Evochron Legacy

Evochron Legacy is a freeform space flight simulation set in a vast, interconnected universe. You pilot and manage a spacecraft, choosing your own role and activities across combat, trade, exploration and survival. There is no story or character path to follow: your decisions shape your reputation, wealth, progress and ranking, and you can change your goals at any point.

Choose your objectives

You can take contracts for set pay or pursue your own objectives, choosing where to fly and how much risk to take. Activities include buying and trading, spying, racing, escorting, rescuing, delivering cargo, responding to distress calls, mining, exploring shipwrecks and data drives, discovering uncharted systems, clearing asteroids, cleaning solar equipment, crafting equipment and weapons, hiring and managing crew, building stations and cities, and designing your ship for different roles. You can also fight as a civilian mercenary in an ongoing battle between human factions or take on an alien threat in designated war zones, where intense battles can provide access to powerful military hardware. Peaceful pursuits are also available.

Pilot and manage your ship

You control your spacecraft in space, during combat and while descending to planets. Travel long distances with space-folding point-to-point jump drives, then reach local objectives through nearby waypoints. Menus and ship systems are accessible directly from the cockpit with minimal layers, keeping you in control of your ship virtually all the time.

The flight model uses zero-gravity inertia, with three axes of rotation and three axes of directional control. An inertial dampening system helps manage flight in space, atmospheres and gravity fields; the physics also account for mass, including cargo, thrust and vector calculations. You manage heat, shields and energy, select weapons across three classes, and can use automatic or manual aiming, stealth devices, countermeasures and subsystem targeting. Combat instruments include 2D and 3D radar, target scanning, six velocity gauges, flight-path markers, a compass and a pitch ladder. You can configure detailed ship designs and choose variable input options.

Explore the universe

The universe has no required jump gates or trade lanes, and you can travel virtually anywhere without in-game loading screens or cut-scene interruptions. Fly between planets, stars and systems, descend through planetary atmospheres to land at city trade stations, mine materials or search for hidden items. Nebula clouds can provide sensor cover, and massive asteroid caves can offer protection.

Plan around changing events

A news console reports quadrant-wide developments, including commodity price changes, shifts in territory, changes to economic and technology levels, building operations and attacks on stations. You can use this information to plan trade routes, look for areas with higher-tech equipment and weapons, or respond when an allied faction is losing ground. You can also help defend its space and rebuild station or city resources.

Quests and factions

The quest menu lets you manage multiple single-player quests, activate one when and where you choose, and resume each from where you left off. Quests do not depend on contracts, and their branching structures can include both winning and losing paths.

In single player, you choose either the Alliance (ALC) or Federation (FDN) when starting a profile. In multiplayer, you can choose either faction temporarily when joining a game. Your faction determines which systems are friendly or hostile; players can team up in the same faction or join opposing factions for PvP battles and competition. Territory control changes through ship destruction that alters a faction’s presence in a region.

Multiplayer and controls

The faction system provides a shared territory and reputation structure across the Evochron quadrant. For flight controls, the game supports keyboard, mouse, gamepad and joystick, with dedicated modes for each input type. Its Global Control System adapts device signals to a unified flight-control setup and supports up to 10 simultaneous control devices. TrackIR support lets you control the cockpit viewpoint with six degrees of movement.