So I've played this in many iterations since it came out, and feel like it has gotten better with their updates, with more stuff to do and a greater variety of interesting things to view. It is genuinely fun to fly around, for some amount of time to collect materials, play with base building stuff and just view some beautiful and baffling worlds. It is not a great game in terms of its progression and mission hooks, as you get to see some extra interesting stuff, but not much that makes it worth it. the VR mode, while reducing the visuals is still an extra positive feature that play to strengths of the game's exploration, flying, and chill vibes(though it's a little wonkier to control on index).

I do plan on returning to this, and I will absolutely be flying around but as far as the core "game" parts instead of interplanetary nature walk, I'm pretty done with it.