It’s… rough right now. At its core, it is a great game. I appreciate the effort to make KSP more accessible to newcomers with all the tutorials and more user-friendly U.I.. It should help offset a lot of intimidation that might have existed in the first game. However, that accessibility is squandered by the fact you need very high end equipment to run the game consistently. On top of that, the game still being in early access means that at this current moment, it’s hard to recommend over its predecessor, which not only is less expensive, but also runs better and has a wide variety of mods to spice the game up. Despite all its faults, at the end of the day, it is still Kerbal Space Program, which is incredibly fun and rewarding to play. Even better is the fact that the graphics and sound design in this game are sublime, offering a refreshing shakeup that even mods of the first game can’t quite achieve. At its current moment, I suggest sticking with the first game, as KSP 2 currently doesn’t offer much that its predecessor doesn’t have (in fact KSP 1 has more things in a few areas such as robotics). But later down the line, I think this game will be able to emerge from the shadow it’s stuck in and forge its own path to success.