30 mins trying to get the game to run, crazy. Not even worth refunding at the price, serves as a good reminder of why Steam shouldn't sell games that require 3rd party software.

Love the game, hate the EA Launcher that makes the game buggy as heck.

If it wasn't for this the game would probably be fun to play, as it is the Launcher was making the game too buggy to actually tolerate.

I'm going to have to write off any EA games from now on.

Honestly I was pretty skeptical of this game after reading how much hate it got online, but when the price for entry was only $5… Well what the heck!

Is Mass Effect: Andromeda a fantastic game? Probably not. Is it a lot of fun in a cool new frontier of the Mass Effect universe? Yes! The game has issues, the facial animations are frankly awful and some of the UI/UX choices are a pain in the rear. However there is a lot of good here, the combat is smooth and the environmental design is stunning. Sadly we never got to see the game at its full potential, DLC plans were scrapped and the game was essentially abandoned. But with that said this is a very fun game even before we look at the currently discounted price and I really do hope we get to see an Andromeda 2 one day to fully do the Helius Cluster justice.

TLDR, this game is fun and best of all right now it’s cheap as a box of hot chips!

EA launcher is a plague upon civilisation, I won't be buying another EA game again.

Idk man someone said "Maturing is realizing this game is actually good" in a review I saw recently and I'm incline to agree. I'm sure it was a dumpster fire on launch, saw the videos people were releasing at the time of it, with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ facial animations and what not, but it's pretty damn solid 8 hours in now. I honestly think this game would have been much better received if they hadn't launched it as buggy as they did. Damn shame really. I don't think the characters are as memorable as the OG cast but, you gotta consider how high of a bar that is to reach (Garrus, Wrex, Zaeed, Jack, and Tali especially)...The characters are pretty likeable on their own, so far Liam and Vetra are easily my favorites. the graphics are pretty damn gorgeous, and the combat is EASILY better than the OG trilogy. Anyone who says that the combat in this game is bad is either bad faith or has rose tinted glasses on...Or, really, it might just not be their groove, but I would be shocked to meet someone who simply just did not gel with that aspect of
the game, the combat and graphics are arguably this game's strong points.

Good Game. While definitely not on the same level as the original trilogy, this game still has some things going for it.
The only thing that bothered me the most was the fact that there are lots of loading screens just to get from one planet to another for a single 'talk to this npc' quests.
Story was pretty okay.
Hope the next Mass Effect will have some of the qualities of this game while still following a story connected to the OG trilogy
7/10

Would not recommend to Keyboard and Mouse players.
Game seems interesting but the Nomad controls are horrific with the WASD keys, just unusable.
Too bad BioWare abandoned the Keyboard and Mouse support.

After replaying the trilogy after not having touched it for so long, I decided to try out Andromeda (helped it was on sale for $5).

Andromeda is a frustrating game to put it mildly. Its biggest failings I argue lie in its dull open world, poor quest design and mediocre storytelling.
The open world is unbelievably not engaging. There is no real reason to explore anything as you will only be rewarded with finding junk that is meant to be sold to a vendor or stumble upon the most boring fetch quest you can imagine.

The quest design is horrible. From main story missions to random tasks, you will find yourself constantly going from one location to another hoping SAM or some NPC will finally inform you that you scanned enough junk or datapads to progress. A quest design as simple as find something at A and then head to B is now structured as go to A then B then C then D then E and now you can head to F to complete the quest. This is made worse with missions that span multiple planets as you will get stuck watching multiple loading screens.

The story fails in multiple ways. I feel the quippy light-hearted tone is inappropriate in relation the game’s dual plot of exploration/colonization and fighting the genocidal Kett. The plot is also often non-sensical and contrived with SAM and the Remnant being at the centre of these issues.

People praise the combat and while understandable to a degree, I feel you have to hyperfocus on the movement options introduced in ME:A to really praise it. For starters, you no longer have control of your squad-mate’s abilities. Your squad feels superfluous, and I argue are only their as it was a staple of the previous games. Another issue is the restriction of only using three powers. The enemy design is also lacking compared previous games like ME3. Cerebus and the Reaper forces were far more interesting to engage than the Kett/Remant/ Roekaar factions in Andromeda.

I don’t think Andromeda is irredeemable, but the good parts are buried under a miserable gameplay experience and an overall poor story.

The internet really messed up with this one. This is actually a pretty great game but unfortunately we will never know where the story was going because it was cancelled by the mob who couldn't get over it not being Shepherd related.

GAMEPLAY: Fantastic, super fluid and fun. My only complaint is even though there's lots of powers/build options, at the end of the day you're primarily doing the same thing of priming and detonating whichever powers you choose. The gameplay is going to depend whether or not you want to run and gun, snipe, power blast, or melee (or all the above) as your preferred combat style. It's all pretty fun tbh. Some of the maps are a little bloated with generic side quests but it's not as bad as other popular games that have come out since.

STORY: The major complaint I always hear is how the story is mid and wasn't a direct sequel to ME3. This is an incorrect reddit response. The story might look pretty mid on surface level , especially if you skip a lot of the side content and don't like to read datapads and emails etc.. because there was a brilliant mystery unfolding that we'll never get to know about regarding Cerberus's involvement with the initiative , the murder of jien garson, the evolution of the AI's , and the similarities between the collectors and the Kett and what their involvement with the reapers might've been before the events of ME3. So I'm really disappointed in the internet's influence over having that horrid take that the story wasn't there. It was very clear this game was meant to set up a new trilogy not be a standalone game.

GRAPHICS: The Graphics for it's era were actually pretty good. And lots of good looking aesthetics, HOWEVER.. it was the faces and facial animations that really did this game in and led to people bandwagoning negativity on it. At launch the facial animations were horrendous, and even after fixes they're still not great but passable now. But the backlash was way overblown and it's not as bad as people make it out. You can always put your helmet on.

Anyway, if you're a mass effect fan or looking for a great sci fi rpg shooter this is a great choice especially on sale. I had way more fun with this one than I did with Starfield, but that's not saying much.

Forces you to install the Ea app to play your single player game you bought through steam, and you're required to run it in the background while playing.

The only positive thing I can say about this game is that it is no longer the worst game bioware has released.