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Eve Online

Fenris Creations

Eve Online

EVE Online is a free MMORPG sci-fi strategy game where you can embark on your own unique space adventure. EVE's open world MMORPG sandbox, renowned among online space games, lets you choose your own path and engage in combat, exploration, industry and much more.

Released
6 May 2003
Developer
Fenris Creations
Publisher
THQ
Engine
CARBON Engine
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric · First person · Third person
Age rating
PEGI 12 · ESRB T
Metacritic
88/100
Steam recommendations
7,792
Platforms
Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac
Genres
Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy
Also known as
EVE
Estimated owners
2,000,000–5,000,000 (est.)
78
Player rating
79
Critic rating
105
Ratings counted
73.4%
Steam reviews
22
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The story

Set more than 21,000 years in the future, the background story of Eve Online explains that humanity, having used up most of Earth's resources through centuries of explosive population growth, began colonizing the rest of the Milky Way. As on Earth, this expansion also led to competition and fighting over available resources, but everything changed with the discovery of a natural wormhole leading to an unexplored galaxy subsequently dubbed "New Eden." Dozens of colonies were founded, and a structure, a gate of sorts (which bears the inscription "EVE" on the New Eden side), was built to stabilize the wormhole that linked the colonies of New Eden with the rest of human civilization. However, when the wormhole unexpectedly collapsed, it destroyed the gate as well as the connection between the colonies of New Eden and the Milky Way. Cut off from the rest of humanity and supplies from Earth, the colonies of New Eden were left starving and disconnected from one another; many died out entirely. Over the millennia the descendants of the surviving colonists managed to rebuild their own societies, but by this time the memories and knowledge of humanity's origins, of Earth and the Milky Way galaxy, as well as the history of the settling of New Eden, was lost; what little information that survived transmission over the generations was misunderstood, lost in translation, and/or consigned to mythology. Five major distinct societies rose to prominence from the surviving colonies, each growing into interstellar spaceflight-capable civilizations. The states based around these societies make up the five major factions in Eve Online: the Amarr Empire, the Caldari State, the Gallente Federation, the Minmatar Republic and the Jove Directorate.

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Reviews and languages

73.4% of 39,220 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Mostly Positive”.

11 languages in the interface, 10 of them with full voice acting. English is supported, with full voice acting.

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Platform releases

PC (Microsoft Windows)
6 May 2003
Linux
6 November 2007
Mac
6 November 2007

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