I picked up EGS years ago and I'm just starting to play it. Right now I'm just gathering resources but I don't know what my next steps are supposed to be as far as base or vehicle building goes. NMS looks interesting as well and it's half off on GOG for the next few days.
Does anyone have any experience with these games?
I've played both.
Empyrion I've played about 10 hours, it just hasn't hooked me. It has an interesting building engine, and the way all of the systems work together with power and processing. It can be a little janky at times. If one really wanted to get into it you could probably build some cool things. But I'm not sure there's much to do with the cool thing you built.
I've played a fair amount of NMS, I stuck with it from the Kickstarter, even after they were doing refunds. I never seem to get very far though. A new major update will come out, I'll start a new game, play for 5-10 hours, then get distracted and not come back to it. They keep adding more to the game, so I think there's plenty of entertainment to be had.
I don't have anything against either game, I wouldn't put them in the top of my list, they're both just OK.
I'll probably buy Light No Fire, the next game from the NMS guys, because I like the studio and want to see what they do with that.