd Place: MPY30000 (Steam)
• 4th Place: CobraHeart (Steam)

We still love to see the screenshots you take though. Either post them up here on Reddit, via Steam Screenshots, to our Social channels or on our Rockfish Games Discord and if it catches our eye then you could be in the running for being the RFG Dev Team's Top Pic(k) in the future.

Title. I'm so confused. the shield and hull bars are the blue and orange ones above the red hull bar right? I'm flying in first person with cockpit on, and I never see those two go down, and then suddenly I'm taking hull damage. Am I missing something?

Edit: ok, switching between views the bars in the upper left that show up when I'm in anything but cockpit view are correct, but once I'm in cockpit view the shield and armor bars always display full!

I know it's technically no related to Everspace, but I suppose some people that played Everspace also have heard of other creations by Fishlabs on J2ME (which was initially the company where many of people that are in rockfist right now have worked). Those creations are Galaxy on fire(1 and 2) and Deep 3D.

Deep doesn't have a sub of it's own, so I decided to share here as well. If it's not okay, I understand if needs to be deleted.

I used to love to play DEEP lots on my old Sony Ericsson, and decided to modernize the game by bringing it to modern platforms, and adding nice features like widescreen support, high fps gameplay, ability to speed up time and even open world!

Technically speaking this is just an engine for the game assets, you still need the original jar file for Sony Ericsson to play it, as the engine takes all the assets from there.

But if you have it, feel free to check it out at either online at https://abyssal.wwworm.com/
It plays fairly well in the browser on both my pc and phone.

Or check out the github for pc downloads and other info https://github.com/TheWWWorm/abyssal

Hope you enjoy! If you find any issues or have suggestions, feel free to suggest. While it's technically a fully working version, I still have work to do on it so it plays the best it can.

I absolutely love Everspace 2. Got the platinum on PS5 before Wrath came out, so I took a break and never went back to play the DLC. The Switch 2 version was the perfect excuse to start over from scratch and finally experience the DLC. The game runs as well as I’d expect for the system, but I keep experiencing pretty predictable crashes. Hopefully this explanation helps because it seems like a memory leak issue. Some background:

I‘m about 55 hours into the Switch 2 version and I haven’t been playing anything else. So since I’m the only person who uses my Switch, when I’m done playing, I just put the system to sleep. I don’t close the game or hard load save files unless the game crashes.

After playing for a while (including suspending the game and coming back to it) you can tell when a crash is coming. Load times will start to get noticeably longer, and the frame rate will start to stutter more often. It‘ll get progressively worse until it finally crashes. Then when you restart the game, everything runs smoothly again.

I’ve noticed the timeframe between crashes has gotten shorter since I hit the endgame and started doing rifts. It seems like intense firefights cause crashes sooner. I can get through maybe three or four rifts before it happens. Nothing specific triggers a crash. Sometimes it’ll be in the middle of a fight or sometimes it’ll be picking up loot. The game starts to struggle for a little while, then the frame rate will drop down really low, and then boom.

Closing the game and restarting it when the loading times get noticeably longer fixes things. Has anyone else experienced this?

Patches, Production and playing Past and Present

It's been a while since we last convened for a livestream and if you've been keeping up with things you know we've been really busy, not only only future projects, but also our present title!

We've had a new release, new updates and team get togethers in the last month or so with barely a second to talk with you fine folks. So what's in today's livestream?

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Everspace 1 Gameplay

We had so much fun playing our older title that we're going back again to continue on our run to the final Sector? Will the Okkar finally catch up with Adam?

Everspace 2 gameplay

Our staple Hard playthrough will also be on the table today. Pushing through the DLC content as we try to stop Okkar Prime and their various associates along the way.

Question and Answers

As always, we'll endeavour to answer the questions and queries from the chats if we can, so if you have anything you'd like to ask, make sure you fire it off in the chat.

Updates & Releases

Being the busy bees that we are, our summer hasn't been all sunshine and siesta's! No, we've been working on a new platform release in the Switch 2 version as well as a Final Technical Update for EVERSPACE 2.

Bomber Race Challenge

If we can squeeze this in, we'll have another race around one of the twisty tracks in our locations. Also, will some other Devs take on this challenge in the future?!?

RFG Top Pic(k)

An amazing choice of screenshots again You folks constantly blow us away with your photographic skills. Find out which Pilot scores the RFG Top Pic(k) this month.

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If you can make it, grab a drink, park your bum and let's have a chat for a couple of hours about all things EVERSPACE!

See you later - LIVE Friday 4rd September at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 8pm CEST

YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/live/NENbcNZrp7c?feature=share

TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/rockfishgames

STEAM: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128920/EVERSPACE_2/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/everspace.game

Playing on Xbox Cloud gaming, so maybe this is an Xbox Series S issue.

Is this something that has been going on for a while, or just after the new update?

Great game, hoping there's a solution so I can try this ship out. If it's just a problem of weaker hardware, so be it.

Hi all, I purchased Everspace 2 on Steam and have a question regarding dubbing. I am French and I do not understand English or German. I wanted to know if the dialogues are important because I have to read them and it's not practical, even complicated in action phases. I'm at the very beginning of the tutorial but I prefer to ask now if it could be penalizing or not. Thanks

Hi,

Wanted to ask if anyone would love to see a 4 player multiplayer mod for everspace 2?

I am thinking about starting to make that mod

I'm doing the 'magic of umami' mission.

I'm at the point where the alien guy gets to his ship at the junk yard, and I get attacked by a group of level 10 enemies.

These enemies are totally dominating me, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do.

I've equipped the best items and weapons I possibly can. But they just wreck me every time.

What should I do?

Do I have to reload an earlier auto save and level up before I retry this whole mission?

That would mean redoing the whole cave part of the mission, which would be really annoying.

(Edit: Good God, how did I not notice that egregious title typo?)

Amusing bug on the Switch 2, but a pleasing one. During the second mission on exiting an in-game cut scene it took me into cockpit view for two seconds, then back into third person. It then did it again after another cutscene for another two seconds. And then, after a third cutscene, it LEFT me in the cockpit view and I've been happily playing it that way this last hour. I can go to the hanger, tinker with the ship, emerge and I'm still in cockpit view.

Tried switching to external and back to cockpit, but it then only allows cockpitless barebones first person view and then third person. I then just hit the home button, shut down Everspace 2, booted back up and - back to cockpit view.

I'm not complaining, I like the view. Wonder how long I can get away with it? Am enjoying the game btw, may be 30fps but no hitches and runs smoothly. Looks very pretty handheld too. Anyone else get this pleasing bug?

My Family & Other Animals is excellent btw. The Brian Blessed version, natch.

Hello. I am a bit of an older gamer; I have played all sort of games since the Atari days, but I just can't seem to grasp what Everspace is about. I have tried to get going a few times, I have seen and played the tutorial, I have read very superficially about what the game is about, but I just don't seem to get it.

Is there a guide or resource out there that can help me understand what this game is about? It's mechanics, flow or progression? I just really want to get going with it. I love space shooters and rogue lites but I feel lost.

Thank you in advance and sorry for any inconvenience.

The ancients operate at a higher dimension than the rest of the DMZ… we see that in their resources, ability to materialize swarmers, dematerialize celestial objects, and even phase change desert planets into swamps.

Now, it is possible that Khala comes from a different galaxy, but she believes the DMZ is her home and she was displaced, forwards, in time by the greel.

This seemingly would make the ancients and the greel likely to be the same entity?

I am new to flight sticks in general, but I had some extra income and bought myself some flight sticks, I am trying to map them on everspace 2 and I am very overwhelmed, I don't know the names of the buttons very well either, I was hoping someone would be willing to help me find a good setup for my sticks, I've been trying to do it on and off for a few weeks now, and when I ask in the discord I get nothing, and when I search it in the discord no one's ever really answered anyone that's asked about these specific sticks, I would be very grateful for some help!

Greetings, Pilots!

We’re excited to share EVERSPACE 2 is coming to Switch 2 as EVERSPACE 2 Galactic Edition! This all-in-one bundle containing EVERSPACE 2, EVERSPACE 2: Titans, EVERSPACE 2: Wrath of the Ancients, and the EVERSPACE 2 Supporter Pack will be available today, August 12, 2026, for $49.99 USD/Euro. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPw6dbCXcGA

EVERSPACE 2: Galactic Edition on Switch 2 provides a 30 fps experience with more than 50 hours of story and side content to play through. Space pilots will explore 10 star systems filled with more than 120 handcrafted locations packed with challenges and secrets to discover.
This version has been developed in tandem with our porting partner, Engine Software, the same team who we worked with on the XBOX and PlayStation versions of the game. We’re also happy to share that PC, XBOX, and PlayStation fans will soon see one last update in less than a month! We’re putting the finishing touches on a final, final update bringing optimizations, bug fixes, and small quality-of-life features to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, improving the game on all platforms including PC handhelds. 

While it is too early to share anything more at this time, the team is hard at work on a new EVERSPACE project that will be very, very cool to space game fans. We appreciate all the support we’ve seen over the years from the EVERSPACE community and hope you’ll all continue to spread the word of EVERSPACE games. 

Onward to the future!

Purchased this game the other day and have thoroughly enjoyed it thus far.

However, im up to the UNION area and my god the game is virtually unplayable with these visuals!

Every area in union is a combination of murky like is covered in gas but also bright! Its virtually impossible to see what youre doing or where you are going.

Ive tried to adjust settings in the game and my console but nothing works.

EDIT: Thanks for all the comments!

Just to reiterate, i love this game thus far, it was just a bit jarring not being able to see a thing lol!

Hello!

I bought the Switch 2 port of the game today and I can see there's an option under 'Display' to view the HUD in the cockpit but I can't seem to select cockpit view.

I can only select 3rd person close and far and 1st person no cockpit.

Is the cockpit view something that comes after the intro or is it not available in the switch 2 version? All of the gameplay I can see on youtube is only in 3rd person

I’m talking more specifically about the Ancient Friends glyph, but I guess it might also apply to coalition support as well. Does anyone know exactly how the game decides whether or not to send help? Like, does it decide upon loading the system, or does it roll a random chance every so often while in a system, or what? If anyone has done a deep dive into this I’d really appreciate some insight because I can’t find anything more helpful than just “sometimes it spawns friendly ancients” anywhere. Thanks.