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Pilot a customizable starship across New Eden, exploring, mining, trading, building, and fighting in a player-shaped universe.
Released 15 Dec 2010
Scan Wormhole Sites
Build Player Markets
Fit Modular Starships
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.
Developed by Fenris Creations · Published by Fenris Creations
In EVE Online, you take the role of a capsuleer flying a starship through New Eden, a galaxy of thousands of star systems. You choose your own direction in a shared sandbox shaped by players rather than a fixed sequence of story missions.
You can scan for relics and hidden sites, travel through wormholes, mine resources, run missions, manufacture goods, trade, or fight. Combat ranges from encounters with NPCs to player conflicts involving corporations and large fleets.
Ships can be fitted with different modules and components for specialized roles, while character skills unlock further options over time. Mining, production, hauling, and trading feed into a player-driven economy, and ships and cargo can be lost in combat.
Players who praise EVE Online often value the freedom to pursue different roles and the depth of its player-driven economy, politics, and industry. Some describe ship losses and fleet battles as especially tense and rewarding because actions have lasting consequences. The supplied reviews are sharply divided, with many others criticizing the learning curve, risks to new players, multiboxing, and subscription limits.
EVE Online is a vast, player-driven MMO where your choices are everything.
Enter New Eden, a galaxy of over 7,000 star systems where players craft the economy, lead massive corporations, and build lasting legacies, friendships, and alliances that transform the game world. Whether you’re chasing combat, wealth, knowledge, or power, EVE Online offers the means to live your legend.
Play for free as an Alpha clone, or unlock every ship and faster progression as Omega.
Chart the unknown. Scan ancient relics, uncover lost technologies, and navigate wormholes in search of rare loot and hidden threats.
Join legendary, Guinness World Record setting fleet battles or carve out a reputation as a soldier of fortune. EVE’s wars are fought by real players, and remembered forever.
From mining and manufacturing to trading and mission-running, EVE Online offers deep PvE systems for rich rewards and progression at your own pace.
Fly any of over 350 starships, and customize them with endless options for different modules, components, and SKINs to make your ship unique to you.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game on a single shared server in a persistent universe. It supports both online PvP and online co-op, with gameplay ranging from solo activity to corporations, alliances, fleets, and battles involving 1,000+ players. The world and economy are heavily player-driven, and player groups can control territory and shape politics. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 22 listed on Steam |
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| AI disclosure | Aura Guidance system delivers generated knowledge based on real Rookie Help questions and answers. |
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| Metacritic | 88/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
