Congrats ROCKFISH Games for winning the "Best German Game" category 2024! Wish I had the hardware to run it but one day... Looking forward to it! :)

What hardware you got?

The game surely got some demand for muscles, as Everspace is now even involving Lumen, a rather effective Raytracing technology, in space usually working best on dark and metal surfaces. Instead of the "old school" baked lighting Lumen is now done in real time and can adapt more accurate to changes in the environment.

However... no one need a 4090 or other "very wild hardware"... in my experience i still have a sufficient performance using my old 3090 TI GPU... and most likely a 7800 XT or 4070 Super GPU might as well do the job and is nowadays a "midrange"-hardware.

At 1080 P those midrange GPUs surely will do great but at 4k a 3090 TI or above is showing more muscles... which comes at a cost.

On the PS5 i think using the old UE 4 engine it was pretty smooth but for UE 5.3 in order to still work smooth a PS5 Pro can be useful. As we all know, the PS5 Pro is most likely arriving by end of this year, so even console users could still enjoy great performance in the near future.

On XBox... gamers are rather out of luck... i do not recommend it. Best 2 systems are either PC (mid range at least) on GoG/Steam or PS5 (as soon as PS5 Pro arriving).

Perhaps Rockfish even may already have a PS5 Pro dev kit... but this is probably a secret (NDA-agreements and such... Sony is very strict).

Aaah, let's just say this 'ol here setup of mine has issues of running the first part without FPS collapsing more often than I'd like to admit... xD